Throughout The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, there's a theme of paganistic religions rising to eclipse and banish Christianity (well, at least in the album's titular track). The Bognatriyi can be viewed as a sort of pantheon, as it were, and it has already been established that Volkh was a shapeshifter.
The speaker is envisioning in his dream that he is a wolf, hunting with a pack of other wolves, as we know from the title. That they are VOLKH'S children implies a shapeshifting nature, meaning perhaps that they are werewolves or that the gods they worship may change and coalesce (like the line in the Principle of Evil Made Flesh in which the speaker refers to an unnamed, antagonist figure to Christ "Artemis, Bastet, Astarte"-- each of which comes from a different pagan religion, even though the rest of the song sounds as though it refers to a single deity). The followers of Christ have been allegorically referred to as lambs by the Bible, prominently in Revelations and in Jesus's parable of The Good Shepherd. The central figures in this poem are wolves--the obvious antagonists of sheep, and therefore Christ.
Throughout The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, there's a theme of paganistic religions rising to eclipse and banish Christianity (well, at least in the album's titular track). The Bognatriyi can be viewed as a sort of pantheon, as it were, and it has already been established that Volkh was a shapeshifter.
The speaker is envisioning in his dream that he is a wolf, hunting with a pack of other wolves, as we know from the title. That they are VOLKH'S children implies a shapeshifting nature, meaning perhaps that they are werewolves or that the gods they worship may change and coalesce (like the line in the Principle of Evil Made Flesh in which the speaker refers to an unnamed, antagonist figure to Christ "Artemis, Bastet, Astarte"-- each of which comes from a different pagan religion, even though the rest of the song sounds as though it refers to a single deity). The followers of Christ have been allegorically referred to as lambs by the Bible, prominently in Revelations and in Jesus's parable of The Good Shepherd. The central figures in this poem are wolves--the obvious antagonists of sheep, and therefore Christ.