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Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) at witch trial, was named by Amity Howe as one marked by the Devil 150 & 194.
REH Gods (online text) 202-203, 208, 211: A goddess-name given to Brunhild of the Orkneys after she was shipwrecked on the Isle of the Gods. See Brunhild.
A hellish region.
RB Hell (online text) Phillips Keith identified Abaddon as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil; Satan 18.
CAS Holiness (online text) 122.
South America. AWD Curwen 10.
Of District School Number Seven, Arkham Area. AWD Witches 294.
One of Arkham's original settlers. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
A British man residing in Tahiti. A retired major of the Fifth Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He had a common-law wife named Takita. At some point he became part of the Black Brotherhood. When Albert Keith flew to Tahiti, Abbott befriended him and helped him hire the Okishuri Maru to visit the site of R'lyeh and destroy it. On arrival at R'lyeh, Abbot revealed that he was really there to open the door. Abbot was present when the crew fed Keith to Cthulhu. [RB Strange]
Providence. HPL Case (online text) near which the temporarily-revived body of Daniel Greene was found 137.
On planet Vhoorl. HH Guardian 295: Separated by three oceans from the city of Bhuulm. Includes Inner Mountains, lowlands populated by creatures thought to be long extinct, and a hidden city where a priestlike sect welcomes and tends to any travelers who arrive there. Tlaviir went to that city after the death of Kathulhn.
[CAS Seven (online text)]: The ultimate source of all miscreation and abomination. In ancient Hyperborea, it lived in a muddy pool in a deep cavern under Mount Voormithadreth, on the same level as the Cavern of the Archetypes. "It was a gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually; and from it, in manifold fission, were spawned the anatomies that crept away on every side through the grotto . . . all manner of things malformed and monstrous, that grew in size as they departed from the neighborhood of Abhoth. And those that swam not swiftly ashore when they fell into the pool from Abhoth, were devoured by mouths that gaped in the parent bulk."
Abhoth refused to eat the human Ralibar Vooz, insisting that Vooz was not one of its relatives or progeny, and therefore represented an untried article of diet. Abhoth ordered Vooz back to the Outer World.
Abhoth resembles the description of Ubbo-Sathla. Abhoth is also reminiscent of Clark Ashton Smith's statement "Azathoth, the primal nuclear chaos, reproduced of course only by fission; but its progeny, entering various outer planets, often took on attributes of androgynism or bisexuality. The androgynes, curiously, required no coadjutancy in the production of offspring . . ." (see The Family Tree of the Gods).
Of Old Dutchtown, New York. REH House (online text) 120.
Synonym for Outer Ones. AWD Curwen 22; Keeper 141; Lurker 133.
A legendary Himalayan race spoken of by Nepalese hill-tribes, the Abominable Snow-Men are really the same as the Outer Ones from Yuggoth [HPL Whisperer (online text) 214]. See: Outer Ones.
AWD Gable (online text) 207, 209; Seal (online text) 159, 161-162; Survivor (online text) 162; Valley (online text) 135.
RFS Warder 164.
HPL Case (online text) alphabet possibly used in the Smith diary found by Charles Dexter Ward 139.
A young guide. FBL Hills (online text) 293.
HPL Electric one of several names, apparently of Mexican Indian gods, exclaimed by Arthur Feldon 68.
astronomical symbol of. AWD Seal (online text) 151.
Of Hyperborea. CAS Tale (online text) 3.
AWD Sky 62.
Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 106.
HPL Whisperer (online text) lean and sandy-haired, but with a droning voice, thus apparently a Mi-Go in disguise, steals the black stone from the B&M train at a stop in Keene, N.H. 230, sends fake telegram to Wilmarth, signed as by Henry "Akley" (232).
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) one of fine old residential streets west of Federal 320, narrator visits neighborhood 325, narrator uses during escape 354 & 356.
Tribe of Southern Arabia. AWD Lamp (online text) 249.
Incl: Shaddad bin Ad; Shedad.
HPL Gates (online text) 426.
RFB Iram (online text) 115-118, (119).
Synonym for: Shedad.
Arabia or Middle East. AWD Keeper 143, 148, 152, 171-172.
HPL Case (online text) Charles Dexter Ward visits a village there to research old ceremonial practices 163; Man (online text) strange, ultra-realistic stone statues found after sculptor Arthur Wheeler moves there 201-202.
Incl: Morris, Daniel; Poole, Sam; Rex; Wheeler, Arthur; Allen's Cave; Mountain Top; Lake Placid; Thunder Hill.
Islands. AWD Island 186; Gorge 104-106, 110.
HPL Mountains (online text) Miskatonic Expedition views from sea 7.
"Adonai is the plural of Adon, meaning 'Lord, Lord, LORD, master, or owner' . . . In the Tanakh, the word Adon can refer to men and angels as well as to the LORD God of Israel (e.g., Exodus 34:23). God is called the 'Lord of lords' (Deuteronomy 10:17) and Psalm 8:1 mentions God as 'YHVH our Lord.'" [Hebrew Names of God: Adonai and Adonai Constructs given in the Tanakh, John J. Parsons, ret. 07/13/2024]
The name Adonai was mentioned in one of Charles Dexter Ward's invocations on the day he revived his ancestor Joseph Curwen, and also in Joseph Curwen's chant to invoke his ancient ally when confronted by Dr. Marinus Willett [HPL Case (online text)]. For further information, see Sources of Necromancy in Charles Dexter Ward.
Of Arabia. Father of Shaddad and Shadid. RFB Iram (online text) 115, 117, 118.
RB Philtre (online text) 292-296.
Living shadows, who lure victims into their dimension. Spoken of in the Song of Yste. RAL Abyss (online text) 289-291.
Synonym for Satan. RB Satan 8, 11.
Of Stamford-Norwalk area, Connecticut. RAL Settlers (online text) published by Clyde Cantrell and Will Richards.
Not to be confused with: Arkham Advertiser.
AWD Island 186; Gorge 103-104.
Incl: Adams; Blake; Greenbie, Alistair H.; Harker; Jacobson; Lambert, Jed; Peterson; Randall, Captain; Richardson; Siddons; Simonds; Wiles.
HPL Medusa (online text) flat-nosed aegipans appear in Frank Marsh's unfinished painting, dancing in a pattern Egypt's priests knew to be accursed 193.
See Egypt.
RFS Warder 164.
Affair that shambleth about in the night
According to the Necronomicon, the "Affair that shambleth about in the night" is a shape of darkness transcending our world, but lesser than 'Umr at-Tawil. [HPL Gates (online text)]
The Book reveals the meaning of the "Affair that shambleth in the stars" [HH Guardian]. It is not clear whether this is the same as the "Affair that shambleth about in the night."
REH Fire (online text) 29-30, 34, 36, 39, 41-46, 54-56.
Incl: Ali, Yar.
HPL Nameless (online text) while descending a passage in the Nameless City, narrator is reminded of Afrasiab and the demons that floated with him down the Oxus 103.
HPL Aeons (online text) cult of Ghatanothoa penetrated the forgotten Semite empires of Africa 276; Call (online text) African outposts report ominous mutterings in Spring 1925, during the period when R'lyeh was risen 132; Cats (online text) the Cat is heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa 55; Diary (online text) 304; Medusa (online text) 171, 174, 190, 194; Museum (online text) 217; Test (online text) 19, 27, 54.
AWD Gorge 99, North Africa 108; Wind (online text) among the places apparently visited by Allison Wentworth and James Macdonald during the year they were held captive by Ithaqua.
RB Brood 92.
Project Arkham suspected that the disappearance of the leaders of three African republics was caused by the Black Brotherhood. [RB Strange]
REH Skull (online text), Untitled 37.
[FBL Hills (online text)] An African pygmy in New York committed murders by using poisoned arrows.
Incl: Galla; Congo; devil-fly; Egypt; Hoggar; Impi; Sahara; South Africa; Tuaregs.
DW Lady (online text) 107.
