TWhen Randolph Carter's consciousness was merged with that of the wizard Zkauba on the planet Yaddith, the Zkauba-aspect went to consult the Tablets of Nhing for advice on what to do. [HPL Gates (online text) 447] Tablets of ultra-stellar stone that recorded the wisdom of gods who died before the Earth was born. In the grey beginning of Earth, the tablets were guarded in the primal mire by the formless, idiotic demiurge, Ubbo-Sathla. Paul Tregardis and Zon Mezzamalech each tried to read the tablets by using a magic crystal that gave visions of the past; but a side-effect of the crystal caused them to regress, so that modern Paul Tregardis became the prehistoric Zon Mezzamalech, and then was reduced to a shapeless eft of the prime, that crawled sluggishly and obliviously across the fallen tablets of the gods. [CAS Ubbo (online text) 51, 53, 55] HPL Aeons (online text) mythos contain allusions relevant to lost civilisation of Mu 268. Albert Keith flew to Tahiti. With the help of Ronald Abbott, he hired the Okishuri Maru to voyage to R'lyeh. [RB Strange] Incl: Royal Tahitian. Rapa Islander common-law wife of Ronald Abbot. Her grandfather remembered the 1925 earthquake that Lovecraft mentioned in The Call of Cthulhu [HPL Call (online text)], and talked of a creature or creatures living at the bottom of the sea. [RB Strange] Of Arkham area. AWD Witches 294. Explorer who died searching for Chaugnar Faugn's statue. FBL Hills (online text) 242. California. HPL Test (online text) 23. A god of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 46. Girl of the Britons; earlier incarnation of Eleanor Brent. REH People (online text) 149-150, (151), 152-153, 155-156, 158-160, 162, 167. REH Bear 36. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 85-86; Kadath (online text) 309, 333, 338, 345, 352. Polynesian sea-god. AWD Island 178. Temples of, Egyptian? HPL Medusa (online text) 181, 189-190. HPL Medusa (online text) 171. See also: Bedard, Marceline; Isis. Synonym for Ghatanothoa. HPL Aeons (online text) 278. "The black truth veiled by the immemorial allegory of Tao." HPL Whisperer (online text) 256. FBL Hounds (online text) 76-77; Gateway 7. HC Isle (online text) 147. AWD Gorge 100. Priest of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 44-47. Deity worshipped by Druids. CAS Holiness (online text) 130-131, 137. Resident of Sewell Street, Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104. A place. HPL Gates (online text) 433. HK Salem (online text) 262. Tribe of central Arabia. AWD Lamp (online text) 249. HPL Mountains (online text) 6. RWC Mask (online text) 60; Yellow (online text) 107. College Hill, Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 113. "Taurus (Latin for 'the Bull') is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere. Taurus is a large and prominent constellation in the northern hemisphere's winter sky. It is one of the oldest constellations, dating back to at least the Early Bronze Age when it marked the location of the Sun during the spring equinox. Its importance to the agricultural calendar influenced various bull figures in the mythologies of Ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The symbol representing Taurus is (Unicode ♉), which resembles a bull's head. A number of features exist that are of interest to astronomers. Taurus hosts two of the nearest open clusters to Earth, the Pleiades and the Hyades, both of which are visible to the naked eye. At first magnitude, the red giant Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation." [Taurus, Wikipedia] Taurus thus includes several features that have interested Mythos cultists: the Hyades, Aldebaran, and the Pleiades, which in turn includes Celaeno. AWD Island 182; Keeper 141; Sky 57, 59; Space, a dark star in ___ where the Great Race migrated to 238, 243. HC Isle (online text) 160. Synonym for: Jason, Father. REH Children (online text): (Spelled as Taverel) An acquaintance of John Conrad. He had read Arthur Machen. Taverel read Nameless Cults and was convinced that Von Junzt was mad. He discussed the Bran cult with Prof. John Kirowan. Taverel thought that the Picts were the original inhabitants of Britain. He tried swinging the ancient Welsh flint mallet that Conrad had reconstructed, and remarked that the balance of it was all off-center. Star in Pleiades. AWD Curwen 46. Scientist. HPL Mountains (online text) 66, 69. Of Wilbraham. AWD Peabody 188, 198. Composer, Swan Lake. RB Sebek 122. George Rogers visited the ruined city in Indo-China where the Tcho-Tchos lived. He apparently captured an oblong swimmer in darkness and made it into a statue. [HPL Museum (online text) 221] Around 150 million years ago, when Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee was held as a captive mind by the Great Race, another captive mind was of the wholly abominable Tcho-Tchos [HPL Time (online text) 395]. AWD Beyond2 169, 176; Curwen 21-22; Gable (online text) 207; Gorge near Rangoon 112; Ithaqua 115; Lair 118, (119), 120, little feet pattering (121), (122), 123, 125-126, 128, 131-133; Lurker 84, 133; Hastur serve Cthulhu? 