In this week we will focus on the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane as a central part in religion.

Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane… something sacred shows itself to us… something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural “profane” world. Mircea Eliade – “The Sacred and the Profane : The Nature of Religion: The Significance of Religious Myth, Symbolism, and Ritual within Life and Culture” (1961),

In the right we have a representation of the painting Amor Sacro e Amor Profano by the Italian painter Titian. The audio and playlist are as following:

1. Patrick & Thomas Demenga – Alexander Knaifel – Lux aeterna (Lux aeterna)
2. Raison D’être – Without the Shedding there is no Forgiveness (The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice)
3. Coph Nia – To Fix The Shadow (Shape Shifter)
4. Alma Púrpura – Lux in Tenebris (Post-Mortem 3)
5. Coph Nia – Sanctus (That Which Remains)
6. Krzysztof Penderecki – A Polish Requiem – Lux aeterna (A Polish Requiem)
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Lacrimosa (Requiem in D Minor K626 )
8. Arvo Pärt – Bogoroditse Djevo (I am the True Vine)
9. Aesma Daeva – Sanctus (Here Lies One Whose Name Was Written in the Water)
10. The Soil Bleeds Black – Fire Of The Sacred Soul (Alchemie)
11. Scivias – Fiat Lux (Codreanu Fidelis Legio)
12. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Hell Is Where the Heart Is – The Gospel of Tomas (Satyriasis, Somewhere Between Equilibrium & Nihilism)
13. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – mary dances in the shadow the holiest of harlots (Cocktails Carnage Crucifixion)
14. Dark Sanctuary – De Lumiere Et D ‘obscurite (De Lumiere Et D’Obscurite)
15. Atrium Animae – Angelum Abyssi (Dies Irae)
16. Lustmord – Uterance (Paradise Disowned)
17. Lustmord – Goetia (The Word As Power)
18. Vladimír Hirsch – Ecce Crux (Exorcisms)
19. Wojciech Kilar – The Ring Of Fire (Bram Stoker’s Dracula)
20. Wojciech Kilar – Ascension (Bram Stoker’s Dracula)

Between Birds of Prey #116 – The Sacred and the Profane.mp3

Between Birds of Prey #116 – The Sacred and the Profane.cue