Joseph Curwen's library included work by Agricola [HPL Case (online text)]. This may be a reference to Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), "a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in the mining and refining of metals. He was the first to drop the Arabic definite article al-, exclusively writing chymia and chymista in describing activity that we today would characterize as chemical or alchemical, giving chemistry its modern name . . . He is well known for his pioneering work De re metallica libri XII, that was published in 1556, one year after his death. This 12-volume work is a comprehensive and systematic study, classification and methodical guide on all available factual and practical aspects, that are of concern for mining, the mining sciences and metallurgy, investigated and researched in its natural environment by means of direct observation. Unrivalled in its complexity and accuracy, it served as the standard reference work for two centuries." [Georgius Agricola, Wikipedia, retrieved 07/04/2024]
HPL Electric (online text) 63.
Sea-fronting valley in Hyperborean times. CAS Coming (online text) 74.
AWD Wood cult-art of 75-76, 82.
AWD Wood 75-76.
The personification of evil in the Zoroastrian religion [Wikipedia, Ahriman, 10/24/2020].
Phillips Keith identified Ahriman as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. [RB Hell (online text)]
After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Ahriman. [RB Strange]
Prof. John Kirowan claimed that Muhammedans view Ahriman as a synonym for Malik Tous, and the essence of the evil of all the universes. In a ritual left by John Grimlan to be performed after his death, Ahriman was identified with Malik Tous and Satan. [REH Dig (online text)]
River in Mnar. HPL Doom (online text) 44, 45, 48; Iranon (online text) 114.
AWD Sky 68.
A city. HPL Iranon (online text) 111-112, 114-117.
AWD Hastur 11, incl. Hastur? 12; Wind (online text) incl. Ithaqua.
See also: elementals.
AWD Island 181.
The gate to Thalarion. HPL White (online text) 38.
AWD Gable (online text): The narrator, a cousin of Wilbur Akeley. Though referred to only as Fred in the story, he is likely an Akeley because his and Wilbur's fathers were cousins of of Henry Akeley.
Son of Henry Akeley. HPL Whisperer (online text) 218, 225, 232, 236-237, 264*.
FL Terror2 (289, 296), 297, 299, 301-302, 310.
Cousin of Wilbur Akeley. HPL Whisperer (online text) 208, biography 215, address 216, son in San Diego 218, wife 219, description of house 222, Ford car 225, 232, home halfway up Dark Mountain 249, brain-to-go 267.
AWD Gable (online text) 206, 208; Gorge 108.
FL Terror2 289, 294, son 289, son 296, 310.
Arkham area? Cousin of Henry Akeley; cousin of Gable Window narrator. AWD Gable (online text) 199-210, 205-207, 210-211, 213.
Miskatonic University Library. AWD Gable (online text) 211.
Of Innsmouth. AWD Clay 377-380.
Aklo language
See: Aklo language.
Rock in the lake of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 48, 49.
Of Al-Hijaz; Arab scribe of the caliph Mu'awiyah. RFB Iram (online text) 115, 118.
HPL Test (online text) 23.
Possibly related to Alamut, a mountainous region of northwest Iran [Alamut, Wikipedia 10/24/2020], or Mount Sinjar [Sinjar Mountains, Wikipedia 10/24/2020].
In Robert W. Chambers' novel The Slayer of Souls (1920), Mount Alamout is identified as the home of the Old Man of the Mountain, a Yezidee sorceror whose followers worship Erlik, the Prince of Darkness.
REH Dig (online text) 79: Prof. John Kirowan said that the Yezidees are of Mount Alamout the Accursed.
Lost city on Plateau of Sung. AWD Lair 119-121, 123-126, 130-135.
RWC Mask (online text) 60.
HPL Museum (online text) 217, 3 million year old ruins 221 & 229.
AWD Beyond2 164; Island 179; Gorge 98, 108.
Original Arabic text of the Necronomicon. Named after a sound, made by nocturnal insects, that resembled the howling of daemons. The Arabic original was thought to be lost by Olaus Wormius' time, ca. 1228. [HPL History (online text)]
Prof. Laban Shrewsbury and Nayland Colum questioned the spirit of Abdul Alhazred and retrieved his personal copy of the Al-Azif from his tomb in the Nameless City [AWD Keeper].
At Billington house, Stephen Bates found a manuscript volume called Al Azif-Ye Booke of Ye Arab, which had hand-copied passages from the Greek and Latin translations. The original Al-Azif was written in about the year A.D. 730 at Damascus by an Arab poet named Abdul Alhazred. [AWD Lurker]
See: Necronomicon.
Joe Slater was jailed in Albany and examined by Dr. Barnard [HPL Sleep (online text) 28].
HPL Diary (online text) 304; Electric (online text) 68-70; Man (online text) 209.
Paul Edmond recalled "a narrative he had once read, written in the Twelfth Century by the monk Alberico, and purporting to be the record of a descent into Hell. Like Dante, Alberico had seen the torments of the damned; the blasphemers (he wrote in his stilted, pedantic Latin) had been immersed to their necks in a lake of molten metal." [HK Hydra (online text)]
This appears to be a reference to the Vision of Alberico, by Alberico of Settefrati. "Alberico was born around 1100 into a noble family of Settefrati, in the Comino Valley. At the age of 10 he had remained unconscious for nine days and nine nights because of an illness during which he had a vision of visiting Hell and Paradise. For this particulari event he entered the Benedictine monastery of Montecassino, then governed by Abbate Gerardo (between 1111 and 1123) and led a life of an exemplary monk. In the monastery, he told his vision to the monk Guido who transcribed it, with some refinement and addition." [Vision of the afterlife by Alberice of Settefrati, Claudia Bettiol, ret. 07/05/2024] A translation is available at www.settefrati.net. The passage that Edmond mentioned reads: "After saying these things the Apostle showed me a terrible valley, in which I observed a great number of people covered with ice and almost frozen; I could barely see their heads. The frozen ice consumed these unhappy souls, as if in a fire." The story is said to have inspired Dante.
Star in Pleiades. AWD Curwen 46.
See: Clavis Alchimiae.
A star in the Hyades. HPL Festival (online text) 208, 212; Kadath (online text), dream-lands about ___ 308;
AB Inhabitant (online text) 535.
RWC Mask (online text) 60; Repairer (online text) 17, 36.
AWD Curwen 21, 46; Dweller 133; Gorge 126; Keeper 150; Lurker 106, dark star nearby 133; Hastur where Hastur was banished 12, 27; Sky 59; Valley (online text) 135.
Old Dutchtown. REH House (online text) 120.
RWC Repairer (online text) 37.
AWD Hastur 12.
Narrator of The Mask. He unexpectedly found a copy of The King in Yellow at the home of his friends Boris and Genevieve. [RWC Mask (online text)]
A steam yacht, known in Dunedin as an island trader with an evil reputation. Manned by a queer and evil-looking crew of Kanakas and half-castes who held frequent night meetings and trips into the woods. Armed with a heavy battery of brass cannon. In the spring of 1925, intercepted the schooner Auckland at S. 49( 51', W. 128( 34', near the risen island of R'lyeh, and did battle to prevent them approaching the island. Boarded by Auckland crew, who were forced to kill all the ruthless but clumsy Alert crew members. The Alert crew proceeded forward and discovered risen R'lyeh, where several of them died. The two remaining crew members attempted to sail the Alert away; one (Johansen) survived long enough to be rescued at S. 34( 21', W. 152( 17' by the Vigilant, which towed Alert to Darling Harbor. HPL Call (online text) 145-146, 149.
See also: Vigilant.
HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum of Archaeology includes Indian mummies from Aleutian Islands 266.
Newport. HPL Case (online text) 127, 163.
Egypt. HPL Pyramids (online text) 219.
RB Fane 135; Sebek 124; Shambler (online text) 180.
HPL Test (online text) 37.
Algol, the Daemon-Star. According to Joe Slater, Algol is the blinking beacon of a malevolent being called the oppressor [HPL Sleep (online text) 34].
Eye of Algol [AWD Dweller 138].
Spain. RB Kiss (online text) 49.
Alhazred, Abdul
See: Abdul Alhazred.
