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The Necronomicon (англ)

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     WARNING: The NECRONOMICON'S magick is nothing to fool with and it may 
expose you to psycological forces with which you cannot cope. Remember if you 
fool with the incantations, you were warned!  THIS IS NOT A FARCE!!! As a 
former follower in the ways of the Occult I can guarentee the legitimacy of 
this. 
 
          Book 1: The Introduction 
     "LET THEM CURSE IT THAT CURSE THE DAY, WHO ARE SKILFUL TO ROUSE THE 
LEVIATHAN" 
             JOB 3:8 
 
                           CHART OF COMPARISONS 
        H.P. Lovecraft           Alexander Crowley          Sumer 
 
       Cthulhu               The Great Beast as         Ctha-lu, Kutulu 
                             represented in 
                             "CTH/\H 666" 
       The Ancient Ones      Satan; Teitan              Tiamat 
       Azathoth              Aiwass (?)                 Azag-thoth 
       The Dunwitch          Choronzon                  Pazuzu 
       Horror 
       Shub Niggurath        Pan                        Shub Ishniggarab (?) 
       Out Of Space          The Abyss                  Absu; Nar Mattaru 
       IA!                   IO! IAO!                   IA (JAH; EA; LORD 
                                                        OF WATERS) 
       The Five-pointed      The Pentagram              The AR, or UB 
                                                        (Plough Sign; the 
                                                        original pentagram 
                                                        and sign of the 
                                                        Aryan Race) 
        gray star cavern 
       Vermis Mysteriis       The Serpent               Erim (the enemy; 
                                                        and the sea as 
                                                        Chaos; Gothic: 
                                                        Orim, or Worm 
                                                        great Serpent 
 
          This, of coarse, is not a complete list but rather an inspisational 
sampling. Meditation upon the various things mentioned in the Mythos will 
permit the scholor to draw his own conclusions; research upon the etymology 
of both Lovecraft's and Crowley's respective literature enables the occultist 
to discover the ancient Names and Numbers for much of his own, familiar, 
material. 
          (Note:that Lovecraft may have heard of Crowley is hintedat darkly in 
his short story "The Thing On The Doorstep" in which he refers to a cult 
leader from England who established a covenstead of sorts in New York.  In 
that story, published in Weird Talesin 1936, the cult leader is closely 
identified with chthoinc forces, is described as "notorious", and linked to 
the strange fate that befell the protagonist, Edward Derby) 
 
                        SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL TO 777 
          THE CHART that follows is based on research presently available to 
the Editor with regard to Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian religions.  Entries 
in parenthesis refer to the state of Correspondance before the advent of the 
Elder Gods, the Race of Marduk ; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos 
before the Fall of Marduk from Heaven. (Names of zodiacal constellations are 
after  Budge's renderings) 
 
                   Table VII [A.C.]                  Table XXV [S,] 
             0. ...                            ANU (TIAMAT) 
             1. Sphere of the Primum           ENLIL (ABSU) 
                Mobile 
             2. Sphere of the Zodic or         ENKI; LUMASHI (IGIGI) 
                Fixed Sars 
             3. Sphere of Saturn               ADAR 
             4. Sphere of Jupiter              MARDUK 
             5. Sphere of Mars                 NERGAL 
             6. Sphere of the Sun              UTU 
             7. Sphere of Venus                INANNA 
             8. Sphere of Mercury              NEBO 
             9. Sphere of the Moon             NANNA 
            10. Sphere of the Elements         KIA 
            11. Air                            ANNA 
            12. Mercury                        GUDUD 
            13. Moon                           SIN 
            14. Venus                          DLIBAT 
            15. Aries                          AGRU (XUBUR) 
            16. Taurus                         KAKKAB U ALAP SHAME (KINGU) 
            17. Gemini                         RE'U KINU SHAME U 
                                               TU'AME RABUTI (VIPER) 
            18. Cancer                         SHITTU (SNAKE) 
            19. Leo                            KALBU RABU (LAKHAMU) 
            20. Virgo                          SHIRU (WHIRLWIND) 
            21. Jupiter                        UMUNPADDU 
            22. Libra                          ZIBANITUM (Ravening Dog) 
            23. Water                          BADUR 
            24. Scorpio                        AKRABU (SCORPION-MAN) 
            25. Sagittarius                    PA-BIL-SAG (HURRICANE) 
            26. Capricorn                      SUXUR MASH (FISH-MAN) 
            27. Mars                           MASTABARRU 
            28. Aquarius                       GULA (HORNED BEAST) 
            29. Pisces                         DILGAN U RIKIS NUNI (WEAPON) 
            30. Sun                            SHAMASH 
            31. Fire                           AG 
            32. Saturn                         KAIMANU 
            32. (bis) Earth                    KIA 
            31. (bis) Spirit                   ZI 
 
                         NOTES ON PRONOUNCIATION 
 
             WE CANNOT BE absolutely sure how Sumerian and Akkadian were 
spoken; but many use ful guidelines are available to the student, including 
the translated tablets found all over Mesopotamia. Basically, we can offer 
the following principles which should prove of value in reciting the foreign 
language instructions: 
 
     Vowels 
 
     a as in "father" 
     e as in "whey" 
     i as in "antique" 
     o as in "boat" (but rarely found) 
     u as in "zulu" 
 
     Consonants 
 
     Most are basically the same as in English. The Sumerians did not have an 
alphabet as we know it, but they had developed a syllabry, very much like the 
Japenese "Kana" script of today. In phonetic transliterations, the English 
spelling sought to approximate the Sumerian pronounciation.  However, there 
are a few sounds which English does not possess, and which have been put into 
phonetic variations.  Important examples below: 
 
     x as in the German "ach" 
     ch (same as above) 
     q as in "liKe" 
     k (same as above) 
     sh as in "shall" 
     ss as in, perhaps, "lasso"; a hissing "s" common to Arabic languages 
     z as in "lotS"; a hard "ts" sound, not quite as in "zoo" 
 
          Remember, in the translations which follow, every letter must be 
pronounced.  There are no schwas or silent syllables in Sumerian.  Hence, KIA 
is pronounced "keeya"; "KAIMANU" is pronounced "ka-ee-mah-nu" or, if spoken 
rapidly, the two initial vowell sounds slur onto "kigh" rhyming with "high". 
 
