The Necronomic Mythos by Crazy Abdul Alhazred

“Ph-nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”

“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”

The Necronomic Mythos

“Nor is it to be thought that man is either the oldest or the last of Earth’s masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth’s field, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man’s truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may; not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. lA! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, and after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.”– Abdul Alhazred, Necronomicon

(From “The Dunwich Horror” — H. P. Lovecraft)

“I have from my youth up, desired and prayed unto God for pure and sound wisdom and understanding of truths natural and artificial, so that God’s wisdom, goodness, and power bestowed in the frame of the world might be brought in some bountiful measure under the talent of my capacity. . . So for many years and in many places, far and near, I have sought and studied many books in sundry languages, and have conferred with sundry men, and have laboured with my own reasonable discourse, to find some inkling, gleam, or beam of those radical truths. But after all my endeavours I could find no other way to attain such wisdom but by the Extraordinary Gift, and not by any vulgar school, doctrine, or human invention.”

Dr. John Dee
SLOANE MS. 3I88: circa 1582 “There are things known; there are things unknown, and inbetween are the doors.”

Jim Morrison

There are those who believe the Necronomic Mythos are a work of fiction, created by H.P. Lovecraft, and then elaborated upon by various artists of the same genre. There are those who ascribe legitimacy to the mythos claiming rediscovery by Lovecraft who introduced them into popular literature, drawing off the work of the Elizabethan magus, Dr. John Dee. The Necronomic Mythos are not the result of a single work but rather encompass mystical/occult knowledge from different civilizations, spanning many centuries. The Necronomicon, according to Hinterstoisser, “is not a single work by one man — Alhazred — but a compilation of magical material from Akkadia, Babylonia, Persia and Isreal. . . It claims to contain the remnants of a magical tradition pre-dating mankind.” The Mythos pertain to non-human intelligences who ‘tread the deeps of space between the stars’ and their dominion over the Earth. Dr. Dee, with his work on Enochian Magic, or Angelic Language, is known as ‘the first to leave any detailed account of human traffic with denizens of the dimensionless gap between universes.’ According to George Hay, “Lovecraft attributes to Dee the only English translation of the Necronomicon. . . Dee is one of the few great magical adepts of the past who can present us with some practical evidence of the existence of non-human entities.” This brings us to my ongoing research project: to determine the nature of contact and interaction between the civilizations of Earth and off-planet civilizations.