H P Lovecraft August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)
Howard Phillips “H. P.” Lovecraft August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)
H.P. Lovecraft the American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tiamat of the Enuma Elish (Epic of Gilgamesh) … bearing a remarkable resemblance to HP Lovecraft’s description of Cthulhu … The Kraken is AWAKE!
Invocation of Cthulhu
Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia
Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia
Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia Ia
Oh great old one Thee I invoke
Oh lord of madness Thee I invoke
Oh tentacled one thee I invoke
Oh god of enjoyment thee I invoke
Oh high priest thee I invoke
Oh messenger of the old ones Thee I invoke
Son of nug Thee I invoke
Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die Thee I invoke
free and wild and beyond good and evil Thee I invoke
God of the Mi-Go. Thee I invoke
God of the Deep Ones Thee I invoke
By Yog-Sothoth, By Shubb Niggeruth, By Azathoth Thee I invoke By Dagon Thee I invoke
Cthulu,Satan,Shiatan,Set,lucifer,Tiamat,Levathan,Beezlbub, Typhon Whatever name I call thee let thy supreme enjoyment and chaos shine thru me oh Cthulu who will rise when the stars are right. Teach me your ways!
Cthulu Come thou forth and dwell in me and make all spirits subject onto me so that every spirit of the firmament and of the either above the earth and under the earth on dry land and in the water of whirling air and of rushing fire and every spell and scourge of the gods may be obedient onto me!
ia ia ia ia ia ia
HP Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature