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Acolyte, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 7, Summer 1944
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Commoriom (not Athammaus) returned to the city after its public evacuation, and found that it was peopled most execrably and numerously by the fissional spawn of Knygathin Zhaum, which possessed no vestige of anything human or even earthly. Ech-Pi-El, I am sure, can furnish much fuller data concerning the genesis of Tulu (Cthulhu) than I am able to offer. It would seem, from the rather oblique references of Pnom, that Tulu was a cousin of Hzioulquoigmnzhah, but was somewhat closer to the Azathothian archetype than Hzioulquoigmnzhah. The latter god, I learn, together with Ghisghuth, was born of Cxaxukluth in a far system. Cxaxukluth came en famille (family already included in Ghisguth's wife, Zstylzhemgni, and the infant Tsathoggua) to Yuggoth (where, I may add, Cxaxukluth has most mercifully continued to sojourn throughout the aeons. Hzioulquoigmnzhah, who found his parent slightly uncongenial owing to Its cannibalistic habits, emigrated to Yaksh (Neptune) at an early age; but, wearying of the peculiar religious devotions of the Yakshians, went on to Cykranosh, in which he preceded by several aeons his nephew Tsathoggua. (Tsathoggua, with his parents, lingered a long while in Yuggoth, having penetrated certain central caverns beyond the depredations of Cxaxukluth.) Hzioulquoigmnzhah, a rather reflective and philosphic deity, was long worshipped by the quaint peoples of Cykranosh but grew tired of them even as of the Yakshians; and he had permanently retired from active life at the time of his encounter with Eibon as related in The Door to Saturn. No doubt he still resides in the columned cavern, and still quenches his thirst at the lake of liquid metal--a confirmed bachelor, and sans offspring. My account of Tsathoggua's terrene advent can readily be reconciled with the references in The Mound. 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. Later, he established himself in caverns nearer to the surface, and his cult thrived; but after the coming of the ice he returned to N'Kai. Thereafter, much of his legend was forgotten or misunderstood by the dwellers in the red-litten caverns of Yoth and the blue-litten caverns of K'n-Yan. Through such mythopoetic variations, Gll'-Hathaa-Ynn came to tell the Spaniard Zamarcona that only the images of Tsathoggua, and not Tsathoggua himself, had emerged from the inner world.... LIGHT FANTASITC I step along the garden path (Repatterned by the night wind's wrath) Into a frenzied filigree Of mists and moonshine. Spun for me To scatter with a single stroke As effervescent as the smoke Of seared and burning phoenix flesh That fades within the tangled mesh Of mad creation. Then I heard The singing of a phantom bird. And woke and walked again--and found A second phantom on the ground. Then smiled, as one who sips an acrid wine. Those flaccid lips, those sightless eyes--were mine! ---Arthur Kennedy -- 10 --
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Commoriom (not Athammaus) returned to the city after its public evacuation, and found that it was peopled most execrably and numerously by the fissional spawn of Knygathin Zhaum, which possessed no vestige of anything human or even earthly. Ech-Pi-El, I am sure, can furnish much fuller data concerning the genesis of Tulu (Cthulhu) than I am able to offer. It would seem, from the rather oblique references of Pnom, that Tulu was a cousin of Hzioulquoigmnzhah, but was somewhat closer to the Azathothian archetype than Hzioulquoigmnzhah. The latter god, I learn, together with Ghisghuth, was born of Cxaxukluth in a far system. Cxaxukluth came en famille (family already included in Ghisguth's wife, Zstylzhemgni, and the infant Tsathoggua) to Yuggoth (where, I may add, Cxaxukluth has most mercifully continued to sojourn throughout the aeons. Hzioulquoigmnzhah, who found his parent slightly uncongenial owing to Its cannibalistic habits, emigrated to Yaksh (Neptune) at an early age; but, wearying of the peculiar religious devotions of the Yakshians, went on to Cykranosh, in which he preceded by several aeons his nephew Tsathoggua. (Tsathoggua, with his parents, lingered a long while in Yuggoth, having penetrated certain central caverns beyond the depredations of Cxaxukluth.) Hzioulquoigmnzhah, a rather reflective and philosphic deity, was long worshipped by the quaint peoples of Cykranosh but grew tired of them even as of the Yakshians; and he had permanently retired from active life at the time of his encounter with Eibon as related in The Door to Saturn. No doubt he still resides in the columned cavern, and still quenches his thirst at the lake of liquid metal--a confirmed bachelor, and sans offspring. My account of Tsathoggua's terrene advent can readily be reconciled with the references in The Mound. 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. Later, he established himself in caverns nearer to the surface, and his cult thrived; but after the coming of the ice he returned to N'Kai. Thereafter, much of his legend was forgotten or misunderstood by the dwellers in the red-litten caverns of Yoth and the blue-litten caverns of K'n-Yan. Through such mythopoetic variations, Gll'-Hathaa-Ynn came to tell the Spaniard Zamarcona that only the images of Tsathoggua, and not Tsathoggua himself, had emerged from the inner world.... LIGHT FANTASITC I step along the garden path (Repatterned by the night wind's wrath) Into a frenzied filigree Of mists and moonshine. Spun for me To scatter with a single stroke As effervescent as the smoke Of seared and burning phoenix flesh That fades within the tangled mesh Of mad creation. Then I heard The singing of a phantom bird. And woke and walked again--and found A second phantom on the ground. Then smiled, as one who sips an acrid wine. Those flaccid lips, those sightless eyes--were mine! ---Arthur Kennedy -- 10 --
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