V
A person. HPL Case (online text) 215.
A person or entity. HPL Diary (online text) 306, 308, 310, 312.
Johannesburg. Thomas Slauewite stayed there. [HPL Winged (online text) 255]
HK Salem (online text) 262. Includes the words: “Ya na kadishtu nilgh’ri . . . stell’bsna kn’aa Nyogtha . . . k’yarnak phlegethor. . . .”
Of Santa Rita. RB Terror 251.
By Robert Blake. A story. HPL Haunter (online text) 94.
Egypt. RB Fane 133.
See: Lost Valley.
Chile. HPL Aeons (online text) Eridanus en route to Valparaiso when risen Mu island is sighted 265, Cabot Museum curator Pickman travels to Valparaiso 266; Call (online text) 145.
HPL Diary (online text) serpent-men of Valusia 318; Haunter (online text) 106; Mountains (online text) 47, 69; Time (online text) 395.
AWD Curwen 22; Lurker 133; Sky 68.
REH Hyborian (online text); Shadow (online text); Dark (online text) 87;
See also: Serpent-men.
HPL Diary (online text) 303; Medusa (online text) vampiric serpent hair 200.
Family. HPL Diary (online text) 304-305, 308, 315, 320, 322.
HPL Diary (online text) 312-314, 319.
Of Leyden. HPL Diary (online text) 311.
HPL Diary (online text) 306, 308, 321-322.
HPL Diary (online text) 316.
HPL Diary (online text) 308.
Of Nyangwe. Thomas Slauenwite sent to Dr. Vandervelde for Congo types of Diptera. [HPL Winged (online text) 248, 249]
HPL Medusa (online text) 170.
Joseph Curwen's library included Van Helmont [HPL Case (online text)]. This is probably a reference to one of the following:
- Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580–1644), "a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be 'the founder of pneumatic chemistry'. Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his 5-year willow tree experiment, his introduction of the word 'gas' (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation." [Jan Baptist van Helmont, Wikipedia, ret. 07/12/2024]
- Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (ca. 1614–1698), "a Flemish alchemist and writer, the son of Jan Baptist van Helmont. He is now best known for his publication in the 1640s of his father's pioneer works on chemistry, which link the origins of the science to the study of alchemy. From his early work as a physician, he became a kabbalist and together with Henry More of the Cambridge Platonists he annotated Christian Knorr von Rosenroth's translations of kabbalist texts." [Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, Wikipedia, ret. 07/12/2024]
Owner of books in House in the Oaks. REH House (online text) 125.
Family. HPL Man (online text) 207-209.
HPL Man (online text) disappeared from New Paltz 209.
Uncle of Daniel Morris. HPL Man (online text) 208.
Of Wijtgaart. Ancestor of Daniel Morris. HPL Man (online text) 207.
Grandson of Nicholas Morris; ancestor of Daniel Morris; of Rensselaerwyck and Esopus. HPL Man (online text) 207-208.
Coroner's physician, of Bloemfontein. HPL Winged (online text) 242, 243, 263.
New Orleans. RB Mummy 284-285; Sebek 115, 117-124, 126-129.
Illustrator of Nameless Cults. REH Roof (online text) 4.
HPL Test (online text) 19.
Rome. AWD Lurker 125.
Vaults of Zin
See: Zin, Vaults of.
"The Vedas . . . are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism." [Vedas, Wikipedia].
Laban Shrewsbury said that the Vedas include accounts of catastrophes caused by the war between the Elder Gods (1) and the Great Old Ones (3). [AWD Island]
HK Hunt (online text) 168.
Synonym for: Iod.
A star. HPL Case (online text) 141; Mound (online text) 106.
HPL Gates (online text) 430, 440.
HK Hydra (online text) Around the Center of Ultimate Chaos 141.
AWD Wood 82.
In temple of Elder Ones, Inganok. HPL Kadath (online text) 362.
Peter Mace had a Latin manuscript of the unexpurgated edition of what is now The Veil Unseen. It may have been the source of some of the spells that Mace recited to resurrect his lost love, Maureen Kennedy. [HC Isle (online text)]
"Immanuel Velikovsky (. . . 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1895 – 17 November 1979) was a Russian, Israeli, and American scholar. . . His books use comparative mythology and ancient literary sources (including the Old Testament) to argue that Earth suffered catastrophic close contacts with other planets (principally Venus and Mars) in ancient history. . . In general, Velikovsky's theories have been ignored or vigorously rejected by the academic community." [Immanuel Velikovsky, Wikipedia]
Velikovsky's theories of "astronauts" from other planets are symbols of the journeyings of the Great Old Ones through space and time. [RB Strange]
Author, Worlds in Collision. [AWD Island]
RB Terror 224-225.
California. RB Kiss (online text) 44.