21; Sandwin curious hybrid Chinese? (98), and Tibetan plateaus 104, in Tibet 106; Seal (online text) 162; Sky 68; Space ___ of Tibet! 241; Survivor (online text) 162; Whippoorwills 40; Wind (online text) Allison Wentworth spoke of the accursed designs of the Tcho-Tcho while raving of his year spent traveling as a captive of Ithaqua; Witches 301. RB Terror 226. Aka: Blackbeard; Thatch, Ned. A phrase uttered by a shoggoth that pursued Danforth and William Dyer in Antarctica. They recognized the phrase from Edgar Allan Poe's story The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, in which it was screamed eternally by the gigantic, spectrally snowy birds of the Antarctic core. Later, Dyer inferred that the shoggoth was imitating the language of its bygone masters, the Old Ones. [HPL Mountains (online text) 97-98, 100-101, 106] Of Cold Harbor. AWD Ithaqua 111, 113, 115-116. Granite city of, in dream. HPL Iranon (online text) 111-116. In Hungary? A place. REH Black (online text) 58. Temple of Darkness, Temple of Shadows To Gol-goroth, god of Bal-Sagoth. REH Gods (online text) 202-203, 225-227. HPL Case (online text) 132. Ulthar. HPL Kadath (online text) 347. Temple of the Elder Ones, Inganok HPL Kadath (online text) 359, 361. Temple of the Elder Ones, Ulthar HPL Kadath (online text) 311. Temple to A-ala in Bal Sagoth. REH Gods (online text) 203. REH Shadow (online text). REH Roof (online text) (5), 6, described (8), 10-11. HPL Dunwich (online text) 177. AWD Depths (online text) 225-226, 234, 237, 243-250. Illustrator of Alice in Wonderland. AWD Curwen 12, 46. HPL Electric (online text) 68. HPL Electric (online text) 68. A fabled Middle Eastern kingdom of 5,000 years ago, perhaps close to the kingdom of Genghir the Dreamer. [RB Lotus] Of Kingsport. HPL Mist (online text) 278-279, 284-285; Terrible (online text) 272-275. REH Lost 78. Aka: feathered serpent. Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 7-8. RB Terror description 241, memories 241-243, 245, hunger 248, sinks the Rover 248/249, eats Dena 249/250, at Santa Rita water front 252. 65 million--600,000 years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 17, 33, 46, 53, 72, 77. REH Lost 64. Incl: Allison family; Allison, Job; Brill family; Brill, Jonathon; Donnelly family; Donnelly, Bill; Fletcher family; Fletcher, Saul; Kerney, Steve; Killiher family; Kiowas; McCrill family; McCrill, Braxton; McCrill, Jonas; Mound Builders; Old People; Ord family; Ord, Bill and Peter; Reynolds family; Reynolds, Esau; Reynolds, John; Solomon, Jack; Stark brothers; Toltecs; Toltecs; Wallace, Bigfoot. Antelope Wells; Blind Horse Canyon; El Paso; Ghost Cave; Lost Valley. Of K'naa. HPL Aeons (online text) followed Imash-Mo at Nath feast 273, refused to ban T'yog's pilgrimage (274), blessed T'yog at start of journey 275. HPL Kadath (online text) 316. A beacon of Baharna. HPL Kadath (online text) 327. Thal, Manghai The next-to-last chief headsman of Commoriom. He came of a lineage of chief headsmen that began in the times of the primal kings. His son Athammaus assumed the post after him. [CAS Testament (online text)] Thalarion, City of a Thousand Wonders HPL Kadath (online text) 317; White (online text) 38. RWC Repairer (online text) 37. AWD Hastur 12. AWD Curwen 13. Tribe of northern Arabia. AWD Lamp (online text) 249. Of Tartary. HK Salem (online text) 262. HPL Man (online text) 208. Synonym for Ghatanothoa. HPL Aeons (online text) 278. HPL Polaris (online text) 22. HPL White (online text) 39. RB Terror 226. Aka: Blackbeard; Teach, Edward. Farmer near Bridgetown. RB Mannikin 79, (80), 83. Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-English Canaan By Rev. Ward Phillips. In the title, Thaumaturgy refers to sorcery or the working of miracles. The word Canaan might be used in its figurative sense as a "promised land." More specifically, it may be a reference to The New English Canaan by Thomas Morton (1637). The latter work was "an inspired denunciation of Puritan government in the colonies and their policy of land enclosure against the native population, who were described as a far nobler culture, and defined as a Canaan under attack from the 'New Israel' of the Puritans" [Thomas Morton (colonist), Wikipedia.]. Possibly Phillips was an admirer of Morton's work, which is available in online editions at the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. The work includes an excerpt titled Of Evill Sorceries done in New England, of Daemons in No Humane Shape. [HPL Sorceries (online text)] Ambrose Dewart found a copy of Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-English Canaan in Billington House, dated Boston 1801. Dewart took it to be a reprint of an earlier work. It was a thick volume, printed in an imitation of black letter, with the long s and other obsolete typographical traits. [AWD Lurker 17] Alijah Billington wrote a letter to one of the Arkham papers, protesting the book [19, 26, 68]. Later, the author, Ward Phillips, attempted to gather copies of the book and burn them [117]. Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop; Dan Harrop remembered vaguely having heard of the book before [AWD Whippoorwills 43]. Providence. HPL Call (online text) 130. Egypt. RB Fane 133; Sebek 116. Synonym for Evil Ones (2) [HH Guardian]. Synonym for shoggoths? RB Notebook (online text) 232-233, (235), 236, 238-242, 244, (247), black thing (248), 249. RB Sorcerer (online text) 155. HPL Aeons (online text) Stuart Reynolds has smattering of theosophical lore 269; Call (online text) 126, 128, 131-132, 140, 142; Time (online text) 385. FBL Hounds (online text) 75. 200 B.C. HPL Time (online text) 396. By Roger Bacon. A collection of works about alchemy. Full title: Sanioris medicinæ magistri D. Rogeri Baconis Angli, Thesavrvs chemicvs: in quo liber scientiarum. Alchemia major. Breviatium dedono Dei. Verbum abbreviatum de Leone viridi. Secretum secretorum. Tractatus, trium verborum: & speculum secretorum (Frankfurt, 1620). It was first published in 1603 under the title Sanioris medicinae magistri D. Rogeri Baconis Angli De arte chymiae scripta.[1] It was "a collection of small tracts containing Excerpta de Libra Avicennæ de Anima, Breve Breviarium, Verbum Abbreviatum, Secretum Secretorum, Tractatus Trium Verborum, and Speculum Secretorum."[2] A copy of the 1603 edition, in Latin, is available at the Internet Archive. John Merritt saw a copy of Roger Bacon’s Thesaurus Chemicus in Joseph Curwen's library. [HPL Case (online text) 121] 1. In the catalog of the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, ret. 3/3/2021. See: Tibet. Author, Kryptographik (2). AWD Survivor (online text) 160. By H. P. Lovecraft. DWR Music (online text) 292. Synonym for Nyogtha. HK Salem (online text) 261. RB Mannikin 79. A planet. HPL Fungi (online text) X. Whose jagged peaks the Night Gaunts flew over. HPL Fungi (online text) XX; Kadath (online text) 335-336; Dreamer (online text) peaks of 46. HPL Picture (online text) 119. Providence. HPL Call (online text) 128, 142. Of the Times. A reporter. FBL Hills (online text) 265. A beacon of Baharna. HPL Kadath (online text) 327. Synonym for Cthulhu. AWD Clay 375, 378. HPL Kadath (online text) 353. Of Bel-Yarnak. HK Jest (online text) mightiest of priests, wisest of all who dwelt in Bel Yarnak 60-63. Boston. AWD Curwen 47; Sky 52. REH Dark (online text) 66-67, 69, 73-76, 78-82, 84-85; Gods (online text) 187. Grandfather of Brunhild. REH Gods (online text) 195-196, 213, 225. Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 6, 27. HPL Rats (online text) 40-42, 45: A psychic investigator who helped explore the grotto beneath Exham Priority. Thornton held that the manifestations of rats ceased because they had shown Delapore what they wished to show him. Thornton fainted when he beheld the skeleton-strewn grotto. Following Delapore's murder of Capt. Norrys, Thornton's mind apparently collapsed, for he was confined in Hanwell Insane Asylum in the cell next to Delapore's. RB Philtre (online text) 292-296. Egyptian god. RB Faceless 40; Mummy 284; Opener 163; Sebek 125. The Probilski Foundation had a statue of ibis-headed Thoth. [RB Strange] See also: Book of Thoth. REH Ring (online text) 62. Thou Who Waiteth in the Outer Dark HK Invaders (online text) 77. Synonym for: Vorvadoss. Thraa was in the land of Mnar, and was built by dark shepherd folk. Men from Thraa came to visit Sarnath for the feast of the thousandth year since the destruction of Ib. Travellers from Thraa marveled at the shining domes in Sarnath. The greatest palaces in Thraa were less mighty than the least of those in Sarnath. Vinegar from Thraa was used to dissolve pearls from wave-washed Mtal. [HPL Doom (online text)] Iranon said that he had visited Thraa [Iranon (online text)]. The merchants of Thraa traded beautiful wares for onyx from Inganok [Kadath (online text)]. "The gilded spires of Thran" DW. HPL Gates (online text) 431; Kadath (online text) 334, 349, 350; Silver (online text) 408. HPL Case (online text) 131. AWD Lurker 134. REH Fire (online text) 44. Of Ulthar. HPL Cats (online text) a cutter of stones, accompanies Kranon to the cotter's house 58. Thulan See: Mhu Thulan. Island from whence Rlim Shaikorth drew some of its servants. CAS Coming (online text) 71-72, 74-76, 78. Incl: Dooni; Loddhan, Ux. Primeval place--Greek myth? CAS Ubbo (online text) 49. HPL Man (online text) 207, 213. Of dreamlands. HPL Other (online text) men have felt rain there, which was really the tears of homesick gods of earth 127. HPL Pickman (online text) (narrator) 16-17, was in France (20). HPL Call (online text) (narrator) 125. Providence. HPL Case (online text) 140. HPL Pyramids (online text) table inscribed by, between paws of Sphinx. Of Asia. HPL Diary (online text) 303; Museum (online text) 217; Test (online text) 19-20, 25, 28, 36, 40-41, 43, 45, (46/47), 55. Ganesha is