01	The Blood of Kingu						05:45
	02	Son of the Sun						05:35
	03	The Khlysti Evangelist						05:38
	04	Dark Venus Persephone						04:02
	05	Kali Yuga Part1						03:27
	06	Kali Yuga Part2						05:48
	07	The Wondrous World of Punt						07:19
	08	Melek Taus						05:31
	09	Call of Dagon						04:14
	10	Sirius B						03:43
	11	Voyage of Gurdjieff (The Fourth Way)						05:56

* Kristian Niemann: Acoustic guitar, Solo and rhythm electric guitars, Mandolin on The Wondrous World of Punt
* Johan Niemann: Bass, Mandolin on The Wondrous World of Punt
* Christofer Johnsson: Guitar, Lead vocals on Typhon and Three ships of Berik - Part 1: Calling to Arms and Fighting the Battle, Keyboards on An Arrow from the Sun and Feuer Overtu"re/Prometheus Entfesselt, Mandolin on The Wondrous World of Punt
* Richard Evensand: Drums, Gong on Kali Yuga part 2 (Guest)
* Piotr Wawrzeniuk: Lead vocals on Lemuria, The Dreams of Swedenborg, Feuer Overtu"re/Prometheus Entfesselt, Dark Venus Persephone, Kali Yuga part 1 and Melek Taus
* Steen Rasmussen: Mellotron on Lemuria, Hammond organ (Guest)
* Lars Somod Jensen: Church organ on The Wondrous World of Punt (Guest)
* Mats Leve'n: Lead vocals on Uthark Runa, Abraxas, Blood of Kingu, The Khlysti Evangelist and Kali Yuga part 2 (Guest)
* Jens Nyborg: Prima Balalaika 1, Prima Domra, Alto Domra (Guest)
* Sven Lindblad: Prima Balalaika 2 (Guest)
* Kavi Bjo"rkqvist: Prima Balalaika 3 (Guest)
* Peter Mossman: Narrator on Lemuria (Guest)


*
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra:
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Violin I:
Bohumil Kotmel
Frantis(ek S(ilar
Lucie S(vehlova'
Toma's( Barinka
Libor Kanka
Jan Dudek
Jirka S(koda
Ludmila Mra'ckova'
Roman Konecny'
Richard Vala's(ek
Miroslav S(te'pa'n
Emanuel Ranny'
Ludvi'k Sklena'r
S(a'rka Dranca'kova'
Jan Vlcek
Jan Dramota
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Violin II:
Jolana Mazalova'
Filip Himmer
Pavel Kutman
Pavel Krz(anovsky'
Jiri' Kohoutek
Marke'ta Kohoutova'
Marie Duorska'
Vlastimil Zeman
Josef Uycmytil
Martin Kalista
Ladislava Micha'lkova'
Petr S(tajner
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Viola:
Zoene'k Zindel
Petr Klas
Jana S(islerova'
Jan Stippl
Ve'ra Binarova'
Jan Kratina
Milan Soucek
Marina Martincova'
Irena Stra'nska'
Va'clav Benda
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Cello:
Milos( Va'vra
Radek Schorovsky'
Milada Stras(ilova'
Radek S(irc
Petr Mali's(ek
Jiri' Pri'moda
David Haveli'k
Olga Bi'lkova'
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Double Bass (4 and 5 string):
Jiri' Ci'sar
Stanislav Zoul
Jan Raza'k
Robin Marek
Jan Dudek
Martin Ci'sar
Rudolf Andrs(
Jindra Schulmmann
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Flute:
Radomi'r Pivoda
Va'clav Sy'kora
o
Oboe:
Jitka Toms(i'ckova'
Ivan Orci'gr
o
Basson:
Luka's( Kori'nek
Svatopluk Cech
o
Piano and Harpsichord:
Jaroslava Elia'sova'
o
Horn:
Jiri' Lisy'
Petr Duda
Miroslav Kubi'cek
Lubomi'r Krystli'k
Petra Cerma'kova'
Frantis(ek Pok
Toma's( Secky'
Jaroslav Secky'
o
Wagner tuba:
Jiri' Lisy'
Miroslav Kubi'cek
Frantis(ek Pok
Jaroslav Secky'
o
Trombones (Bass, tenor and alt):
Ales( Vopelka
Frantis(ek Fejgi
Jiri' Odcma'rel
o
Timpani:
Jiri' Lisy'
Miroslav Kubi'cek
Frantis(ek Pok
Jaroslav Secky'
o
Ku"hn mixed Choir Soprano:
Petra Erlebachova'
Miroslava Da'mlova'
Pavli'na Plechatova'
Ruz(ena Hejna'
Marke'ta Lajnerova'
Slave'na Dra's(ilova'
Ilona Vzskocilova'
Jitka Hurti'kova'
Milena Holeckova'
Dana Langerova'
Lenka Pecharova'
Hana Cervenkova'
Jana S(ulcova'
Renata Va'chova'
Jana Veverkova'
Ba'ra Kuba'tova'
Ve'ra Pcibylova'
Blanka Le'blova'
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Ku"hn mixed Choir Alt:
Ivana Franca'nova'
Veronika S(indelova'
Zdenka Gailova'
Daniela Filova'
Marie Dolez(alova'
Ruz(ena Pelcova'
Eva Kroftova'
Marie Jakoubkova'
Zdenka Fis(erova'
Eva Walterova'
Karolina Vocadlova'
Jana Dra'bkova'
Martina Strakova'
Lenka Kucelova'
Veronika Ticha'
Eva Zbytovska'
Dana Mikulejska'
Szlva S(ra'mkova'
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Ku"hn mixed Choir Tenor:
Zdene'k Vykopal
Petr Jindra
Zdene'k Mas(ek
Jaroslav Toma'nek
Vladimi'r Rozkos(ny'
Zbyne'k Valenta
Jiri' Ska'la
Marek Vorli'cek
|van Dibli'k
Ivan Loula
Toma's( Mikulecky'
Vladima'r Nacha'zel
Jiri' Los
Jiri' Dolejs(i'
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Ku"hn mixed Choir Bass:
Milan Dobia's(
Vladimi'r S(tumpf
Frantis(ek Krupala
Jaromi'r Be'lor
Martin Stolbenko
Jan Kratina
Petr Pribyl
Rudolf Hesvadba
Petr Tome's
Bohuslav Rattay
Karel Zochr
Jiri' Hannsmann
Lubos( Klanci'k
Milan Kottas
Michael Mergl
Pavel Mesany
Frantis(ek Mizerovsky'
Jan Moravel
Jiri' Uherek

