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| − | * '''Hydrogen, helium and lithium''' are the three elements produced in appreciable quantities by '''Big Bang nucleosynthesis''' in the first minutes of the universe. To append '''Leviathan''' — the biblical sea-monster of Job 41, Psalm 74 and Isaiah 27:1, a creature of primordial chaos that is subdued by God at the creation and again at the end of days — is to collapse the beginning of physical cosmology into mythic theology.
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| − | * In Kabbalah and Christian exegesis, Leviathan is the chaos of the deep before the Spirit moves on the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). The title aligns creation's first three chemical elements with the dragon that inhabits the void.
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| − | * The runtime — '''4:44''' — is a common numerological "angel number" in contemporary mysticism, read as divine reassurance or as guarded transition. For BoC's numerological tradition see ''[[Geogaddi]]'''s '''66:06''' and "[[1969]]".
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| | == Samples / Lyrics == | | == Samples / Lyrics == |