Six Litanies for Heliogabalus is an album by
John Zorn. It is the third album to feature the "Moonchild Trio" of
Mike Patton,
Joey Baron and
Trevor Dunn, following Moonchild: Songs Without Words (2005) and Astronome (2006) and the first to feature additional performers. The promotional notes that accompany the US CD Release indicate that the concept for the recording was inspired by the Roman Emperor
Heliogabalus.[2]