CHUTULU HULA AND OTHER GAMES IN SATANISM
.Attack of The Satanic Octopus!
Disproving the Necronomicon by Grand Magister Blackwood.
After listening to several people talk about a insurgence of people who seemingly think Chutulu or Kutulu Cultic figures and or archetypes are relevant to Theistic Satanism pull up a chair and let me take you on a journey where I will look you straight in the eye and tell you this.
Brother or Sister please read something else, but lets move forward or slither?
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was one of the most influential horror writers of our times. Lovecraft was born into a wealthy family in Providence, Rhode Island, but led a tragic life thereafter. At the age of five, his father was committed to an asylum, and his grandfather died nine years later, leaving his family nearly bankrupt.
Nonetheless, the young Lovecraft read prodigiously, going through everything from the Iliad to dime-store novels, and later publishing articles on astronomy in the local papers.
In 1914, Lovecraft became involved in amateur journalism, in which members submitted their poetry and fiction to various small journals in hopes of receiving constructive criticism.
Lovecraft at first considered himself a poet, but then begin writing fiction for these journals. Lovecraft’s pieces during this period included “The Tomb”, “Dagon”, and “The Hound”.
Lovecraft saw his first professional sale in 1921, with his sale of “Herbert West — Reanimator” to the magazine Home Brew, and this success encouraged him in 1923 to send his stories to the pulp Weird Tales, where much of his work appeared in later years.
In the same year as his first professional sale, however, his mother died, and Lovecraft was left bereft until he met Sonia Green, another amateur press member. The two married and moved to New York from 1924-1926, but they separated when financial difficulties and mutual incompatibility proved too much. Upon his return to Providence, Lovecraft began one of his most productive periods, writing two short novels (“The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”) along with many short stories, including the horror classics “The Call of Cthulhu” and “The Colour out of Space”.
But here we go as you probably are bored with all this history of Rhode Island!
In this period, Lovecraft’s Mythos began to take on a definite form. He would often create various elements — the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred’s evil book of magic called the Necronomicon, the witch-haunted town of Arkham, the gods Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep — which he used in his stories to give an alien tone to his work.
Unlike many other authors, who would create such items for just one work and then move on, Lovecraft continued to refer to them in his new stories. In doing so, Lovecraft not only had fun with his in-jokes and fictional cosmology, but built up an internally consistent system of lore which enthralled his readers.
As the years went on, Lovecraft wrote less and less, even as his stories became longer and more intricate. Among his later masterpieces were “The Haunter of the Dark”, “The Shadow out of Time”, and the novel “At the Mountains of Madness”. Lovecraft became increasingly discouraged by the rejections of his work, and near the end of his life became too ill to answer his correspondents. On March 15, 1937, Lovecraft succumbed to cancer and Bright’s disease at Jane Brown Memorial Hospital in Providence.
By most of our society’s standards, Lovecraft was a failure.
He spent most of his life unemployed, showed little romantic attachment, had few friends in Providence, and lived most of his life in Providence under the care of his mother or his aunts. Even when he set out to become a writer, he was financially unsuccessful; he spent much of his time too tired or depressed to write, and diverted a great deal of his energy to his letters or revising others works for a pittance instead of writing his own fiction.
At the same time, he made friends across the country through his letters, and was always willing to help younger writers when they needed advice on their fiction. Though his stories may be few in number, they more than make up for this in quality. In this sense, Lovecraft was a success.
Even during Lovecraft’s lifetime, many authors liked to take his creations and add them to their stories. Although no one asked his permission to do this, Lovecraft agreed and even mentioned his imitator’s creations in his own stories. It was through this sort of literary in-jokes that the Cthulhu Mythos came into being.
Almost like the Bible!
Lovecraft was an exceedingly well-read man, but here are a few of the authors most pertinent to our discussion:
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): Poe hardly needs an introduction. Lovecraft encountered Poe’s work at the age of eight, and many of his early stories, including “The Hound” and “The Alchemist”, are very much in Poe’s style. Poe remained important to Lovecraft later, and HPL’s novella “At the Mountains of Madness” is a loose continuation of Poe’s “The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket”.