Arabia. RFB Iram (online text) 114.
Incl: Sufyan, Abu; Mu'awiyah; al-Ahbar, Ka'ab.
An Afghan. REH Fire (online text) 29-47, 53-57.
AWD Curwen 12, 46.
Of Innsmouth? Related to Whateleys or Marshes?
AWD Shuttered 270.
Muslim name for the supreme deity. RFB Iram (online text) 117-118.
Of Providence. AWD Brotherhood 331-333, 335-338, 341-342, 345-350.
Family, of District School Number Seven, near Arkham. AWD Witches 294.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 179, 181-182, 184, 187, 190, 193-196, 198, 200, 204, 213, 220-226, 230-231.
Of Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 322, 326-340, 359-360, 365.
AWD Island 191-194; Shuttered 277; Sky 82.
HPL Man (online text) 209.
Synonym for Halloween. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 284; Yig (online text) 92.
RB Creeper (online text) 103; Satan 17.
Type of saurian. AWD Survivor (online text) 152.
Billing of Jed Price. AWD Survivor (online text) 162.
Sorcerer. RB Suicide (online text) 19, (20), 21-23.
Synonym for Yog-Sothoth. HPL Gates (online text) 439.
AWD Curwen 21; Gorge 126; Keeper greater than other Ancient Ones 141; Lurker 133, 135; Seal (online text) 160.
HPL Gates (online text) 436.
HPL Mound (online text) 144.
Synonym for: Shub-Niggurath.
Of Texas. REH Lost 64.
Possibly same as James Allison of Valley of the Worm, Marchers of Valhalla? Character in REH Untitled 36-37, (38).
Of Texas. REH Lost 65.
Almonsin
See: Almousin.
Of Leng. HPL Kadath (online text) (315-321), 322-323, 371, 376-379, (380), 382, 385-387, 391.
A dweller in Lomar. HPL Polaris (online text) 21-22.
Almouzin is a name of God in the Grand Grimoire. [Index of Angel names, magical words, and names of God, Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica, ret. 07/13/2024]
The name Almousin was mentioned in one of Charles Dexter Ward's invocations on the day he revived his ancestor Joseph Curwen, and also in Joseph Curwen's chant to invoke his ancient ally when confronted by Dr. Marinus Willett. Almousin is also mentioned in the composite name Almousin-Metraton, which is mentioned in salutations and closings to letters by Joseph Curwen and Simone Orne: "Sir, I am yr olde and true ffriend and Servt. in Almousin-Metraton," and "Brother in Almousin-Metraton." These phrases suggest that Curwen and Orne regarded themselves as servants or devotees of Almousin-Metraton. [HPL Case (online text)].
See Metraton and Sources of Necromancy in Charles Dexter Ward.
Note: In many editions of Lovecraft's stories, this name is spelled as Almonsin rather than Almousin. The corrected spelling Almousin is given in H. P. Lovecraft (ed. S. T. Joshi), Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition: Volume 2: 1926–1930, New York: Hippocampus Press, 2016.
Arab historian quoted on the subject of Irem. RFB Iram (online text) 118-119.
HPL Mound (online text) 106.
in Prague. HPL Case (online text) 194.
RFS Casket 12.
Los Angeles. Felipe Santiago's antique store was located on South Alvardo Street. [RB Strange]
Family. Ancestral country home was near Arkham. There were also seafaring Alwyns in Innsmouth. One of Innsmouth Alwyns, an uncle of Josiah Alwyn, built a home in Wisconsin in the 1850's. [AWD Beyond2]
AWD Beyond2 154-159, 161-170, 172-176.
Of Wisconsin. AWD Beyond2 153, (154), 155, (156-165, 167-174); Dweller 134.
One of the seafaring Alwyns of Innsmouth. A homely, froglike man, presumably the result of inbreeding with the Deep Ones. When he began being afflicted with the Innsmouth look, he moved to Wisconsin and left the cult of Cthulhu behind. He built a house in the wilderness and established contact with another of the elder beings, Lloigor or Ithaqua. The house was later inherited by Josiah Alwyn.
[AWD Beyond2 157-162, 164-165, 167, 170, last name mentioned 171, 172, 174-175.]
AWD Beyond2 (narrator), grandson of Josiah Alwyn 153, assistant librarian at Miskatonic U 154, Tony 155, great-nephew of Leander 157, 163. Note: His last name might not be Alwyn, even though one grandfather was an Alwyn.
Arabia. Desert area. RFB Iram (online text) 113.
Incl: Himyar; Irem; Saba, district of; San'a.
North Burial Ground, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 169.
HPL Museum (online text) Amazon Valley 217.
RB Terror 225.
New Hebrides. AWD Gorge 100-101.
Of Sandwin House. AWD Sandwin 92-93, 97-98, 109.
Of Vyones, Averoigne. CAS Holiness (online text) 119-135, 137-143.
"Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad . . . Initially possibly one of eight deities in the Hermapolite creation myth, his worship expanded. After the rebellion of Thebes against the Hyksos and with the rule of Ahmose I (16th century BC), Amun acquired national importance, expressed in his fusion with the Sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra (alternatively spelled Amon-Ra or Amun-Re). On his own, he was also thought to be the king of the gods. Amun-Ra retained chief importance in the Egyptian pantheon throughout the New Kingdom (with the exception of the 'Atenist heresy' under Akhenaten). Amun-Ra in this period (16th to 11th centuries BC) held the position of transcendental, self-created creator deity 'par excellence'; he was the champion of the poor or troubled and central to personal piety . . . his additional names were Re, Amun-Re, Khepri, Ra-Horakhty, and Atum." [Amun, Wikipedia, ret. 07/13/2024]
Harry Houdini referred to Amen as a god of primal Egypt. [HPL Pyramids (online text)]
Evil Amon-Ra frowns down as a sullen guardian in the purple pylons before the pyramids. [RB Opener]
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of ram-headed Amon. [RB Strange]
HPL Gates (online text) 434.
Cotton Mather affirmed that America is the Devil's paradise or the witches' paradise. [RB Satan]
American Archaeological Society
HPL Call (online text) will later publish much of the papers of the late George Gammell Angell 126, Angell attends 1908 meeting in St. Louis and hears tale of Inspector Legrasse 133.
American Psychological Society
HPL Time (online text) 403-404.
HPL Case (online text) alphabet 139.
RFS Warder language 156.
At Karnak, Egypt. [AWD Island 182]
Amon, Amon-Ra
See: Amen.
Pet, relative, or friend of Horvath Blayne; last name possibly Waite. AWD Island 192.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
Explorer. HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 28, 42.
"Anahuac is the ancient core of Mexico. Anahuac is a Nahuatl name which means 'close to water.' . . . Anahuac is sometimes used interchangeably with 'Valley of Mexico', but Anahuac properly designates the south-central part of the 8,000 km2 (3,089 sq mi) valley, where well-developed pre-Hispanic culture traits had created distinctive landscapes now hidden by the urban sprawl of Mexico City." [Anahuac, Wikipedia, ret. 07/13/2024]
Arthur Feldon mentioned Anahuac. [HPL Electric (online text)]
See d'Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo.
England. HPL Rats (online text) 27-29, 40: A town whose inhabitants feared nearby Exham Priory and hated the de la Poer family. The exact location is unclear, but when Delapore was removed from Exham Priory to an asylum, he was placed in Hanwell, just west of London. Also, Lovecraft stated in a letter that the location was in the South of England [Letter to Frank Belknap Long, 8 Nov, 1923; in Selected Letters I: 1911-1924].
Synonym for: Great Old Ones (3).
AWD Passing referred to in Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus; Sandwin 101.
Friends of Umr-a-tawil. HPL Gates (online text) 433, 435-437, 439-441.
An evil group of gods; synonym for Great Old Ones (3). For further information, see Elder Gods and Great Old Ones: God Terminology in Derleth's Mythos Stories.
