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Orphic Hymn by Jóhann Jóhannsson https://open.spotify.com/track/2V65m1AwTWHgLcdsyhYZNU?si=sAX2UJzBS3y2UK19z0T0XA …

Beautiful. The choir is singing from Book XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, verses 61 – 66. I did latin at school, but I can't translate the verse for shit (Sorry Miss. Constantine). Here is the story, because why not:

Orpheus' wife, Eurydice, dies from a snake bite. Orpheus goes to Hades to ask for her life back, which is granted as long as he doesn't look back at her until they are out of the underworld. He can't help himself - because she's smoking hot - so Eurydice has to stay dead.

Jóhannsson's song joins the Metamorphoses at the point where Orpheus is killed by women from the cult of Dionysus. One way or another, they tear Orpheus' body apart because he won't fulfil their desire and have sex with them; he was too busy fucking boys and singing to Apollo.