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An important factor in how Black Ships Ate The Sky attained its final form was Tibet's obsessive study of the Biblical optic language,wich relates to both Ancient Greek and Egyptian.''Sometimes things just grab me with extreme force and i lose myself,'' he explains.''I've had a vague interest in Coptic and other Biblical languages for several years.I was reading the Gospel of Thomas and i came to the line,'Jesus said,Lift up a stone and ia m there.'And i had a bolt of electricity down my back.I just thought,'I've got to read that in Coptic,to try to fully understand what it means'.''He's keen,however to stress tha the album should not be taken as a kind of Tales from Coptic Oceans.
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