Sho-Gath

[AWD GodBox]: A being that was long trapped at Stonehenge in a "god-box." The box was three inches by five by three deep. It was made of copper and bound with bands of silver or silver-alloy. It was covered with intricate, but somewhat crude, carvings. On the bottom was an inscription, which Prof. Curtin said was Druidic, though there is no mention of the specific script or language that was used. Conceivably the inscription was in Ogham, Latin, or Norse Runes. Curtin translated the inscription as "What is sealed herein is from outside, called Sho-Gath, not meant for human sight. Dreadful woe shall take him who breaks the Chant. It is delivered unto the guardian of The box." Curtin thought the the "guardian" referred to was one of the Druid priests.

It is curious that a Druid box should have been found at Stonehenge, for Stonehenge dates to 3100-1600 BC and the Celts arrived in Britain a thousand years later [Stonehenge, Wikipedia; Celtic Britons, Wikipedia]. Further, Prof. Curtin said that the name Sho-Gath "is not druidic. It's Atlantean, as far as I can make out . . . Quite as if the thing had been inadvertently called up out of the sea or from the vicinity of the sea.”

At some point, the box was taken from Stonehenge and stored at a museum in or near Salisbury. Philip Caravel stole the box from the museum by substituting a replica. Sho-Gath's suitably decrepit guardian-priest arrived, apparently from his grave, to ask for the box and command "by the Sign of Koth" that it not be opened. (It is not clear why the guardian did not make an appearance earlier, when the item was first excavated and moved to a museum.) In any case, Caravel started to disassemble the box. Sho-Gath emerged, looking like "a pillar of smoke with malignant eyes and a ghastly travesty of a face." Sho-Gath apparently tore Caravel apart and burst his house asunder. Then the guardian-priest reappeared and led Sho-Gath away. At this point, Sho-Gath looked like a black cloud of smoke, higher than the house. However, the priest successfully induced him to return to a small container (either the original box or a different one).

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