AWD Beyond2 165; Island = Great Old Ones 179, 180, 182, 186, 188, 195, 197-198, 211-212; Curwen 21; Gable (online text) 207, 210, 213; Gorge 111, = Great Old Ones 121; Keeper 141, 144, 147, 149, 151, 157, 162, 165, 169; Lamp (online text) 254; Lurker 133; OutThere Mad evil genii who inhabited outer space before the world was born. Were defeated by Elder Gods and banished to various parts of the cosmos. Were mentioned in occult lore studied by Geoffrey Malvern and his friends; Seal (online text) 160, 162-163; Space war with Great Race 237, 238-242; Valley (online text) 127, 134-135; Whippoorwills 51, 70; Wind (online text) once ruled at Leng; Witches 301-303.
Aka: Older Gods.
A benevolent group of gods; synonym for Elder Gods (1). For further information, see Elder Gods and Great Old Ones: God Terminology in Derleth's Mythos Stories.
AWD Depths (online text) 235, 237, 240; Hastur = Elder Gods 11; Lair = Elder Gods 134, description 134-135; Sandwin 105, seals put upon them by the retreating Ancient Ones 106; Sky 68;
Combined name for good and evil gods, including both the Elder Gods (1) and the Great Old Ones (3).
AWD Sandwin 105.
HK Bells (online text) 86.
HK Eater (online text) who filter strangely between universes 12.
HPL Mountains (online text) 41.
AWD Curwen 10, 15; Keeper 140.
AWD Gorge 115, 122-126, 128-133.
Historical person. HPL Pickman (online text) 18.
Of Lima. AWD Gorge 97, 115, 122, Vibberto 122-123, 124-125, 128-130, 134.
AWD Hastur 17.
Of Bal-Sagoth. REH Gods (online text) 197.
Of Chicago; painter. HPL Call (online text) 138; Pickman (online text) 13.
HPL Call (online text) Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Brown University; eminent expert on ancient inscriptions; died, a childless widower, at age 92 in the winter of 1926-1927; died mysteriously after being jostled by a nautical-looking negro while walking uphill to his home from the Newport boat 126; left notes concerning Cthulhu cult in locked box later opened by his grand-nephew, who was both heir and executor 126-127; listened to the story of Henry Anthony Wilcox and his sculpture of Cthulhu 128-131; collected accounts of the dreams of aesthetes from Feb 28--Apr 2 1925, 131; and press cuttings about cases of panic, mania and eccentricity in the same period 132; attends American Archaeological Society meeting in St. Louis, 1908, and hears Inspector Legrasse's tale of Cthulhu worship in Louisiana 133; excited by Wilcox's tale because it dovetails with that of Legrasse 142; possibly killed by Cthulhu cult members with a poison needle 144; narrator adds Johansen narrative to Angell's tin box 154.
FL Terror2 288, 301, 310.
Partridgeville. FBL Hounds (online text) 84.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 177.
AWD Brotherhood 328-329, 335-336, 340, 342, 344, 348; Lamp (online text) 248, 256.
Cambodia.
Angkor Wat was built using remnants of knowledge from the pre-Flood era when humanity worshipped the Great Old Ones. [RB Strange]
AWD Island 178, 181-182; Space 235, 246.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 153-158, 162-163.
FBL Hounds (online text) 80-83, triangle 85; Space 92.
See also: geometry.
Welsh island. RB DarkIsle 93-95, 98.
Aka: Mona; Ynys Dywyll.
Sailor, of the Emma, swept up by the flabby claws of Cthulhu on the risen island of R'lyeh. HPL Call (online text) 152.
A "prince" of the netherworld, mentioned in the Seventh Book of Moses. [AWD Wentworth]
Crux ansata of Egypt. HPL Haunter (online text) 100.
JVS Snouted 25, 28.
A portion of a post-conquest Aztec work called Codex Chimalpopoca. The portion called Anales de Cuauhtitlan deals with the history of pre-Hispanic central Mexico, including the story of the priest-king Quetzalcoatl. Interestingly, the Codex Chimalpopoca has been mislaid by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City. As a result, the codex is now known only through photographs and copies. [Codex Chimalpopoca, Wikipedia, 06/20/2024]
Laban Shrewsbury said the Annals of Cuauhtitlan contains lore of the Nahua Indians of Mexico. The work includes an account of an "endless night," which Shrewsbury believed occurred during the battle between the Elder Gods (1) and the Great Old Ones (3). [AWD Island]
A series of eleven short stories or vignettes by Robert H. Barlow. Clark Ashton Smith told Barlow, "As for the people of your Annals . . . I am inclined that they must have lived on Antanôk, the lost, disrupted planet of which the asteroids are remnants." [CAS Pnom] Most of the episodes of "Annals of the Jinns" are available in issues of The Fantasy Fan from 1933-1935 on Project Gutenberg.
Antanôk
A planet between Mars and Jupiter that was blown up, becoming the source of the asteroid belt. The people of the "Annals of the Jinns" may have lived there. There was some intercourse between Antanôk and Earth at one time, and some authorities have suggested that colonists from Antanôk were the ancestors of the human race. [CAS Pnom]
More details about Antanôk are available in Clark Ashton Smith's The Master of Destruction (Synopsis and Fragment) at Eldritchdark.com.
HPL Haunter (online text) 106; Mound (online text) (131); Mountains (online text) throughout, climate 5, mountain ranges 71-72; Time (online text) 395, 400, 406, 417;
Lovecraft's city may be in Antarctica, under the plateau he called Leng. [RB Strange]
AWD Lurker 115-116; Seal (online text) 172; Space 235, 238; Wind (online text) in his delirium, Allison Wentworth raved of "strange hybrid men living under the snow and ice of Antarctica."
Incl: Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition; Mountains of Madness; Old Ones.
See also: inner city at the magnetic poles
Star cluster. AWD Lurker 137.
DW Fire2 (online text) 80, 81, 78.
Antarctica? HPL Fungi (online text) XV.
Of Texas. REH Lost 64-65, 68, 88.
AWD Gorge 130.
RB Satan 17.
A wiry young Greek slave, who was sent by L. Caelius Rufus with a message to Tarraco. [FBL Hills (online text)]
The god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld, in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian. [Anubis, Wikipedia, ret. 07/25/2024]
The Eyes of the Mummy narrator thought that myths of animal-headed gods, such as Anubis, might be allegories of remote times when primal earth held such monstrosities due to evolutionary mutations [RB Mummy]. An Egyptian cult of priest-sorcerers viewed their gods, including Anubis, as the representatives of actual Hidden Beings—monstrous beast-men who shambled on Earth in primal days [RB Fane]. According to the Daemonolorum, there was a sect of Egypt which believed that their gods, including Anubis, could assume human form [RB Brood]. According to Saracenic Rituals, Anubis was one of a number of strange hybrids who walked the earth when it was young; gigantic, lumbering creatures-half-beast, half-man [RB Sebek].
Anubis is the Opener of the Way, jackal-headed god who guards cryptic Karneter, and holds the keys to Life and Death. He is not a friend of those who rule. He stands in shadows, for he is the Keeper of Mysteries. It is written that an evil priest called the Master carved the first statue of the true form of Anubis; and that the statue now guards the Master's tomb. Archeologists Ronald Barton and Peter Barton discovered the tomb and found two images of Anubis. The first was a silver symbol on a door, with the heads of seven principal Egyptian gods: Osiris, Isis, Ra, Bast, Thoth, Set, and Anubis. The body appeared to be constantly changing, appearing variously as a mass of serpents, an array of vampiric flowers, a jumble of silver skulls, or a pattern of stars and planets. Beyond the door, the Bartons found a twelve-foot tall jackal-headed statue of Anubis. Ronald Barton hypnotized himself so his soul could enter the statue and open the way to the tomb of the Master. However, his body died in the process. When his grief-stricken son Peter assaulted the statue, it slew him. [RB Opener]
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of jackal-headed Anubis. [RB Strange]
Aka: Opener of the Way.
An African tribe. HPL Picture (online text) 119, 122, 124.
