I’ve Been Wanting To Get This Off Of My Chest
There is something that has been bothering me for a while now. I think that now is as good a time as any to get it out.
Iä Iä C’thulu ftagn
Iä Ph’nglui mglw’nafh
Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
Iä Shub-Niggurath n’sawp tk’li
Ya Shub-Niggurath K’n-yan Cybele Exham
Exham Shub-Niggurath io p’ag gof’nn hupadgh
Iä Tsathoggua naf’k y’el p’ag Dholes
Ya Tsathoggua Yaddith Eibon Yuggoth
Yuggoth k’el gurath io Byatis
Iä Azathoth g’ta k’teel
Ya Azathoth gof’nn Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep p’ag N’gi
Iä Yog-Sothoth p’ael Yibb-Tstll
Ya Yog-Sothoth s’slo Tawil At-U’mr
Tawil At-U’mr s’slo Aforgomon
Iä Idh-yaa pyg’nn C’thulu
Ya Idh-yaa m’threo n’sawp
N’Sawp Ghatanothoa n’sawp Ythogtha
Iä Idh-yaa pyg’nn C’thulu
Ya Idh-yaa m’threo n’sawp
N’Sawp Zoth-Ommog n’sawp Cthylla
Iä Dagon gof’nn C’thulu
Ya Dagon S’othis Thoosa
Thoosa p’ag C’thulu
Iä Iä C’thulu ftagn
Spoiler Alert: You should probably not have read any of that out loud.
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I have no idea what that means, but it kinda freaks me out.
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:24 am
It’s a chant from Lovecraft about Chultu a demonitic figure that will wipe out the world. and I blame Jason
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:31 am
WHY THE HELL WASNT THAT WARNING AT THE TOP DAMNIT!
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Odd D&D quote I saw many years ago:
“Okay, so the scroll just says ‘Hastur, Hastur, Hastur’ on it? Why would somebody put ‘Hastur, Hastur, Hastur’ on a scroll? Hey, Bob, do you know what ‘Hastur, Hastur, Hastur’ might mean?”
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
What, everyone hasn’t been told not to read that stuff out loud already at the Boy Scouts? (“Preferably don’t read it at all – which means, don’t expose others to this unnecessarily.”)
I get the feeling that the guy who delivered that lecture, after some research, had been slightly damaged by it himself… I mean, last I heard of him, he was working somewhere in the EU bureaucracy in Brussels.
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I never could figure out how to pronounce ftagn. ):
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Hmm you know i just realized that it was probably a bad idea to read this repeatably while listening to Metallica’s The call of Kutlu.
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June 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Please tell me you’ve seen the rip-off Chick Tracts of Cthulhu’s arrival?
It’s here: http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/index.html
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Fuh-tah-gan is how I pronounce it meself.
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June 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
If I remember right, it’s vocalized in the computer game (Dark Corners of the Earth) more like Fuh-tong-h. Then again, the same character ate rats and was more then a little off.
clues comm.1.211
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
HEH i love this. Cradle of Filth references Lovecraft and the Necronomicon a lot in their albums!!!
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June 18th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
guys anyone know how too get rid of the Cthulu thats now in my room
guys
guys?
ah crap………..
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I’ve got a giant plush Cthulhu sitting on my bookshelf. He lords over all from his perch.
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Morgan reply on January 20th, 2014 4:13 am:
Mine has a beanbag throne on the good end of the couch.
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June 19th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Hmm, I think it’s Old One for “Pie Doesn’t Have Tentacles!”
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Hey, my CAPTCHA is in Leng-speak….
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June 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I believe it’s more Fa ta gen
Both a’s pronounced long
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June 19th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
And if you ever find your self dreaming of non-euclidean geometric architecture… you’re screwed!
Great timing skippy, just got myself a Cthulhu inspired tattoo over the weekend. I must say it turned out quite nicely :)
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June 20th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Is that the marching song of the Deep Ones?
T.
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June 20th, 2008 at 5:00 am
You shall not defeat me, for I have the power of the Goddess to see the great blue wombat!
“Mine brain has meditated on the spinning of The Chao;
It is hovering o’er the table where the Chiefs of Staff are now
Gathered in discussion of the dropping of The Bomb;
Her Apple Corps is strong!
“Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Her Apple Corps is strong!
“She was not invited to the party held on Olympic;
So she threw a Golden Apple, ‘stead of turned the other cheek!
Oh, it cracked the Holy Punchbowl and it made the nectar leak;
Her Apple Corps is strong!
“Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Her Apple Corps is strong!
“For the Apple Hera offered Paris all the wealth she could;
Athena promised that his enemies bodies would be strewed;
But Aphrodite offered Helen – and EVERYONE got screwed!
Her Apple Corps is strong!
“Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Grand (and gory) Old Discordia!
Her Apple Corps is strong!”
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Stickfodder reply on June 20th, 2008 12:57 pm:
what is that?
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Ix reply on June 20th, 2008 3:54 pm:
The Discordian Anthem. I’ve only ever read it in the Principia, before now.
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skippy reply on June 20th, 2008 8:30 pm:
I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised that there are people who read my site are Discordians.
Minty reply on June 21st, 2008 2:46 am:
Fnord.
flyleaf Ethelbert!
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Dexx reply on March 11th, 2009 9:44 pm:
Exactly, but I don’t really agree about the bit with the fnords in it. Too chocolate for my tastes.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I used to read an interesting webcomic set in the Lovecraft-a-verse. It’s over now, though.
http://tcow.comicgenesis.com/
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June 20th, 2008 at 11:39 am
You have watch what put on the Internet, I still get nightmares about the half wit who down load a copy of the Necronomicon on that internet page and the trouble that was.
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June 21st, 2008 at 4:05 am
Vote for C’thulu: When you’re tired of choosing the lesser of two evils.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
to ward away evil summoned one must:
1. deny its exsistance, for a god is no more a god if no one believes in him any more
2. takes salt, silvers shavings and amethyst dust and create a circle and reverse that ritual, it will seal the creature again
3. dont believe that 2 con artists were able to translate texts from a people who barely left writings, into a full working spell book, and i know for fact that the rosetta stone has no sumerian text on it.
4. dont believe that 1 of said conmen mysteriously vanished leaving his house for sale to future led zepplin front man, his disappearance leads many to believe he messed with bad stuff, or he got caught in the cookie jar
5. cthulu was created when law and order seemed unbalanced, as many ancient religions. so if i recited fancy unintelligible words i can bring Sprague de Camps Conan the Cimmerian to life to pillage and loot?
or then the sexy red nails or Set?
remember my words
magic has no power over those who not give it power
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Minty reply on June 24th, 2008 1:57 am:
“1. deny its exsistance, for a god is no more a god if no one believes in him any more”
I’ve always been of the opinion that actually looking something in the eye and saying “I deny you!” smacks of ineffective methodology, simply because you have to acknowledge the thing’s existence first. Ergo, just ignoring it, much like a child throwing a tantrum, will cause it to become bored and leave.
“2. takes salt, silvers shavings and amethyst dust and create a circle and reverse that ritual, it will seal the creature again”
Any idiot who summons something without making sure it’s sealed beforehand gets what they deserve, in my opinion.
“if i recited fancy unintelligible words i can bring Sprague de Camps Conan the Cimmerian to life to pillage and loot?
or then the sexy red nails or Set?”
We can only hope…:)
Captcha: “Fairmount conquest” Brain overloading with too many dirty, dirty images…
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StoneWolf reply on September 10th, 2008 12:02 am:
I think Minty covered everthing well except last sentance “magic has no power over those who not give it power”. Bad english aside, how the hell do you know? Bullets work just fine, yet the Native Amerians and Africans initially thought it was magic and so denied its power. They still died when they got shot. Also, the Ghost Dance shirts, which the Natives did “give power” to failed. Finally, I have yet to witness any event in which someone praying to their god/s/ess actually helped, despite the fact that praying to it is giving it power.
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October 31st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Random thought: In the greater scheme of things (the stars and galaxies sort of big), two revered, wise elder-types having a long debate over their respective religions (pick any two you like, they all work for this example) is rather a lot like two twelve year old girls debating who would kiss better, Captain Jack Sparrow or William Turner.
Always remember, in the ant farm that is our world, we will never truly perceive the beings on the other side of the glass…. unless some uppity little b@$+@rd decides to knock us off the desk. Then we’ll all have lots of room to explore the universe free of many if not all restraints.
Admittedly, many of us will end up squished or sucked into a vacuum, but we can’t all have glorious ends – though amusing is something everybody should aim for given the opportunity. Immortality via YouTube?
(The Captcha is ‘blaze of’: appropriate, I think since this little bunch of comments is discussing various higher beings – each of us puny mortals are no more memorable than a shooting star in an eternity of skywatching. I’d like to be one of those people who flash bright enough to make someone Up/Out/Down there blink as I go past.)
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