worshipped as Chaugnar Faugn in the old places of Tibet [RB Elephant (online text) 44]. AWD Beyond2 154, 164; Island 211; Gable (online text) 199, 209; Keeper 140; Hastur Chinese priest fm. inner Tibet 10 & 12; Sandwin 98, 104, 106; Seal (online text) 161-162, 172; Space 241; Wind (online text) mentioned as site of Lhassa; Incl: Bonpa priests; Lhassa; Tcho-Tcho people; Tsanpo; U-Tsang. Aka: Thibet. On the Pecos. HPL Mound (online text) 116. AWD Keeper 140. Marquesas. AWD Island 185; Gorge 100. HK Salem (online text) very hard to get 262. Ancestor of Charles Dexter Ward. HPL Case (online text) 116. Scientist and philosopher of Benevolent Street, Providence. Constructed a machine to stimulate dormant human senses, including the pineal gland, thus revealing the unseen entities that surround us. Death, attributed to apoplexy, occurred when narrator shot his machine. HPL Beyond (online text) 90-97. HPL Case (online text) 125-126, 147. See: Curwen, Eliza. Ancestor of Charles Dexter Ward. HPL Case (online text) 116. Providence family. HPL Case (online text) 122. Curator, Newburyport Historical Society. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 311-313. AWD Keeper 148, 150. Island off South-East Asia. In the near future, Timor suffers damage from earthquakes related to the rising of R'lyeh. [RB Strange] See: Hounds of Tindalos. HH Guardian: The proprietor of a very disorganized bookstore. Little over four feet tall, entirely bald (lacking even eyebrows), with grayish skin. He was the current guardian of the Book. It was brought to him ages ago on his own planet, the very location of which he has long long forgotten, by a queer person from yet another planet. The tiny man was an avid student of the vaguely hinted-at, premundane creatures supposed to have inhabited his world before it swam into light out of the darkness. Since then, the tiny man has made terrible transits of time and space. The Evil Ones (2) have made him immune to outer space and capable of traveling faster than light, but they subject him to tortures of mind and soul. He tried to tempt Doctor Wycherly into reading the Book, and thus becoming the new guardian of the Book. After Wycherly tried to burn the Book, the tiny man retrieved the Book from the fire and was not seen again. Synonym for T'yog. HPL Aeons (online text) 278. Big father of men; Wichita (?) indian god. HPL Mound (online text) 103, 109; Yig (online text) whose children men are 88. Of Greek myth. HPL Mist (online text) 282. AWD Lurker 122. Proprietor of Orange Hotel, Bloemfontein. [HPL Winged (online text) 242] HPL Electric (online text) 68. HPL Electric (online text) 68. HPL Aeons (online text) T'yog starts up Mount Yaddith-Gho with a staff of tlath-wood in his hand 275. HH Guardian 291-293, 296-297, 303: A person from the planet Vhoorl, who retrieved the writings of Kathulhn after the latters death, and made them into the Book. Tlaviir wrote the preface for the book. He was the first guardian of the Book. HPL Electric (online text) 61. Incl: McComb, President; Jackson, Superintendent; Feldon, Arthur. Mexico. HPL Electric (online text) 62, 74. A woman of K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 150-154, 157, 163. Of Northwest Coast. AWD Island of Ketchikan, Alaska 179; Survivor (online text) 159. HPL Electric (online text) 74. Suffolk. Home of the Grymlann family, including John Grimlan [REH Dig (online text) 80]. From the description, a being possibly synonymous with or related to the Master of the Monolith. REH Roof (online text) clink of hoof on stone (7), 9, sounds of horse on roof (10), tentacled, hoofed, winged, and tittering (11). See: Master of the Monolith. On the moon. HPL Kadath (online text) 320-323, (371), 376, 381, 386-387. See also: moon-things. See: frogs; Toad, the; toad-like thing; toad-things. HPL Call (online text) 130. Of Hollywood. HK Bells (online text) 80-93. Synonym for T'yog. HPL Aeons (online text) 278. AWD Lair 135. Ohio. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363. HPL Mound (online text) 137. REH Lost ancestors of 79. Type of saurians. AWD Survivor (online text) 152. HPL Electric (online text) 74, 77. Incl: Tapa cloth. Tonga. AWD Island 185. Elder devil of Eskimos. AWD Gorge 121. HK Hunt (online text) 168. Synonym for: Iod. HPL Electric (online text) 63. Viking? REH Gods (online text) 195-196. An inhabitant of Yekub. HPL Challenge (online text) 14-15. HPL Mountains (online text) 72. France. CAS Holiness (online text) 125. See: Malik Tous. In Teloth (dream). HPL Iranon (online text) 111. Towers in the Sky A book by the poet Justin Geoffrey. It mentions a character called Aristius. [REH Door] Windham Co., Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 216-217, 225, 229, 238, 244, 263, 271. Incl: Akeley, Henry. Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 319, 324, 326-327, 336, 341-342, 347, 352, 355. Providence. HPL Case (online text) 114, 117, 122-123, 129, 152. By De Vigenere. HPL Dunwich (online text) 183. Apparently a reference to the Boston Transcript. [AWD Hastur] [AWD Sandwin 91. See: Aylesbury Transcript; Boston Transcript. HPL Diary (online text) 317. South Africa. HPL Winged (online text) 244. Incl: Pretoria. HPL Case (online text) 162, 164, 195-196, 200, 223. AWD Gorge 98, 111. Incl: Cregoivacar. See: Shining Trapezohedron. Anthropologist. HPL Rats (online text) 42-43. CAS Ubbo (online text) 48-55. Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 24. CAS Offspring (online text) 10-12, 16, 25. CAS Offspring (online text) 7-8, 10, 12, 19-20. CAS Offspring (online text) 7, 10-21, 24-25. Missouri. AWD Lurker 137. "La Très Sainte Trinosophie, The Most Holy Trinosophia, or The Most Holy Threefold Wisdom, is a French esoteric book, allegedly authored by Alessandro Cagliostro or the Count of St. Germain. Due to the dearth of evidence of authorship, however, there is significant doubt surrounding the subject. Dated to the late 18th century, the 96-page book is divided into twelve sections representing the twelve zodiacal signs. The veiled content is said to refer to an allegorical initiation, detailing many kabbalistic, alchemical and masonic mysteries. The original MS 2400 at the Library of Troyes is richly illustrated with numerous symbolical plates." [The Most Holy Trinosophia, Wikipedia] Will Benson referred to La Très Sainte Trinosophie as a book about the super-science which enables man to get in contact with ultra-human entities. [HK Hunt (online text) 167] HPL Rats (online text) 30. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 89; Kadath (online text) 354. 230,000,000 yrs ago--180 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 16; Time (online text) 383. RFS Warder 156. HPL Rats (online text) feast like that of 40. RB Terror 231. HPL Case (online text) 121. AWD Lurker 16. "Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus. . . Notably, the German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) and the Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer Paracelsus (1493–1541) were among his pupils. . . Trithemius' most famous work, Steganographia (written c. 1499; published Frankfurt, 1606) . . . appears to be about magic—specifically, about using spirits to communicate over long distances. Since the publication of the decryption key to the first two volumes in 1606, they have been known to be actually concerned with cryptography and steganography. Until recently, the third volume was widely still believed to be solely about magic, but the 'magical' formulae have now been shown to be covertexts for yet more cryptographic content." [Johannes Trithemius, Wikipedia, 12/30/2020] Trithemius was the author of Polygraphia. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183] John Merritt seems to have mistakenly thought that Trithemius was the author of De Lapide Philosophico. [HPL Case (online text) 121] In Greek Mythology, sea-dwelling creatures with a human-like upper body and a fish-like lower body. They carry shells that can blow on to calm the waves during a storm. They visisted the Strange High House in the Mist in company with Nodens. [HPL Mist (online text) 283, 286] RB DarkIsle 112. HPL Rats (online text) 40. HPL Whisperer (online text) 214. HK Invaders (online text) 77. Synonym for: Vorvadoss. Cambridge. HPL Mound (online text) 159. The scroll created by T'yog to take when confronting Ghatanothoa. HPL Aeons (online text) T'yog creates scroll (274), stolen by Imash-Mo (274), true scroll in custody of Nagob 278, still exists and Ghatanothoa cult attempting to bring it to T'yog 280, found in hand of dead cultist (283), can undo petrification; does it survive? 286. Contrast with: false scroll. AWD Curwen 15. Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 38, 59. Megalithic ruins in Uganda were said to have been an outpost of Tsadogwa. [HPL Winged (online text) 247] Synonym for: Tsathoggua. Ruler of a cruel empire that is to come three thousand years from now [HPL Sleep (online text) 34, Time (online text) 395]. Where Chaugnar Faugn was a god. FBL Hills (online text) 242, near Lhasa? 256. HPL Test (online text) 39-40, 44-46. City in K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 133-135, 137-153. An amorphous and toad-like god-creature [HPL Whisperer (online text)]. He is said to be great in girth, very squat and pot-bellied. He has a huge, toad-shaped head. His sleepy lids are half-lowered over his globular eyes, from which trickle a phosphor-like glow. The tip of a queer tongue protrudes from his fat mouth. His whole body is covered with short, dark, fine fur, giving the impression of a bat or sloth. [CAS Seven (online text); Tale (online text); Door (online text)] However, Tsathoggua can apparently change his form, for he is known as "plastic" [HPL Gates (online text)] and "amorphous" [HPL Aeons (online text)]. Tsathoggua is sluggish by nature. Even when ravenously hungry, he will not arise from his place, but waits in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice. He