In an interview with
Global Domination, Johnsson said that the album title is a reference to the twin star to the ordinary Sirius A. The album makes references to ancient culture and mythology: •
Kingu was a monster in
Sumerian mythology. According to the
Enûma Elish, all human beings were created from his blood after he was killed by
Marduk. •
Son of the Sun (Egyptian hieroglyphs: 𓅭𓇳, “Son of
Ra”) was the title of
Pharaoh Akhenaten, who preferred to worship
Aton, god of the Sun, to the detriment of all other gods. His reign was unsuccessful, and people believed that the other forsaken gods had cursed him. •
Khlysti was a controversial Christian sect in Russia.
Grigory Rasputin, the major character of the song, is believed to have been a member. •
Persephone is the wife of
Hades, the god of the dead in
Greek mythology. •
Kali Yuga in
Hinduism is a dark age of suffering, the final era before the end of the world. •
Land of Punt was a mysterious lost kingdom in ancient east Africa. •
Melek Taus is the supreme deity of the
Yazidi, commonly depicted in the form of a
peacock. •
Dagon is an ancient
Semitic god of the sea. He appears in many
H. P. Lovecraft books of
Cthulhu mythos. •
Georgy Gurdzhiev was an Armenian mystic philosopher and traveller, an expert in Yazidi culture. ==Personnel==