Ptolemaea

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'Ptolemaea', originally titled 'Sempervirens', is the ninth track of Ethel Cain's debut album, "Preacher’s Daughter". In the album's narrative, under the influence of Isaiah’s drugs, Ethel begins to hallucinate. She confronts the darkness. The name "Ptolemaea" is based on one of the nine circles of Hell, Cocytus (or Treachery) from "Dante's Inferno", the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem "Divine Comedy". It is one of the regions of the circle

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