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DAGON
”Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon
“It was called, she said, “The Esoteric Order of Dagon”, and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the East a century before, at a time when the Innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren.”
“‘All in the band of the faithful - Order o’ Dagon - an’ the children shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an’ Father Dagon what we all come from onct … Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga - ‘”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
“Dagon his name, sea-monster, upward man
And downward fish; yet had his temple high”
John Milton, Paradise Lost
”Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon
“It was called, she said, “The Esoteric Order of Dagon”, and was undoubtedly a debased, quasi-pagan thing imported from the East a century before, at a time when the Innsmouth fisheries seemed to be going barren.”
“‘All in the band of the faithful - Order o’ Dagon - an’ the children shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an’ Father Dagon what we all come from onct … Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtaga - ‘”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
“Dagon his name, sea-monster, upward man
And downward fish; yet had his temple high”
John Milton, Paradise Lost
HECATE
“Satan here held his Babylonish court, and in the blood of stainless childhood the leprous limbs of phosphorescent Lilith were laved. Incubi and succubae howled praise to Hecate, and headless moon-calves bleated to the Magna Mater.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror At Red Hook
“Torch-bearing Hekate holy daughter of great-bosomed Nyx.”
“He (Odysseus) shall pour on the shore offerings for thee, unhappy one, fearing the anger of the three-necked goddess (Hekate), for that he shall hurl the first stone at thy (Hekabe’s) stoning and begin the dark sacrifice to Haides.”
Lycophron, The Alexandra
O three-formed (triformis) Hecate, and ye gods by whose divinity Jason swore to me … I have yet curse more dire to call down on my husband – may he live.”
Lucius Annaeus Senecca, Medea
“In appearance she was frightful, and serpents hung hissing around her shoulders.”
Lewis Spence, An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
“Some people claimed that Hecate stood 100 feet tall and roamed the countryside with a pack of wild hounds.”
Mysteries Of the Unknown-Witches and Witchcraft
YOG-SOTHOTH
“Imagination called up the shocking form of fabulous Yog-Sothoth — only a congeries of iridescent globes, yet stupendous in its malign suggestiveness.”
H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum
H. P. Lovecraft, The Horror in the Museum
“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 fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.”
H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
“…great globes of light massing toward the opening, and not alone these, but the breaking apart of the nearest globes, and the protoplasmic flesh that flowed blackly outward to join together and form that eldritch, hideous horror from outer space, that spawn of the blankness of primal time, that tentacled amorphous monster which was the lurker at the threshold, whose mask was as a congeries of iridescent globes, the noxious Yog-Sothoth, who froths as primal slime in nuclear chaos beyond the nethermost
outposts of space and time!”
H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, The Lurker At the Threshold
NEREID
“Trident-bearing Neptune was there, and sportive tritons and fantastic nereids, and upon dolphins’ backs was balanced a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Strange High House In the Mist
“Opiate oceans poured there, litten by suns that the eye may never behold and having in their whirlpools strange dolphins and sea-nymphs of unrememberable deeps.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Azathoth
“Nereids-Sea nymphs of the Mediterranean: the fifty granddaughters of Pontus the sea god and Gaea the earth mother. They have some relationship to the mermaids of other seas and oceans, and like them are extremely beautiful, but they do not have fishtails.”
Michael Page & Robert Ingpen, Encyclopedia Of Things That Never Were
H.P. Lovecraft, The Strange High House In the Mist
“Opiate oceans poured there, litten by suns that the eye may never behold and having in their whirlpools strange dolphins and sea-nymphs of unrememberable deeps.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Azathoth
“Nereids-Sea nymphs of the Mediterranean: the fifty granddaughters of Pontus the sea god and Gaea the earth mother. They have some relationship to the mermaids of other seas and oceans, and like them are extremely beautiful, but they do not have fishtails.”
Michael Page & Robert Ingpen, Encyclopedia Of Things That Never Were
SIREN
“Onward unswerving and relentless, and tittering hilariously to watch the chuckling and hysterics into which the siren song of night and the spheres had turned, that eldritch scaly monster bore its helpless rider; hurtling and shooting, cleaving the uttermost rim and spanning the outermost abysses;”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath
“These maidens later appeared, much like the Harpies, as the lower half of a bifd and above the waist the torso and head and arms of a woman.”
“By the later periods of development and the influence of Christianity, the image of the Siren seems to have been equated with that of the northern mermaid whilst retaining the name Siren and in some cased the original description.”
“Isidore of Seville gave them scales and webbed feet.”
Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters & Dragons
MERMAID
“22-Mermaid Legend—Encyc. Britt. XVI—40.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book
“This is the name of a female water being in the form of a beautiful young woman from the head to the waist, the rest of her body being like the tail of a huge fish.”
“Even the ancient accounts, as well as the more modern ones, mention the appearance of these supernaturals in conjunction with misfortune and disaster, although occasionally they can be benevolent.”
Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters and Dragons
MARTIN’S BEACH HORROR
“The object was some fifty feet in length, of roughly cylindrical shape, and about ten feet in diameter. It was unmistakably a gilled fish in its major affiliations; but with certain curious modifications such as rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral fins, which prompted the widest speculation. Its extraordinary mouth, its thick and scaly hide, and its single, deep-set eye were wonders scarcely less remarkable than its colossal dimensions;”
H.P. Lovecraft & Sonia H. Greene, The Horror At Martin’s Beach
H.P. Lovecraft & Sonia H. Greene, The Horror At Martin’s Beach
