Umbilicus Maris

about this album

Umbilicus Maris was released on the Mystery Sea label in early 2007. The track titles are a mixture of Norse kennings and excerpts from Platonist hymns; being somewhat indebted to the work of Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend. The album's artwork includes the following quote from Paulus Diaconus' Historia gentis Langobardorum, which speaks to the themes of the album: Not very far from this shore of which we have spoken, towards the western side, on which the ocean main lies open without end, is that very deep abyss of waters which we call 'the navel of the sea'. It is said twice a day to suck the waves into itself and spew them out again." In their press release, Mystery Sea said: On "umbilicus maris", Gydja drags us along a quest for a lost mythic world beyond frontier... After a dazed drift in a foggy mangrove, we reach an unmapped region of concentric superimposing circles & endless ripples preparing us for a sheer descent into murky waters... adorning the dive, huge, drowned thousand years stones seem to betray an ancient ceremony, a passage through Time to a supreme Essence... Small lights flicker in the cold current, and thoughts snake along the moss walls whispering lunar tales... immersed in this strange universe, we grow in constant mutation at the mercy of the waves towards a better Self... User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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