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Classical soloists:
o Jitka Toms(i'ckova': Solo oboe
o Petra Cerma'kova': Solo horn

*
Classical vocal soloists:
o Anna-Maria Krawe: Soprano on Typhon, An Arrow from the Sun, Abraxas, Son of the Sun, Dark Venus Persephone, The Wondrous World of Punt, Melek Taus and Call of Dagon
o Jana Bi'nova'-Koucka': Soprano on The Dreams of Swedenborg, The Khlysti Evangelist and Kali Yuga part 1
o Karoli'na Vocadlova': Alt on The Dreams of Swedenborg
o Ulrika Skarby: Alt on Lemuria, An Arrow from the Sun, Son of the Sun, Dark Venus Persephone and Melek Taus
o Toma's( Cerny': Tenor on Typhon, The Khlysti Evangelist, Kali Yuga part 1, The Wondrous World of Punt and The Voyage of Gurdjieff
o Jaromi'r Be'lor: Bass on The Wondrous World of Punt
o Michael Schmidberger: Bass on Typhon, An Arrow from the Sun, Feuer Overtu"re/Prometheus Entfesselt and Dark Venus Persephone


Comments from Chris
Right after Deggial I had ideas for a new album, but one day I woke up and felt I needed to make a Nordic concept album for some reason. Secret of the Runes was then written more or less in 2 months; however, the 7-8 songs for this original follow-up to Deggial were put on ice for the time being.

After finishing the world tour for Secret of the Runes, making Live in Midga*rd, recording a Demonoid album, and having a small vacation, those 7-8 songs had grown to 55 songs and pieces that could be developed into songs. This was partly due to my own productiveness and also because Kristian had become well synchronized with his song writing, delivering both complete songs and parts that I could put together with my ideas into songs (and the other way around too) – not to forget Johan, who had also written a bunch of songs.

We went through the songs and realized that we had enough good material for three albums. Recording one after the other, promoting, and touring each one separately would have taken several years and would have been a bad idea; and being so productive, we would have had another 55 songs waiting when we finally came to the end of it.

Recording all three at once would have been too much work on our shoulders, so we made a compromise and recorded two at once for a simultaneous release and saved songs for the third one. The way of dividing the songs was to take the more progressive songs for the future third album, the songs that were more straightforward and heavy metal inspired to Sirius B, and then the rest were put on Lemuria (thus making it the most diverse of these 3 albums). However, after recording the two albums we swapped a few of the songs between the albums, which made them slightly more similar to each other but also more varied in themselves.

These albums had 171 people participating in the recordings and the huge orchestra and choir were very different sounding compared to the more close and intimate sound created on the previous album, Secret of the Runes.

Other info
All drums, bass, guitars, balalaikas, domras, mandolins, rock/metal vocals and most of the opera soloists were recorded at the Modern Art Studio, Stockholm (April-July and September 2003). Engineered by Sami Karppinen. Assistance engineering by Kristian Niemann.
Orchestra, choir and additional opera soloists were recorded at Smecky Studio, Prague, Czech Republic during September 2003. Egineered by Jan Holzner. Assistants: Michael Hradisky and Zdene'k Pekare'k.
The mixing and the recordings of hammond organs, mellotrone and narration were done during September/October 2004 at Sun Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark. Engineering and mixing by Lars Nissen. Assistance engineering by Andreas Hviid.
Produced by Therion and Lars Nissen.
All classical and choral arrangements by Christofer Johnsson.
Cover and layout by Thomas Ewerhard.
Orchestra was recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (see individual credits above) and was conducted by Adam and Mario Klemens.
The choir was recorded with the Ku"hn Mixed Choir (see individual credits above) and was conducted by Mario Klemens.