Aphrodisia: A Study of Erotic Stimuli Through the Ages
An unpublished scholarly work by Charles, an associate professor of medeival history who spent a year researching it after he lost his position at a university. Charles took the manuscript to Mark Thornwald for his advice. Thornwald was much taken by a love spell in the book, quoted from Ludvig Prinn's Grimoire, and decided to give it a try. [RB Philtre (online text)]
"In ancient Egyptian religion, Apis or Hapis, alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh, was a sacred bull or multiple sacred bulls worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of ancient Egypt. Initially, he was assigned a significant role in her worship, being sacrificed and reborn. Later, Apis also served as an intermediary between humans and other powerful deities (originally Ptah, later Osiris, then Atum)." [Apis, Wikipedia, ret. 07/13/2024]
While wandering drunkenly in New Orleans during Mardi Gras season, the Secret of Sebek narrator fantasized about mingling with the white-clad acolytes adoring sacred Apis in ancient Egypt. [RB Sebek]
The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Apis. [RB Strange]
According to Revelation 9:11, "A king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans." [Douay-Rheims Bible, quoted in Abaddon, Wikipedia 10/24/2020]
In a ritual left by John Grimlan to be performed after his death, Apolleon was identified with Malik Tous and Satan. [REH Dig (online text)]
"Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth)." [Apollo, Wikipedia, ret. 07/14/2024]
Arthur Feldon mentioned Apollo while chanting a series of names of Greek deities. [HPL Electric (online text)]
FL Terror2 295.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
(c. 1225–1274) "an Italian[6] Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily. Thomas was a proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of the light of natural reason and the light of faith. He embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity. He has been described as 'the most influential thinker of the medieval period' and 'the greatest of the medieval philosopher-theologians'." [Thomas Aquinas, Wikipedia, retrieved 06/28/2024]
Halpin Chalmers had work by Thomas Aquinas in his book collection [FBL Hounds (online text)].
HPL Call (online text) pathless deserts include center of Cthulhu/Great Old Ones cult, according to Castro 141; Descendant (online text) 362; History (online text) 52; Museum (online text) 217; Nameless (online text) 98-110; Silver (online text) 413; Time (online text) 373.
AWD Dweller 122; Gorge deserts 122; Keeper 140, 148-150, 170; Lamp (online text) 249, 251; Space 233, 245-247.
RB Faceless 37; An Arab guide hinted that the Necronomicon is still available in the Arab countries [Fane 131-133, 136, 138-139]; Mummy 287; Sebek 124.
Project Arkham suspected the Black Brotherhood of causing the plane crash that killed five United Nations delegates from Arab oil countries. [RB Strange]
REH Black (online text) 72; Fire (online text) 32, 38-41, 43, 45, 47. 50, 52-55, 58.
FBL WereSnake (online text) there are altars to Ishtar in Arabia.
CAS Return (online text) Arabian spices 38.
Incl: Kilabah, Abdullah bin Abi; Sufyan, Abu; Ad the greater; Alhazred; al-Ahbar, Ka'ab; Khallikan, Ebn; Mohammed; Mu'awiyah; Mukalla; Ad, Shaddad bin; Shaddad the Less; Shadid; Shedad.
Incl: Ad tribe; Aden; Al-Hijaz; Al-Sha'abi; Al-Yaman; City of Pillars; Crimson Desert; Dahna; Damascus; Damqut; El Nigro; Empty Space; Irem; Hadramant; Hazramaut; Himyar; Hymarites; Irem; Jadis tribe; Lamp of Alhazred; Mareb; Muscat; Nameless City; Oman; Roba el Ehaliyeh; Roba el Khaliyeh; Saba; Salalah; San'a; Sanaa; Suez; Tasm tribe; Thamood tribe; Tigris-Euphrates valley?; Timna; Yemen.
HPL Mountains (online text) 47.
where lies Irem. HPL Gates (online text) 426.
HPL Test (online text) 19.
HPL Statement (online text) 300.
HC Death (online text) 367-368.
HK Frog (online text) 108; Salem (online text) 253.
RAL Settlers (online text) Latin Necronomicon a translation from the Arabic 32.
RFS Warder 156.
CAS Return (online text) 33-34, 36, 38.
HPL Time (online text) 395.
Synonym for Irem; alternate spelling used in some translations of the Koran.
in Ooth-Nargai. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 85-86; Kadath (online text) 352, 357-358.
"Aratron (or Arathron), 'the alchemist who commanded seventeen million six hundred and forty thousand spirits'. He rules 49 provinces. His planet is Saturn." [Aratron, Wikipedia, ret. 07/14/2024]
The Hell on Earth narrator read of Arathron, one of the Seven Stewards of Heaven invoked in White Magic. [RB Hell (online text)]
Period lasting from 4.5 billion to 2 billion years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 12, 16, 19-20, 22, 25, 29, 30, 32-33, 37, 39, 41, 59, 66, 103.
Aka: Archaeozoic era.
HPL Mountains (online text) 19.
Synonym for: Archaean period.
HPL Gates (online text) 448.
HPL Gates (online text) 441, 443-444.
CAS Seven (online text) 60, (61), 62-65.
AWD Space 233; Valley (online text) 135.
HPL Museum (online text) 229.
AWD Beyond2 154; Island 201; Sandwin Arctic wastes 106.
Around which Kythamil revolves. HPL Gates (online text) 444.
AWD Dweller 137-138; Lurker 137; Sandwin 108-109.
Fantastic painter of possibly Cthulhu-influenced "Dream Landscape," a blasphemous contribution to the Paris spring salon of 1926. HPL Call (online text) 132.
Of Polynesia. HPL Aeons (online text) teachings of Ghatanothoa cult became merged into the esoteric lore of the Polynesian Areoi 276.
Incl: Fuentes.
A star. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 275, 278.
HPL Electric (online text) 70.
Fabled. HK Kralitz (online text) 4.
A place, in Scotland. Incl. Gordon, Sir Richard; Gordon, Lady Elizabeth.
Of Innsmouth; a Whateley? AWD Shuttered 271-273, 276-278.
HPL Mound (online text) 115.
Aristius
A character in the book Towers in the Sky, by Justin Geoffrey. Aristius had "thrown open Doors not meant for human hands, and had felt dark windows blow cold on his fear-mad face from Outer Gulfs." [REH Door]
HPL Mound (online text) 96.
HPL Yig (online text) 84, 87.
Kansas. HPL Mound (online text) 116.
Arkham (1)
City in Massachusetts. View the full article on Arkham.
A brig (a two-masted, square-rigged sailing vessel), one of two ships used on the Miskatonic Antarctic Expedition of 1930-31. The commander was Capt. J. B. Douglas. When the expedition set up a provisional camp on Ross Island, headquarters remained aboard the Arkham. The ship had a large wireless outfit, capable of communicating with the explorer's smaller wireless outfits anywhere in Antarctica, and also with the Arkham Advertiser's powerful wireless station on Kingsport Head, Mass. If the expedition lasted past the Antarctic summer, the explorers planned to winter on the Arkham. The ship remained in McMurdo Sound and relayed reports to the outside world on wave-lengths up to fifty metres. [HPL Mountains (online text)]
See: Arkham Advertiser.