seems to drink the blood of his victims rather than eating their flesh; for Ezdagor sent someone to Tsathoggua as a "blood-offering," and the previous victim appeared to be a "lean husk," which is suggestive of something that was drained, rather than eaten whole. [CAS Seven (online text)] Origin and Oldest Cults According to Clark Ashton Smith, Tsathoggua as born in a foreign universe [CAS Door (online text)]. Tsathoggua's father was Ghizguth, and his mother was Zstulzhemgni. Ghizguth's androgynous parent Cxaxukluth brought them from a distant star system to Yuggoth. There, Tsathoggua lived with his parents in inner caverns to avoid the cannibalistic tendencies of Cxaxukluth. After a long while, Tsathoggua moved to Cykranosh (Saturn). [CAS Pnom] According to H. P. Lovecraft, Tsathoggua was descended from Nug, and Tsathoggua's descendents included Clark Ashton Smith. [HPL Family (online text)] Tsathoggua came from Cykranosh to Earth in years immediately following the earth's creation [CAS Seven (online text)], when the earth was still no more than a steaming morass [CAS Door (online text)]. However, Ubbo-Sathla was already present on Earth before Tsathoggua arrived [Ubbo (online text)]. Tsathoggua, travelling through another dimension than the familiar three, first entered the Earth by means of the lightless inner Gulf of N'Kai; and he lingered there for cycles, during which his ultraterrestrial origin was not suspected. [CAS Pnom] Albert Wilmarth said that Tsathoggua's home was black, lightless N'kai [FL Terror2]. The Outer One masquerading as Henry Akeley said that Tsathoggua came from black, lightless N'kai: the deepest level of a system of caverns beneath Oklahoma [HPL Whisperer (online text)] Dark, variable spawn came down with Tsathoggua from elder worlds and exterior dimensions where physiology and geometry had both assumed an altogether inverse trend of development. [CAS Testament (online text)] These seem to have become the worshippers of Tsathoggua in N'kai: amorphous lumps of viscous black slime that took temporary shapes for various purposes.They had peculiar senses to make up for the complete darkness of their abode, and had a great civilisation. [HPL Mound (online text)] A few daring mystics have suggested that the devotees of Tsathoggua were as alien to mankind as Tshathoggua itself [HPL Mountains (online text)]. On viewing the Antarctic city of the Old Ones, Prof. Dyer was reminded of the Hyperborean legends of Tsathoggua and the "worse than formless" star-spawn associated with that semi-entity [Mountains (online text)]. Based on the description, it seems likely that Dyer was thinking of the black slime worhsippers of Tsathoggua in Nkai. Yog-Sothoth told Randolph Carter that entities from the double planet Kythanil flew to earth and worshipped Tsathoggua [HPL Gates (online text)]. These could be the same as the "star-spawn" mentioned by Dyer and the slime creatures in N'kai. Later, Tsathoggua established himself in caverns nearer to the surface (presumably Yoth and K'n-yan), and his cult thrived. [CAS Pnom] The cult of Tsathoggua become popular among the Old Ones of K'n-yan, and almost rivalled the ancient cults of Yig and Tulu. The city of Tsath was named after Tsathoggua. One branch of the Old Ones of K'n-yan carried the cult to the outer world, where one of the images found its way to a shrine in Olathoë, in the Arctic land of Lomar [HPL Mound (online text)]. However, the people of K'n-yan eventually abandoned the worship of Tsathoggua. [HPL Mound (online text)] The circumstances are unclear, because much of Tsathoggua's legend was later forgotten or misunderstood by the dwellers in the red-litten Caverns of Yoth and blue-litten Caverns of K'n-Yan. By the time of the Spaniard Zamacona's visit, Gll'Hthaa-Ynn believed that only the statues of Tsathoggua, and not Tsathoggua himself, had ever emerged from the inner world. [CAS Pnom] Gll'-Hthaa-Ynn also said that the people of K'n-yan abandoned the Tsathoggua cult after an expedition to N'kai found some of the black slime creatures. [HPL Mound (online text)] In any case, after the coming of the ice, Tsathoggua returned to N'Kai. [CAS Pnom] One of Tsathoggua's temples was later turned into a shrine of Shub-Niggurath. During Zamacona's visit, Gll'-Hthaa-Ynn detoured to show Zamacona an ancient, deserted temple of Tsathoggua. [HPL Mound (online text)] God of the Hyperboreans 200,000 years ago, lost Hyperborea knew the nameless worship of black amorphous Tsathoggua [HPL Aeons (online text)]. Originally, this worship was probably rendered by the beings from Kythanil, since Yog-Sothoth told Carter that those beings worshipped Tsathoggua in primal Hyperborea [HPL Gates (online text)]. Later, the worship in Hyperborea was apparently taken up by the primate forbears of humanity; for, among the minds held captive by the Great Race were three from the furry "pre-human" Hyperborean worshippers of Tsathoggua [HPL Time (online text)]. During the human