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Attis at Rest

from Deis Sanguinus by Without History

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Only a few scraps are known about the Gallae's rituals in private, but looking back at our trans sisters centuries ago we can begin to imagine how they might have felt.

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Blood dries on cool skin

Wounds heal in evening chill

Flesh burns in sacred fire

Attis, unmanned, lies in wait
Uncorrupted in the glade too late
To take a husband’s vow at mortal demand
Now she rests unseeing at Cybele’s command

The pine bough spattered with the sacred blood
Of the soft skinned men who know we should
Be something different, something holy,
Something pressed to service of the
Goddess who will let us be
The women that we need to be
I’ll gladly give my worthless balls
To be reborn and sanctified in blood

Sap quickens
Blood flows
Flesh withers
In rites untold
Attis’ rest will reach its end
Attis’ flesh will rise again

And she will succour us
She will usher us
Below the ground,
Into the darkness
Waiting for a rush of crimson
To wash us clean
And make us whole
And let us be reborn in Attis’ love

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from Deis Sanguinus, released June 11, 2021

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Without History Wales, UK

Without History is one trans girl, her bass guitars and her looper. Exploring trans history through neofolk and post punk inspired music these songs try to imagine the lives of our trans ancestors in all their messy queer detail.

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