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Official video for 'Orath'. Taken from 'Raya’, the debut full length album of Pothamus (out December 4th through Consouling Agency). Get 'Raya' at: 'Orath' is the opening chapter of ‘Raya’. In its most prompt interpretation 'Orath' represents the genesis of the Earth, portraying the primary creation within the band’s own mythology. Rather than a cosmogonic myth in which the earth is created ‘ex nihilo’, Orath expresses the coming-into-being of earthly matter as a process of transformation: a continual development of what already exists. On ‘Orath’ Pothamus contemplates the trajectory of nature as cyclical and eternal, rather than linear. As nature dies when winter emerges, it carries the seeds of spring in its demise. New life feeds on death in a cycle that repeats itself eternally, without beginning or end, necessitating the destruction of that which came before. The band recognized this repetitive reoccurren
