He can be summoned to Earth's surface through certain secret caverns and fissures, and sorcerers have seen him in Syria and below the black tower of Leng: from the Thang Grotto of Tartary he has come ravening to bring terror and destruction among the pavilions of the great Khan. Men know him as the Dweller in Darkness, that brother of the Old Ones called Nyogtha, the Thing that should not be. They can do little harm to those of Earth, and fear only that shape which a certain sound may form in their universe. For the barrier between haply grows thin, and when sourceless sounds occur we may justly look to the denizens of S'glhuo. In that Gulf the very worlds are of sound, and matter is known but as an odor and the notes of our pipes in this world may create beauty or bring forth abominations in S'glhuo. Of those which come through the gate and make their habitation in this world none can tell although Ibn Schacabao tells of the beings which crawl from the Gulf of S'ghlhuo that they may be known by their sound.

Verily do we know little of the other universes beyond the gate which YOG-SOTHOTH guards. Here follows a small selection of quotes from various translations of the Necronomicon:Īnd it was dreamed again of the priest Nophra-Ka and of the words he spoke at his death, how the son would rise to claim the title, and the son would rule the world in his father’s name, and the son would revenge his father’s murder, and the son would call the Beast that is worshipped, and the sands would drink the blood of the seed of the Pharaoh.

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