The Emerald Hymnal / 緑の賛美歌

The Emerald Hymnal is a collection of passionate love songs, inspired by many different relationships. They form a song cycle akin to Dante's Purgatorio, reaching closer to Paradise with every song.

The variety in this songbook is a stark contrast to the monolithic sorrow of The Black Hymnal. The contents of The Emerald Hymnal were also written over the course of seven years (2017-2024).

These songs deal with long-distance relationships, traveling to unknown worlds, intense rivalries, love triangles, retribution, closure, moving on from grief, falling in love again, and more. The songs re-approach the mythos of the first Hymnal from a more critical angle, having buried the characters of the first book for a new cast.

Some of the recurring themes explored are: how language affects reality, how technology affects relationships, the limitations of language, the power of belief, the fine line between friends and enemies, alchemical symbolism, wintry landscapes, and a plethora of subtle religious motifs and metaphors.

These songs should make sense to anyone PG-13 or older. The only risqué language in the whole book is probably the provocative title of the second song, "Angelsex". The book's actual subject matter is rather innocent and restrained, in my opinion. It is a hymnal, after all.

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There are 33 songs total.

Yukinohara
Angelsex
Inuit
“Red is like the sound of a trumpet”
Crimes of Passion
8,908 Miles
Analemma
Encrypted Feelings
Leaving You
The Priestess
Reversal of Fortunes
Katana
The Ocean
The Embers
The Green Lion
Lilith
Forever is a Long Time
Divine Lightning
Lailah
Song of the Siren
Via Dolorosa
Spiders
Akai Ito (The Red Thread)
Event Horizon of a Broken Heart
The Return of the King
Love is a Drug
The Mystic
SiniSTAR
Agonies & Ecstasies
Forbidden Spell
Serpent's Egg
Infinite Regress
Just Like Me