era, the people of Hyperborea also worshipped Tsathoggua, who was fabled to reside below Mt. Voormithadreth. During worship at his black altars, the devotees always faced in the direction of Voormithadreth. At that time, the sorcerer Ezdagor sent Ralibar Vooz to Tsathoggua as a sacrifice. Tsathoggua decided not to feast on Ralibar Vooz, but instead sent him onward as an offering to Atlach-Nacha. [CAS Seven (online text)]. Later in Hyperborean history, the thief Satampra Zeiros visited a shrine of Tsathoggua in the suburbs of ruined Commoriom, the former capital of Hyperborea. By the time of Satampra Zeiros, the people of Hyperborea had ceased to worship Tsathoggua; but it was rumored that jungle beasts visited his abandoned temples and uttered inarticulate prayers to him. [CAS Tale (online text)] The temple visited by Zeiros had a basin filled with a foetid black slime. This slime turned out to be a living being that could change shape at will, and which pursued Zeiros and his associate. [CAS Tale (online text)] This being was probably one of the fissional spawn of Knygathin Zhaum [CAS Pnom], but could have been Tsathoggua himself, or possibly one of the slime-creatures from Kythanil. By the time of the Hyperborean sorcerer Eibon, Tsathoggua's worship had lapsed, and he was driven to lead a wholly subterranean existence. Eibon worshipped him as Zhothaqquah, and found him to be a very truthful deity. [Door (online text)] God of the Outer Ones It appears that Tsathoggua is one of the entities worshipped by the Outer Ones. Thus, Tsathoggua was mentioned in a litany recited in a Vermont cave on May-Eve by an Outer One and a human [HPL Whisperer (online text)]. Since the Outer Ones colonized Yuggoth (Pluto) where Tsathoggua lived for a time, Robert M. Price has speculated that the Outer Ones picked up the worship of Tsathoggua on Yuggoth. [Robert M. Price (ed.), The Tsathoggua Cycle. Chaosium Publications, 2005.] Cult Survivals Tsathoggua is mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the Necronomicon, and the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton [HPL Whisperer (online text)]. In medieval France, Brother Ambrose witnessed a manifestation of Sodagui (Tsathoggua) that was raised by Azédarac, Archbishop of Averoigne [CAS Holiness (online text)]. Prof. John Kirowan admitted the former existence of the Tsathoggua cult, but doubted that it survives today [REH Children (online text)]. According to the Rajah of Jadhore, Ganesha was worshipped as Tsathoggua long ago [RB Elephant (online text)]. However, the differing appearance of the two deities (elephant-headed versus toadlike) makes this identification doubtful. Megalithic ruins in Uganda were said to have been an outpost of Tsadogwa. [HPL Winged (online text)] Tsathoggua as an Earth God David, nephew of Asa Sandwin, recalled reading of Tsathoggua and Yog-Sothoth as leaders of the elemental earth powers [AWD Sandwin]. According to Horvath Blayne, Tsathoggua was a god of earth, and one of the Ancient Ones who rebelled against the Elder Gods [AWD Island]. According to books such as the Sussex Manuscript, Celaeno Fragments, and Cultes des Ghoules, Tsathoggua is waiting in N'kai [AWD Gorge]. Passages from the Necronomicon mention Tsathoggua [AWD Keeper ]; according to some such passages, Tsathoggua shall come again from the black-litten caverns of N'kai within the earth [AWD Curwen; Lurker]. Modern Scholars and Encounters The Indian wise man Misquamacus said that Ossadagowah was a child of Sadogowah (Tsathoggua) [HPL Sorceries (online text), AWD Lurker]. After wreaking vengeance on a rival, Daniel Morris wrote "Praise the Lord Tsathoggua!" Morris may have learned of Tsathoggua from the Book of Eibon. [HPL Man (online text)] Rogers' Museum had a figure of black, formless Tsathoggua [HPL Museum (online text)]. Stephen Jones imagined the figure of Tsathoggua elongating itself from a toad-like gargoyle to a long, sinuous line with hundreds of rudimentary feet [HPL Museum (online text)]. A letter from Henry Akeley mentioned Tsathoggua [HPL Whisperer (online text)]. Tony Alwyn read of Tsathoggua in the forbidden texts at Miskatonic University library [AWD Beyond2]. A dictaphone recording made at Rick's Lake, Wisconsin, recorded a voice neither human nor bestial, which uttered praise to many elder beings, including Tsathoggua [AWD Dweller ]. The late Amos Tuttle's papers included references to Tsathoggua [AWD Hastur]. While pondering an invocation to the Warder of Knowledge in the Eltdown Shards, Gordon Whitney recalled references from other works to the unspeakable practices of the Tsathoggua cult [RFS Warder]. Boys in the late Elmer Harrod's house heard the name Tsathoggua chanted from underground [JVS Dead]. A tiny man told Dr. Wycherly that the Book reveals whence obscure and loathsome Tsathoqquah came, and why [HH Guardian]. Name Variants Tsathoggua is also known as Sadogowah [AWD Lurker], Sodagui [CAS Holiness (online text); AWD Lurker], Tsadogwa [HPL