Author, History (online text). RB Sorcerer (online text) 161.
HPL Diary (online text) lords of, came to civilize our planet 313; Time (online text) 395.
AWD Island 182; Space tree-men from 238; Whippoorwills 43.
AWD Sandwin 111.
Of Babylon. AWD Island 181.
HPL Electric (online text) 63.
Artist. AWD Wood 82.
HPL Whisperer (online text) 208-209, 212-214, university 215, 245.
AWD Dweller 133; Gable (online text) 206; Seal (online text) 163; Valley (online text) 135; Witches 300.
Incl: Akeley, Henry; Brattleboro; Fred?, Uncle; Lucy?, Aunt; Osborne?, Willie; Pritchett?, Cap; Warren's farm?
Vermis Mysteriis, De
See full article at: De Vermis Mysteriis.
AWD Curwen 32.
Of Britain. AWD OutThere Oxford student, one of four friends of Geoffrey Malvern who were sent down because of a scandal relating to their practice of sorcery. Later helped Dr. William Currie reimprison the creature Something from Out There.
Singer in the show On the Beam [RB Hell (online text) 39].
A Briton; earlier incarnation of Richard Brent. REH People (online text) 150-152, (153), 155-158, 160-163.
Chief town of the Bhlemphroims on Cykranosh. CAS Door (online text) 32-33, 35.
HH Guardian 291-293, 295-296: A planet where Kathulhn and Tlaviir lived in the city of Bhuulm.
Also incldes: Abhorred Continent of Dluuhg; Wise Men of Vhoorl.
A centurion. FBL Hills (online text) 293.
Viburnia
A descendant of P. Viburnius Marco who mated with (or possibly was raped by) one of the Little People, named Ghoth the Burrower. Their descendents included Llunwy of Wales and H. P. Lovecraft. [HPL Family (online text)]
Viburnia gens
A noble extended family of ancient Rome, founded by Nyarlathotep. [HPL Family (online text)]
Incl: L. Viburnius Marco, P. Viburnius Marco, Nyarlathotep, Viburnia.
At Newburyport. HPL Case (online text) 133.
Trapeze artist at the Stellar Brothers Circus [RB Elephant (online text) 49-50].
HPL Hound (online text) 177.
HPL Mountains (online text) 7, 29, 35, 87.
Austria. HPL Case (online text) 164.
AWD Gorge 98, 114; Lurker 138; Space 229.
REH Dig (online text) 76: John Conrad met old Von Boehnk in Vienna.
Incl: Corey, Nathaniel; Von Boehnk.
A freighter. HPL Call (online text) 145, 154.
AWD Gorge Vilgilant 111.
REH Gods (online text) 188, 191, 210, 218, 233.
RB DarkIsle 94-114.
"Viracocha (also Wiraqocha, Huiracocha; Quechua Wiraqucha) is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America. According to the myth Viracocha had human appearance and was generally considered as bearded. According to the myth he ordered the construction of Tiwanaku. It is also said that he was accompanied by men also referred to as Viracochas. . . Viracocha eventually disappeared across the Pacific Ocean (by walking on the water), and never returned. " [Viracocha, Wikipedia]
Timoto Fernandez compared Viracocha to a tentacled, jelly-like creature (possibly Cthulhu, or one of his servants) that he saw in an underground lake near Machu Picchu. Fernandez pointed out that Viracocha is seldom represented with serpents issuing from his body, so does not typically resemble the creature he saw. However, Fernandez conceded that both the jelly creature and Viracocha represent the sea, and said that Viracocha is said to mean 'White Foam of the Waters.' [AWD Curwen] The Viracocha article at Wikipedia says the name could be translated as "Sea Foam" or possibly as "lake of origin and of the end of all things." Per Brave Search, "while Viracocha has some associations with the sea, his primary role in Inca mythology is as a creator god, and he is not exclusively a sea god." ["is viracocha a sea god?", Brave Search, 12/05/2024]
Aka: White Form of the Waters. Possible synonym for: Cthulhu.
Western, caverns. HPL Mound (online text) 115, 160; Rats (online text) 26-27, 32-33; Time (online text) 373.
FL Terror2 295.
REH Roof (online text) 5.
Incl: Delapore family;
Carfax; Winchester;
FL Terror2 296.
"The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th Century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing and systematizing the 5th century understanding and interpretation of the Buddhist path as maintained by the elders of the Mahavihara Monastery in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka." [Visuddhimagga, Wikipedia]
Laban Shrewsbury said the Buddhist Visuddhi-Magga included accounts paralleling those of other ancient texts, about catastrophes caused by the war between the Elder Gods (1) and the Great Old Ones (3). [AWD Island]
By Eunapius. Latin title of an originally Greek work, the Lives of Philosophers and Sophists. [Eunapius, Wikipedia]
A copy was found in a hidden room in the house of the late Asaph Peabody. It seems a relatively innocent work for inclusion in a library that was otherwise dedicated to the occult. [AWD Peabody]
Uriah Garrison's library included an old book by Eunapius; it was probably Vitae Sophistrarum since that is the only complete surviving work by Eunapius. [AWD Attic]
RFS Mists 25-27.