Includes the centuries-old, ivy-covered Tuttle family vault. The vault was violated, one wall smashed, and the coffin of Amos Tuttle taken. [AWD Hastur]
In March 1883, the editor of the Arkham Gazette wrote a humorous article about the strangely coloured saxifrage at Nahum Gardner's farm. [HPL Colour (online text)]
The Arkham newpapers carried the story of Laban Shrewsbury's disappearance in 1915 and his unexpected reappearance in 1935. Probably they also carried the story of Andrew Phelan's disappearance and presumed suicide on September 3, 1938, since the story was carried further afield, in the Boston Herald. [AWD Curwen]
The Miskatonic University Library has volumes of the Arkham Gazette from a century ago. In the time of Alijah Billington, the Arkham Advertiser and the Arkham Gazette carried stories and letters about noises heard at night in Billington's Wood; the investigations by Rev. Ward Phillips, Deliverance Westripp, and John Druven; the latter's disappearance and the eventual finding of his mangled remains; the departure of Alijah and Laban Billington for England; and the disappearance of the Indian, Quamis. [AWD Lurker]
Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere's papers included a file of the Arkham Gazette. [AWD Survivor (online text)]
In 1920, the editor of the Arkham Gazette was an elderly man of almost 70. He was a member of the local District Board of Education and helped the new teacher, Mr. Williams, to find a room. He told Williams about Wizard Potter and the Potter family, and suggested that Williams consult the Necronomicon at the Miskatonic University Library. [AWD Witches 299, editor 299-301]
The curator of the Arkham Historical Society, E. Lapham Peabody, assisted the Shadow Over Innsmouth narrator in his genealogical researches. [HPL Innsmouth]
A small publishing company, founded in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft in hardcover. The firm also went on to publish many distinguished authors of fantasy and horror fiction. [Arkham House, Wikipedia]
Upton Gardner requested a copy of the Arkham House volume The Outsider and Others by H. P. Lovecraft. [AWD Dweller]
The Arkham Sanitarium was the site of Edward Pickman Derby's confinement, and of his apparent murder by his friend Daniel Upton, circa the late 1920s to early 1930s. [HPL Doorstep (online text)]
The presence of a sanitarium in Arkham makes it seem a little odd that the reanimated Allan Halsey was taken from Arkham to the asylum in Sefton ca. 1904. This suggests the possibility that the Arkham Sanitarium had not yet been built at that date.
Of Hancock County, Georgia. Mrs. Armer was a dabbler in the occult who had a book on witchcraft, a book on the occult, and a book by Abdul Alhazred (but not the Necronomicon). Mrs. Armer was murdered by her husband, probably with poison. After her husband remarried, Mrs. Armer's ghost returned and killed her husband, and later almost killed his wife. [HC Intruders]
Of Miskatonic University Library. HPL Dunwich (online text) 169-170, 176, 182 etc., age 186, description 193.
AWD Watchers 402.
FL Terror2 286-287, 293, 300, 309.
Of New York. AWD Lurker 137.
Son of Lord Leveredge. AWD Those 112-117.
HPL Case (online text) 133.
Better known as Ars Generalis Ultima or Ars Magna. A work by Raymond Lully, published in 1305. It provided a system of arguments to aid in converting Moslems to Christianity. ["Ramon Llull," Wikipedia]
Joseph Curwen had a copy of Raymond Lully's Ars Magna et Ultima in Zetsner's edition [HPL Case (online text)]. "Zetsner's edition" was a one-volume Latin edition of several of Lully's works, published by Lazarus Zetzner in Strasbourg, 1598. The Zetsner edition includes related works by Giordano Bruno and Cornelius Agrippa, authors whose speculative or occult tendencies may have been of interest to Curwen. The John Hay Library at Brown University has a copy, which is cataloged under the abbreviated title Raymundii Lullii Opera ea quae ad adinuentam ab ipso artem vniuersalem ... pertinent : vt et in eandem quorundam interpretus scripti commentarij: quae omnia ... edita sunt : accessit index ... locupletissimus. (Thanks to John Merritt for sending me details about the Zetzner edition.)
Ambrose Dewart found a copy in Billington House [AWD Lurker].
Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop [AWD Whippoorwills].
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 12.
"A writer to whom a number of alchemical texts are ascribed. Although the roots of the texts are unclear and the identity of their author obscure, at least some of them are Arabic in origin. He is named as the author of several books, the Ars sintrillia, Clavis sapientiae or Clavis maioris sapientiae, and Liber secretus." [Artephius, Wikipedia]
Author, Key of Wisdom [HPL Case (online text)].
Aka: Artephous.
Author, Key of Wisdom [AWD Lurker].
Synonym for: Artephius.
Short for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. See: Edgar Allan Poe.
DW Fire2 (online text) 78-89.
AWD Curwen 12.
REH Fire (online text) 40.
REH Children (online text) 156, (157-159), 161-164: A youth of the Sword People in ancient Britain, not yet old enough to bear the sword of a warrior. While on a hunting expedition with five others, he fell asleep during his watch. He was wounded and his comrades were all killed and mutilated by the Children of the Night. He called on the god of the Sword People, Il-marinen. He pursued the Children for vengeance and killed many before dying himself. Apparently he was an earlier incarnation of John O'Donnel.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 151.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 153-154, 175.
Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 321.
New Jersey. FBL Hills (online text).
Legatus of Cohors V. FBL Hills (online text) 290.
Mother of Marjory Ash. REH Hoofed 157.
Later Evelyn Gordon. REH Ring (online text) 56.
Daughter of Mrs. Ash. REH Hoofed 145, 148, 156-160, (161-163), 164-165, 168-169.
Of Miskatonic University; ancient history. HPL Time (online text) 406.
Ashtoreth
See: Astarte.
See: Asshurbanipal.
HPL Test (online text) 19, 54.
AWD Island 178-180; Curwen 12; Gable (online text) 200, 207; Gorge Southwest Asia 108; Hastur 2, 21; Ithaqua 111; Lurker 116; Sandwin 106; Seal (online text) 149, 159, 162; Valley (online text) 135.
REH Dig (online text) 79: According to Prof. John Kirowan, the Eight Brazen Towers of the Yezidees rise in the mysterious wastes of deep Asia; Skull (online text) Kathulos regarded the Asian races only as tools to advance his ultimate goal.
FBL WereSnake (online text) the worship of Ishtar extended over the whole of Asia.
Incl: Cambodia; China; French Indo-China; India; Mongolia; Tcho-Tcho people; Thibet.
HPL Aeons (online text) secret cults of Asiatics pose threat to Richard Johnson and others of Cabot Museum of Archaeology 265, swarthy Asiatics visit Cabot Museum 279.
"A king of demons in the legends of Solomon and the constructing of Solomon's Temple. His story features variously in Talmudic stories where he is the king of the shedim. The Quran refers to a 'puppet' in the Story of Solomon in Surah Ṣād verses 30-40, which is according to the mufassirūn (authorized exegetes of the Quran) referring to the demon-king Asmodeus (Sakhr). In Christian lore, Asmodeus is mostly known from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit. He is the primary antagonist and disrupts the marriages of Sarah. Peter Binsfeld classifies Asmodeus as the 'demon of lust'." [Asmodeus, Wikipedia, ret. 07/14/2024]
Edgar Gordon dreamed of the Dark One looking like Asmodeus—black all over, and furry, with green eyes, hog-snout, and the claws and fangs of some wild beast. When Edgar Gordon was incarnated by the Dark One, he also looked like Asmodeus. [RB Demon]
In mediaeval times, Nyarlathotep was regarded as the Black Man of the witch-cult, the emissary of Asmodeus and darker gods. [RB Faceless]
Phillips Keith identified Asmodeus as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. [RB Hell (online text)]
Azédarac entertained in privity the foulnesses that are older than Asmodai. [CAS Holiness (online text)]
Lawyer, cousin of Randolph Carter. HPL Gates (online text) 424-425, 427, 429, 446, 452-456, 458; Silver (online text) 418.
RB Sebek 124.
Assyrian king. REH Fire (online text) 32, 49-50.
AWD Island library of, in Nineveh 181.
Synonym for: Sardanapalus.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 179, 187; Electric (online text) 74; Mountains (online text) 5; hinted about the investigation of the death of Henry Sargent Moore Winged (online text) 253.
REH Fire (online text) 38-40, 43, 57.
FBL WereSnake (online text) Ishtar was the great mother goddess of the Assyrians.
RFS Warder 165.
JVS Dead cuneiform 30.
"Astarte is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess 'Aṯtart.' Aṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar . . . In various cultures Astarte was connected with some combination of the following spheres: war, sexuality, royal power, beauty, healing and - especially in Ugarit and Emar - hunting; however, known sources do not indicate she was a fertility goddess, contrary to opinions in early scholarship. Her symbol was the lion and she was also often associated with the horse and by extension chariots. The dove might be a symbol of her as well, as evidenced by some Bronze Age cylinder seals. The only images identified with absolute certainty as Astarte are these depicting her as a combatant on horseback or in a chariot." [Astarte, Wikipedia, ret. 07/14/2024]
Zadok Allen mentioned Ashtoreth when talking about the cult in Innsmouth. [HPL Innsmouth (online text)]
Shub-Niggurath is described as "a kind of sophisticated Astarte." [HPL Mound (online text)]
Astarte is another name for Ishtar. [FBL WereSnake (online text)]
asteroid belt
See: Antanôk.