Winged (online text)], Tsathoqquah [HH Guardian], Zhothagguah [AWD Lurker], and Zhothaqquah [CAS Door (online text), Ubbo (online text)]. HH Guardian 299: Another spelling for Tsathoggua. Language of Hyperborea. HPL Gates (online text) 452. Tscho Vulpanomi A realm south of Hyperborea, or perhaps at the southern end of Hyperborea, that ends in a lake of boiling asphaltum. [CAS Testament (online text)] South Pacific. In the near future, Tuamotu suffers damage from earthquakes related to the rising of R'lyeh. [RB Strange] HPL Test (online text) 19, 54. HPL Call (online text) 141. A name for Cthulhu, used by his followers among the Old Ones of K'n-yan. See: Cthulhu. HPL Mound (online text) 135-136, 148-149, 151, 154, (156), 161. By Georg Reuter Fischer. A slim volume of verse, issued by Ptolemy Press, Hollywood, California, 1936. Fischer sent out several copies for review and donated two to the UCLA library and two more to the Miskatonic University Library. The book was admired by several people at Miskatonic, including Dr. Henry Armitage, Wingate Peaslee, Dr. Francis Morgan, and Albert Wilmarth, who contacted the author. The contents included a lyric poem called "The Green Deeps." Wilmarth wrote to Fischer to ask about the origin of certain words and images in the book, including Rulay (R'lyeh), Nath (Pnath), Cutlu (Cthulhu), and winged worms. [FL Terror2 published by Ptolemy Press 267, 286-287, 290] Australian miner. HPL Time (online text) 410. Or, "Gathering of the Philosophers." An early and influential Latin alchemical text, dating possibly to the 12th century. In a series of twenty-five dictums, the work discusses the nature of the elements and methods of combining and transforming them. "The Turba Philosophorum, also known as Assembly of the Philosophers, is one of the oldest European alchemy texts, translated from the Arabic, like the Picatrix. It is considered to have been written c. 900 A.D. . . . To quote Plessner, 'the Turba Philosophorum, written c. 900 A.D., is a well planned and, from a literary point of view, a most remarkable attempt to put Greek alchemy into the Arabic language and to adapt it to Islamic science'." [Turba Philosophorum, Wikipedia] The online text is available at www.sacred-texts.com. Joseph Curwen had a copy in his collection [HPL Case (online text) 121]. Given his interest in reanimating the dead, Curwen might have been intrigued by lines such as "assuredly, if I understand this regimen, bodies become not bodies, and incorporeal things become bodies..." Although in context, the "bodies" apparently are elements such as copper and mercury, rather than corpses. REH Black (online text) 59, 61, 64, 71-73. Incl: Selim Bahadur. By Larson. It includes a passage describing the battle of Schomvaal, where Count Boris Vladinoff perished shortly after read a disturbing roll of parchment taken from the body of the Turkish scribe and historian, Selim Bahadur. The Black Stone narrator was inspired by this passage to exhume Vladinoff's body, and retrieve the parchment recounting the execution of the Master of the Monolith by Turkish forces. [REH Black (online text) 59] REH Fire (online text) 31-32, 34. Of Beloin University. RFS Warder 153, 166. Providence. Inn or tavern? HPL Case (online text) 136. See: Madame Tussaud's. REH Roof (online text) 3-11. RB Opener 162. AWD Hastur 1-6, 8, (9), 10-17, 23-26, 29-30, 33. AWD Hastur 1-9, (10), 11-12, (13), 14-16, 18-33. House on Aylesbury Pike. AWD Dweller 137; Hastur 8, 22-23, 30-32; AWD Sandwin 105. Dunwich family. AWD Lurker 99-100. New Dunwich. AWD Lurker 50, 52, 100. Of K'naa. HPL Aeons (online text) High Priest of Shub-Niggurath, guardian of copper temple 273, creates true scroll for protection against Ghatanothoa 273-274, loses scroll to Imash-Mo 274 & 276, marches up Yaddith-Gho on Day of the Sky-Flames 275, never seen again 275 & 286, devotees speculate on what he saw 277, names like T'yog mentioned in reports of cult activity 278, his mummy discovered on temporary Pacific island 266, crouching posture and stony texture 267, attracts attention of reporter Stuart Reynolds 269, fame leaks beyond Boston 270, chief topic of (1931 & 1932) 271, cultists plan to free T'yog with true scroll 278, cultists make obeisances to mummy 279, press identifies mummy with T'yog 280, preserved for 175,000 years 280, changing aspect 280-281, Peruvian says T'yog mummy tried to open eyes 281, minute opening of eyes 281-282, shifts of posture 283-284, image of Ghatanothoa left in eyes 284-286, withdrawn from public view 287, dissection reveals living, pulsing brain 287-288. See also: true scroll; false scroll. Of Kingston, N.Y. HPL Diary (online text) (throughout) 303, 305-306. Synonym for Satan [RB Hell (online text) 37]. An ancient Phoenician seaport, now part of Lebanon. In Tyre, a manifestation of Ishtar hired camel-drivers and destroyed them with kisses [FBL WereSnake (online text)]. AWD Survivor (online text) 163. |
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