Daimon - The Divine Twilight of Late Antiquity - Ike Vil

Daimon is a multi-causal description of the last struggle between the old mysteries and Christianity searching for its form, the divine darkness of late antiquity. Based on a previously unknown manuscript, the story of Iphicles the Cynic is the first part of the story of the Roman emperor Julian.

"The mystical cosmology of antiquity comes to life bright and alive, with an inspiring note, gritty, full of precise details and humorous delights."
– AW as Yrja

"Ike Vili's wordy swagger is once again sophisticated in those unfermented raven lands of literature, from which mortals only whisper fearfully as the night falls. HC SVNT DRACONES !”
- Ville Valo

There was a low hum. I thought the sound was the rustling of leaves, but there wasn't even a breath of wind in the sweltering heat of midsummer. The tall grass of the wetland behind the road leading to Argentoratum did not wave, the willows and black poplars stood silently on the hill in front of us. The Rheinus flowed soundlessly somewhere behind the hill.
The hum turned into a rising and falling noise and then erupted into an animal scream.

The forest came alive and attacked us. Moles, hares, martens, foxes, moose, wolves and bears emerged from the mosses and wetlands as if bewitched. The naked seers and all-runas stepped out from the willows on the hill and violently began to sing their war song, hissing and hissing. They cheered on the Alemannic warriors clad in beast skins, who, like clay, emerged from under their wooden shields camouflaged with moss and ferns, wiped the mud from the images of gods representing their phratry's sacred animals, grabbed their swords, spears and machetes and rushed like a thousand-headed tidal wave towards our shields.