REH Black (online text) 59, 71.
Legendry of the Negro culture. AWD Survivor (online text) 162.
Traditional Haitian name for the folk religion better known as Voodoo.
One of the Lofoten Islands. AWD Spawn 19-20, 26-32, 34.
REH Dig (online text) 76: An old man whom John Conrad met in Vienna, and who said that he had known John Grimlan in Berlin fifty years before.
Von Däniken's "chariots of the gods" are symbols of the journeyings of the Great Old Ones through space and time. [RB Strange]
Author, Black Cults [HC Isle (online text)]. Possibly the same as Hendrick Von Heller, M.D., the mightiest brain in medical circles; the man who understood what other men merely feared. A huge man with bearded face and great thick shoulders. [Hugh B. Cave, "Murgunstrumm," in Murgunstrumm and Others. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa, 1977. Thanks to Rick Lai for pointing out this linkage in his article "Notes on 'The Voice of Zarnak'". ]
Von Junzt, Friedrich
See: Von Junzt, Friedrich.
A decentralized folk religion of Haiti, also known as Vodou, Vodun, or Voudoun. The religion is descended from the faiths of various West African peoples, including the Yoruba and Fon, with some admixture of Roman Catholicism. The religion worships a number of deities or loa with specialized powers, who can be persuaded by elaborate ritual offerings to help the devotees with their problems. The most distinctive feature of the faith is the practice of trance possession, in which some of the devotees are believed to temporarily become vessels for the personalities of their gods. Outsiders to Voodoo often identify it with black magic and devil worship. [Haitian Vodou, Wikipedia 10/25/2020]
HPL Call (online text) 132-133, 136-137, 139; Rats (online text) 31, 44.
HC Death (online text) 364; Pits a secret cult in Haiti worships deities called the Old Ones, including Tulu, Yig, Nigguratl-Yig, Nug, and Yeb.
REH Dig (online text) 73: John Conrad spoke of voodoo as one of the darker, grimmer phases of the occult that interested John Grimlan.
Of the dreamland. A kind of amphibious terror found in pools on the island of Oriab. Sometimes their voices can be heard howling in the distance. They dare not approach the slopes of Mt. Ngranek. [HPL Kadath (online text) 330]
AM White2 (online text) voor 127, voorish dome in Deep Dendo 127, kingdom of Voor 130, voor 149.
Compare with: Voorish sign.
Of antique shop on South Kinnikinnic. RB Sorcerer (online text) 154-156, 158-161.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 184.
Subhuman savages who lived in the Eiglophian Mountains of Hyperborea.
CAS Seven (online text) 42-44, origin 44, 45-46, 49-54, 59.
CAS Testament (online text): A somewhat aboriginal race, with an ethnic heritage of the darkest and most revolting type. The voormis dwelt in the black Eiglophian Mountains at a full day's journey from Commoriom, and inhabited according to their tribal custom the caves of ferine animals less savage than themselves, which they had slain or otherwise dispossessed. They were generally looked upon as more beast-like than human, because of their excessive hairiness and the vile, ungodly rites and usages to which they were addicted. Knygathin Zhaum was half-voormi and recruited his outlaw band mostly from among the voormis.
CAS Pnom: Sfatlicllp, the granddaughter of Tsathoggua, mated with a voormi and gave birth to Knygathin Zhaum.
AWD Curwen 22; Keeper 141; Lurker 84, 133; Sky 68; Whippoorwills 47.
Eiglophian Mountains, Hyperborea. CAS Seven (online text) 4246, 48, 50-53.
Incl: Abhoth; Archetypes (2); Atlach-Nacha; Ezdagor; Haon-Dor; Old Ones (6); Raphtontis; Serpent People; Tsathoggua; Voormis
Cavern of the Archetypes;
High magistrate of Commoriom and third cousin to King Homquat. (Hyperborea.) CAS Seven (online text) 42-52, (53), 54-66.
CAS Pnom: visited the Cavern of the Archetypes.
See article at: Vorvadoss.
France. AWD Six 124.
Aka: Roelocke, Joseph. REH Ring (online text) 61-65.
California. Unincorporated community later renamed Paradise Crest, and still later absorbed into Los Angeles. FL Terror2 267-268, 272-273, 287, 312.
Includes: Fischer, Anton; Fischer, Georg Reuter; Reuter, Marie
Averoigne, France. CAS Holiness (online text) 119-121, 124-125, 133, 141.
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