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957): Dunsany was a master of the fantastic tale long before there was a fantasy genre. He set a large number of his tales in the lands of dream at the edge of the world, a precedent which Lovecraft later followed in his Dreamlands tales. Dunsany’s book The Gods of Pegana also deserves mention here, as it was one of the first attempts at creating a wholly artificial mythos and probably impacted Lovecraft’s decision to do the same.
Arthur Machen (1863-1947): A Welsh author whose greatest work may be his autobiographical The Hill of Dreams. Horror fans know him best for his short tales of horror, including “The White People” and “The Great God Pan”. Machen’s fiction was built on then-popular anthropological theories that the myths of faeries and witches were based on historical fact, and may have influenced Lovecraft’s cults of the Old Ones.
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933): An American author who wrote many historical and romance novels, but is mostly remembered today for his horrific short stories from The King in Yellow (1895), named after a fictional play that drove men mad. Lovecraft did not read Chambers until 1926, so he was not as much of an influence on Lovecraft as many have thought, but Lovecraft did make use of some names from his fiction, such as Hastur (which originally appeared in Ambrose Bierce) and the Yellow Sign.
For the avid reader this huge chunk of information will be helpful, but as I have read almost all of these books that I could find I find myself generally bored with the writings of Lovecraft and the hundreds of “spin-offs” or should I say “spin-outs.”
But we shall continue onto the Necronomicon and the Book of Myth popularized by a Hollywood Cult Classic, The Evil Dead!
But just what Lovecraft think of his own works and how much does this relate to Sumeria, these are all coming, but let me continue on Lovecraft’s Lore., in his own words!
by H. P. Lovecraft
(The original essay by Lovecraft, circulated among his friends for years and not published until after his death.
Original title Al Azif - azif being the word used by the Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d to be the howling of daemons.
Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sana�, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A. D. He visited the ruins of Babylon & the subterranean secret of Memphis & spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia – the Roba El Khaliyeh or “Empty Space” of the ancients – & “Dahna” or “Crimson” desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits & monsters of death.
Of this desert many strange & unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon(Al Azif) was written, & of his final death or disappearance (738 A. D.) Many terrible & conflicting things are told.
He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight & devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have been the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, & to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals & secrets of a race older than mankind.
He was only an indifferent Muslim, worshiping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth & Cthulhu.
In A. D. 950 the Azif, which had gained a considerable tho’ surreptitious circulation among the philosophers of the age, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople under the titleNecronomicon. For a century it impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and burnt by the patriarch Michael.
After this it is only heard of furtively, but (1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Middle Ages, & the Latin text was printed twice – one in the 15th century in black-letter (evidently in Germany) & once in the 17th – (prob. Spanish) both editions being without identifying marks, & located as to time & place by internal typographical evidence only.
The work (both Latin & Gk.) was banned by Pope Gregory IX in 1232, shortly after its Latin translation, which called attention to it. The Arabic original was lost as early as Wormius’ time as indicated by his prefatory note & no sight of the Greek copy (which was printed in Italy bet. 1500 & 1550) has been reported since the burning of a certain Salem man’s library in 1692.
A translation made by Dr. Dee was never printed, & exists only in fragments recovered from the original MS. Of the Latin texts now existing one (15th cent.) is known to be in the British Museum under lock & key, while another (17th cent.) is in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris.
A 17th cent. edition is in the Widener Library at Harvard, & in the library of Miskatonic University at Arkham. Also in the library of the Univ. of Buenos Aries. Numerous other copies probably exist in secret, & a 15th century one is persistently rumored to form part of the collection of a celebrated American millionaire. A still vaguer rumor credits the preservation of a 16th cent.