Home of Panfilo de Zamacona y Nunez. HPL Mound (online text) 113, 130.
HK Hydra (online text) 128, 135-136.
See also: souls, immortal.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 153, 158-159, 161.
AWD Lurker (60); Sandwin Lloigor's movements limited by need for full moon and Arcturus above the horizon 108; Whippoorwills (46).
See: celestial objects
Of Ulthar, in dreamlands. HPL Cats (online text) innkeeper's son who sees the cats circling the cotters' cottage 57-58; Other (online text) young priest, disciple of Barzai, who told him where the black cats go on St. John's Eve128, accompanies Barzai in the doomed ascent of Hatheg-Kla 129-131, after Barzai's seizure by the other gods, refuses ever to pray for his soul 132; Kadath (online text) (310), 311-314, 353.
Athammaus
The chief headsman of Commoriom. He was descendant of a long line of headsmen stemming from the mythic generations of the primal kings down to his father, Manghai Thal. As headsman, he wore the blood-bright purple of his office, and wielded the great copper sword of justice on the block of eighon-wood. He also owned a short falchion and a great billhook. He was much honored by the King Loquamethros and by the populace of Commoriom. He struck off the head of Knygathin Zhaum three times, but failed to keep Zhaum from coming back to life in successively more monstrous forms. Due to this failure, Athammaus and all the other inhabitants of Commoriom were forced to flee the city. Later, Athammaus was headsman of Uzuldaroum and lived to an advanced age. [CAS Testament (online text)]
REH Dark (online text) 78-80, 84-86; Gods (online text) 187~234: A sometime enemy and sometime companion of Turlogh O'Brien. Gray-eyed, blond, and of huge stature, a good half head taller
than Turlogh who stood well above six feet. Originally of Wessex. He had a yearning for the sea even when he was a shock-headed child in Wessex. While still a youth he killed a young eorl (noble) and fled the vengeance of his people. He found refuge in the Orkneys, and the ways of the Vikings were more to his liking than the ways of his own blood. But he came back to fight against Canute, and when England submitted to his rule, he was given command of Canute's house-carles, thus incurring the envy of Danes and Saxons alike. When a Saxon thane and a Danish jarl assailed him with fiery words at a feast, he slew them both. So England was again barred to him and he resumed the Viking path. Turlogh thought him a strange man,
this renegade Saxon who hunted with the wolf-pack of the
North—a savage warrior in battle, but with fibers of kindliness in his
makeup which set him apart from the men with whom he consorted. On their first meeting, Athelstane unsuccessfully defended Thorfel's skalli from an attack Turlogh and by Brogar's Picts. Athelstate was felled by Turlogh's axe, leaving a thin white scar on his temple. But, after the priest Jerome interceded, Turlogh spared Athelstane's life. Later, they fought again during a storm when the ship of Lodbrug the Viking, with Athelstane aboard, attacked a French vessel where Turlogh was the only warrior in the crew. This time Athelstane spared Turlogh, merely knocking him out with the flat of his sword. Later they washed up on the shores of the Isle of the Gods and helped Brunhild regain the queenship. After her death, the two joined up with Don Roderigo del Cortez of Castile on the Gray Friar, on a mission to harry the Moorish
Corsairs.
; Hun 151-153; Twilight 66, 89.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 169.
AWD Brotherhood 328, 330, 337, 346.
A sea captain in Celephaïs. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 86.
HPL Iranon (online text) 113.
Town en route Gardner to Greenfield. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.
HPL Gates (online text) 435.
Spider-god beneath Voormithadreth. AWD Lurker 135.
CAS Seven (online text) 55-56, spends eternity bridging the chasm 56, 57-58, 66.
New Jersey. HPL Case (online text) 178, 185, 230.
AWD Island 191, 212; Curwen 31; Gorge 108; Lurker 122; Valley (online text) 132, 138; Seal (online text) 150, 164; Sky 80; Wood source of wood carving 74, R'lyeh underneath it 77, 87.
Incl: Isle of the Gods.
HPL Aeons (online text) rumors of Ghatanothoa cult in ill-fated Atlantis 276; Descendant (online text) great land in the west that had sunk (361), Ignatius Donnelly's account of 361; Haunter (online text) 106; Medusa (online text) cities in Hoggar region of Sahara 171, 173, Atlantean magic 181, 187, 193; Mist (online text) 282*; Mound (online text) 137, 152; Mountains (online text) 47; Test (online text) 19, 42, 46-47, 54; Time (online text) middle kingdom 395; Whisperer (online text) Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton 254.
RB DarkIsle 93; Faceless fell sometime after Nyarlathotep worship was stamped out in Egypt 41.
Atlantis was destroyed by the period of great earth upheavals called the Flood. [RB Strange]
CAS Testament (online text): Tribute was sent to Commoriom from the shores of the Atlantean sea.
AWD GodBox 121; Island 184; Keeper 170; Lurker 122, 124; Gorge 108.
REH Hyborian (online text) probably different from the Atlantis of Smith's stories; Untitled 37; Shadow (online text); Dark (online text) 87.
REH Skull (online text): Atlantis was located between Africa and South America. In ancient times, the ape-like ancestors of today's white race defied the Atlanteans. Before the land sank, Kathulos the Atlantean mage, along with ancient kings and grim wizards, drank a potion to enable them to sleep underwater for long eons. After his return in modern times, Kathulos planned to revive the living dead of Atlantis and establish a new world empire.
HK Invaders (online text) 70, 73; Spawn2 (online text) throughout, including 67, 79-81, 83.
FBL Hounds (online text) 79.
RFS Warder 164.
Short for The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria, by W. Scott-Elliot. A work on lost continents written by a Theosophist follower of Helene Blavatsky. It was originally two separate works, published in 1896 and 1904, and reprinted in a combined edition starting in 1925. [From a 1968 printing by the Theosophical Publishing House]. The online texts are available at the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
The book was cited in Prof. Angell's notes on the Cthulhu cult. Perhaps Angell found the theme of sunken continents to be reminiscent of sunken R'lyeh [HPL Call (online text)].
Hellenic deity. AWD Lurker 122.
A popular science book, originally titled L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire, by the French astronomer Camille Flammarion, published in 1888.
A tiny man man assured Doctor Wycherly that he would never find a copy of a book like Flammarion's Atmosphere in a bookstore [HH Guardian]. However, it does not appear to be quite that rare; copies are currently listed for sale at websites such as abebooks.com.
RB Steeple (online text) 227-229.
AWD Island (need to look up page references).
By H. P. Lovecraft. AWD Curwen 14.
New York. HPL Diary (online text) 303, 306.
A story published in Jan, 1922 Whispers. HPL Unnameable (online text) 202.
REH Bear 36; Black (online text) 57.
See Atys.
En route Boston to Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152.
Of Miskatonic University Physics (and meteorology). HPL Mountains (online text) 4, 11, 14-15, 26.
FL Terror2 269, co-inventor of magneto-optic geoscanner 293, 298, his father 300.
Of Providence (temporarily); antiquarian. AWD Survivor (online text) (narrator) 148, (149), 150, (151-154), 155.
HPL Fungi (online text) XI.
Name of a god that 19th-century scholars wrongly conflated with the god Attis. Lovecraft was probably following this usage, so his references to "Atys" should be read as "Attis." The god Attis was "the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology. His priests were eunuchs, the Galli, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself. Attis was also a Phrygian vegetation deity. His self-mutilation, death, and resurrection represents the fruits of the earth, which die in winter only to rise again in the spring. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Attis transformed himself into a pine tree." [Attis, Wikipedia, ret. 07/15/2024]
Arthur Feldon referred to Atys while reciting the names of various Greek deities [HPL Electric (online text)].
The name Atys was carved in the sub-cellar beneath Exham Priory. The priory's owner, Delapore, was disturbed by the mention of Atys, for he "had read Catullus and knew something of the hideous rites of the Eastern god, whose worship was so mixed with that of Cybele." Delapore mentioned Atys in a rant after he killed Edward Norrys. [HPL Rats (online text)]
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 21.
New Zealand. HPL Call (online text) Aukland correspondent of the Sydney Bulletin reported the Emma and its crew to have an excellent reputation 146, Emma cleared Auckland on February 20, 1925 149.
AWD Gorge 103, 107.
Maine. HPL Doorstep (online text) 287.
Bishop of Hippo. AWD OutThere While visiting Hydestall Cathedral, used a star-stone inscribed with a Latin prayer to re-imprison Something from Out There after it was set free by the mad monk Clithanus. Exiled Clithanus to Rome; Passing bishop over Clithanus, who sent the spawn of Cthulhu back to the sea.
HPL Gates (online text) 443; Time (online text) 368, 395, 403-404, submerged in the past 405, 406-407.
An earthquake near R'lyeh was felt in Australia. The unexplored region of Australia that Lovecraft describes may offer up its secrets. [RB Strange]
AWD Island 195; Curwen 13; Gorge 99.
FL Terror2 296.
Incl:
Boyle, Dr. E. M.; Blackfellows; Buddai; Mackenzie, Robert B. F.; Tupper;
Dampier St.; De Grey River; Great Sandy Desert; Joanna Spring; Pilbarra; Warburton's Path of 1873.
Incl: Vienna.
France. HPL Medusa (online text) 181.
Avaloth is a fiendish being with revolting habits, treated of at some length by the fifth of the Eltdown Shards. [RFS Warder]
Avaloth is not easily discernible. In Elder Times, Avaloth plagued the earth with a strange growth of ice and snow that crept southward, swallowing up the forests and the mountains. The wizard Om Oris pitted dark magic against Avaloth. The outcome of the contest is not known, but the ice fields began to dwindle and finally vanished. Wizards of that day maintained that Avaloth could only be destroyed by a great heat, such as could not be created at that time, although certain of the wizards foresaw that one day it should be. It appears that Avaloth was sealed in a small casket in ancient times. When Wesson Clark opened the casket, the invisible Avaloth absorbed all the warmth from the room and crushed Clark, sucking all the blood out of his veins. Meanwhile, an accidental fire burned the house down. There was a high-pitched, agonized whistling sound, evidently because Avaloth was trapped by the flames. It is not clear whether Avaloth survived long enough to escape when the upper floors collapsed. [RFS Casket]
AWD Curwen 45.
Aka: Doorways to Outside.
Of Boston Churchyard. HPL Herbert (online text) 160.
France. HPL Aeons (online text) incl. Chateau Faussesflammes 269.
CAS Holiness (online text) 119-121, 123, 126, 131-133, 142.
Averoigne was located immediately to the northeast of Ulthar [CAS Pnom].
Incl:
CAS Holiness (online text) 119, 137-138.
Synonym for: Clement.
See: Zend-Avesta.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
Town en route Concord to Fitchburg. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.
Aylesbury
See: Aylesbury.
See: Aylesbury Pike.
The "Aylesbury Road" seems to be either a synonym for the Aylesbury Pike, or perhaps a name for a section of road that continues west from Aylesbury Street in Arkham and later becomes the Aylesbury Pike.
The Tuttle house was on the Aylesbury road, near the Innsmouth Turnpike. After Paul Tuttle took possession, passengers along the Aylesbury Road heard strange sounds emanating from the Tuttle house late at night. [AWD Hastur 1, 3-8, 22-24, 31, 33] David had heard about the Tuttle affair on the Aylesbury road. [AWD Sandwin 105]
Incl: Tuttle house.
Arkham. Uriah Garrison's house was on Aylesbury Street. The property on which it stood had considerable value due to the expansion of Arkham along the Aylesbury Pike. [AWD Attic 308, 324, 327]
Laban Shrewsbury's house was on Aylesbury Street. [AWD Curwen 36]
A newspaper in Aylesbury. The Aylesbury Transcript ran a humorous paragraph about the monster said to be hiding at Cold Spring Glen near Dunwich. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 179]
The Aylesbury Transcript ran facetious stories about strange occurrences at Dunwich in the summer of 1928, culminating in September. [AWD Watchers 402]
Luther Whateley's effects included stacks of the Aylesbury Transcript. The paper ran three vague articles which corroborated entries in Luther Whateley’s ledger, including one about cows and sheep slain by an unidentified wild animal near Dunwich, one about the disappearance of Ada Wilkerson, and another about the violent death of Howard Willie. [AWD Shuttered 270, 280, 282]
Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere had a file of the Aylesbury Transcript. [AWD Survivor (online text) 160]
The Ancient Ones (2) resemble demons such as Azarael. [AWD Seal (online text)]
Azarael is evidently an alternate spelling for Azrael, the angel of death in Islam. [Azrael, Wikipedia]
See also: Azriel.
See: Azathoth.
A book of nightmare-lyrics by Edward Pickman Derby, which made a real sensation when issued in his eighteenth year [HPL Doorstep (online text)].
Georg Reuter Fischer was inspired to write poetry after finding a copy of Azathoth and Other Horrors at a secondhand store in Arkham. After Fischer's death in 1937, police discovered a copy of Azathoth and Other Horrors in a copper and silver casket along with some writings by Fischer. [FL Terror2]
"In the Hebrew Bible, the name Azazel represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was sent during Yom Kippur. During the late Second Temple period (after the closure of the Hebrew Bible canon), Azazel came to be viewed as a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge, as described in the Book of Enoch. His role as a fallen angel partly remains in Christian and Islamic traditions." [Azazel, Wikipedia]
At Dunwich Village in 1747, the Rev. Abijah Hoadley preached that the cursed voices of Azazel and other demons had been heard from underground. [HPL Dunwich (online text); AWD Watchers]
The Bishop Azédarac had subterraneous connections with Azazel and the Old Ones. [CAS Holiness (online text)]
Probably a misspelling or alternate spelling for Azathoth. Albert Keith dreamed of a ritual where the name Azazoth was chanted. Reverend Nye spoke of Azazoth. Cthulhu is the priest of Azazoth and Yog-Sothoth. [RB Strange]
Bishop of Ximes, Averoigne. [CAS Holiness (online text) 119-123, 126, 129, 133, 136-137, 139, 141-143]
An ancient town in Israel. [Azekah, Wikipedia]
Laban Shrewsbury quoted Joshua 10:11 "As they fled from before Israel . . . the Lord cast down great stones upon them in Azekah, and they died. . . ." Shrewsbury cited this as an example of ancient myths about catastrophes that reflected the war between the Elder Gods (1) and the Great Old Ones (3). [AWD Island]
According to the Seventh Book of Moses, "AZIEL is a very prompt treasure-spirit of the earth and of the sea. He appears in the form of a wild ox."
Fred Hadley read of Aziel in the Seventh Book of Moses. [AWD Wentworth]
See: Al-Azif.
AWD Gorge 108, 115.
Edgar Gordon had seen “Azozath” in dreams prior to learning of their half-mythic existence in the legendary lore of ancient days. [RB Demon]
Azozath is probably a misspelling of Azathoth. In some reprintings of RB Demon, "Azozath" is printed as "Azathoth."
Phillips Keith identified Azriel as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil. [RB Hell (online text)]
In this instance, Azriel is probably an alternate spelling for Azrael, the angel of death in Islam. [Azrael, Wikipedia]
See also: Azarael.
HPL Electric (online text) 68.
Of Mexico. HPL Electric (online text) 72, 74, 77-78; Mound (online text) language 131, 137; Yig (online text) 83.
AWD Keeper 140; Seal (online text) 151, 163; Space 244.
RB Notebook (online text) 236; Sorcerer (online text) 155.
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