Greek text in the Salem family of Pickman; but if it was so preserved, it vanished with the artist R. U. Pickman, who disappeared early in 1926. The book is rapidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, & by all the branches of organized ecclesiastic ism. Reading leads to terrible consequences. It was from rumours of this book (of which relatively few of the general public know) that R. W. Chambers is said to have derived the idea of his early novel “The King in Yellow”.
H. P. Lovecraft
Chronology
Al Azif written circa 730 A. D. at Damascus by Abdul Alhazred
Tr. to Greek 950 A. D. as Necronomicon by Theodorus Philetas
Burnt by Patriarch Michael 1050 (i.e. Greek Text) – Arabic text now lost
Olaus translates Gr. to Latin 1228
1232… Latin Ed. (& Gr.) suppr. By Pope Gregory IX
14… black-letter edition published (Germany)
15… Gr. text printed in Italy
16… Spanish printing of Latin te
Lovecraft was rather crafty as Stephen King or Clive Barker both are as they intertwine reality and other forces of myth and lore to make the reader actually believe the stories and fiction they are creating within the pages they are writing.
But what about Sumeria?
First of all, the Absu has more recently been re-interpreted as Apsu or Abzu, the name by which it is mentioned in most modern works on Mesopotamian mythology that I have seen.
Thus, if you’re looking for information on “Absu” to confirm or debate what I say here, you can look under these names.
So, what is the Absu? Is it merely the Mesopotamian equivalent of the Christian Hell?
No, Absu was originally the consort of Tiamat, which was the Female Dragon.
He plotted with his vizier Mummu to destroy the gods because of the noise they made.
The wise god Ea (also called Enki) then cast a spell which put Absu to sleep, and then slew him.
Ea set up his dwelling place in the middle of Absu. (See James B. Pritchard’s Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, p. 61, for the original of this myth.)
From his origins, one might expect the place made out of Absu to be pretty nasty.
However, mythology tells us otherwise. This is what Jeremy Black and Anthony Green’s Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary has to say about it:
…it was anciently believed that springs, wells, streams, rivers and lakes drew their water from and were replenished from a freshwater ocean which lay beneath the earth in the abzu (apsû) or engur… The abzu was the particular realm and home of the wise god Enki (Ea), his wife Damgalnuna (Damkina) and his mother Nammu, and was also inhabited by a number of creatures subordinate to him…The underworld was located even further down, beneath the abzu.(p. 27)
Ea or Enki is the god of magicians and the civilized arts – hardly a lord of demons. To further convince you that the equation of Absu with the Underworld is faulty, the following note on the Apsu can be found in Thorkild Jacobsen’s The Harps that Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation:
8. The expanse of fresh water thought to underlie the earth. Because of the cleansing power of water, the rites of the Apsû stood for ritual purity in the highest degree.
Not the sort of place you’d expect to find demons cavorting, is it? This goes to show that looking into these things can often be more important than some people think, however I can tell you as well studied as I am in Sumerian Lore, that even these popular myth interpretations, may be incorrect as we enter into the mix a subject I will talk more about next year,, but we enter into “Who is Enki?”
Don’t you even think I won’t cover that next year!
As I see Lovecraft studied some the Sumerian, and Babylonia Lore but he as many people fail to grasp is Sumeria had many different tribes, or cities states and the God was different in each but of a similar name, the lore of each is also changed as female and males, had different linguistics and dialects which also could skew the picture a bit.
People often will scream, that they are working with magic related, I call bullshit, with a caveat, sometimes your mind can manifest many things provided you have studied other forms and or rituals and types of magic, but to say any Chutulu God or Goddess is beneficial to a Theistic Satanist, is like saying L a Vey is relevant.
But there are many people who fail to understand, chasing various methods of magic, and that is fine but realize this one is not successful doing 14,000 different things, he or she is successful doing 10 things 14,000 times instead.
Practice!
Toss out the Necronomicon it’s a Great Horror Sci-Fi Thriller but that is it ! But don’t take my word for it do the research, but I can tell you end of story this too is UN-debatable.
Got some, bring some!
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Purity and Excellence in Satanism
Grand Magister Blackwood
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