          The incantations should be carefully and slowly at first, to 
familiarize oneself with the tongue-twisting phrases.  A mistake may prove 
fatal to the Work. 
 
                                    SPELLS 
                                 (TRANSLATED) 
 
          WHERE POSSIBLE, the Editor has taken every oppurtunity to find the 
original Summerian or Akkadian translation of a given Greek charm or conjura- 
tion.  These will be given here.  Also, the reader will find English transla- 
tions of the Sumerian charms as they are given in the NECRONOMICON.  Not all 
of the charms are avaliable in this way, and sometimes we have had to make do 
with near misses.  Much of what is found here is from the MAKLU text, of which 
only extant translation is in German or Tallqvist.  The word "maklu" or 
"maqlu" itself is controversial, but Tallqvist seems to think that it does, 
indeed, mean "burning"; especially so as the incantations to be found therin 
invaribly entail burning something, usually a doll made in the likeness of a 
witch or evil sorcerer that the magician wished to dispose of.  Hence, we have 
here probably the archetype of the Great Burning Times of the Inquisition, 
when people were condemmed to firey deaths as Witches and Pagans.  The chant 
"burn!witch!burn!" can be found in the MAKLU text, in all its pristine glory. 
  Indeed, Cthulhu Calls. 
          The Conjuration "The Binding of the Evil Sorcerers" 
 
 
     Alsi ku nushi ilani mushiti 
     Itti kunu alsi mushitum kallatum kattumtum 
     Alsi bararitum qablitum u namaritum 
     Ashshu kashshaptu u kashshipanni 
     Eli nitum ubbiraanni 
     Ili-ia u Ishtari-ia ushis-su-u-eli-ia 
     Eli ameri-ia amru-usanaku 
     Imdikula salalu musha u urra 
     Qu-u imtana-allu-u pi-ia 
     Upu unti pi-ia iprusu 
     Me mashtiti-ia umattu-u 
     Eli li nubu-u xiduti si-ipdi 
Izizanimma ilani rabuti shima-a dababi 
     Dini dina alakti limda 
     Epu-ush salam kashshapi-ia u kashshapi-ia 
     Sha epishia u mushtepishti-ia 
     Is mass-ssarati sha mushi lipshuru ruxisha limnuti 
     Pisha lu-u ZAL.LU Lishanusha Lu-u Tabtu 
     Sha iqbu-u amat limutti-ia kima ZAL.LU litta-tuk 
     qi-ishrusha pu-uttu-ru ipshetusha xulluqu 
     Kal amatusha malla-a sseri 
     Ina qibit iqbu-u ilani mushitum 
 
     NOTE: SINCE THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS INCANTATION I HAVE LEFT OUT 1 VERSE 
SO IF IT IS TRIED IT WILL NOT WORK!!!! 
 
          The Conjuration "XILQA XILQA BESA BESA" or "A Most Exellant Charm 
Aginst the Hordes of Demons" etc. 
 
     Arise! Arise! Go far away! Go far away! 
     Be shamed! Be shamed! Flee! Flee! 
     Turn around, go, arise and go far away! 
     Your wickedness may rise to heaven like unto smoke! 
     Arise and leave my body! 
     From my body, depart in shame! 
     From my body flee! 
     Turn away from my body! 
     Go away from my body! 
     Do not return to my body! 
     Do not come near my body! 
     Do not approach my body! 
     Do not throng around my body! 
     Be commanded by Shammash the Mighty! 
     Be commanded by Enki, Lord of All! 
     Be commanded by Marduk, the Great Magician of the Gods! 
     Be commanded by the God of Fire, your Destroyer! 
     May you be held back from my body! 
 
          NOTE: THIS SPELL IS LISTED COMPLETE 
 
          "Another Binding of the Sorcerers" 
 
     Ssalmani-ia ana pagri tapqida duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia ana pagri taxira duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia iti pagri tushni-illa duppira 
     Ssalmani ini ishdi pagri tushni-illa duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia ana qulqullati tapqida duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia ina igari tapxa-a duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia ina askuppati Tushni-illa duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia ina bi'sha duri tapxa-a duppira 
     Ssalmani-ia ana GISHBAR tapqida duppira 
 
          NOTE: SINCE THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SPELL A VERSE HAS BEEN LEFT OUT 
FOR YOUR SAFETY!  IT WILL NOT WORK IF READ LIKE THIS!!!! 
 
          "The Conjuration of the Mountains of MASHU" 
 
     May the mountain overpower you! 
     May the mountain hold you back! 
     May the mountain conquer you! 
     May the mountain frighten you! 
     May the mountain shake you to the core! 
     May the mountain hold you in check! 
     May the mountain subject you! 
     May the mountain cover you! 
     May the mighty mountain fall on you! 
     May you be held back from my body! 
 
          NOTE: THIS SPELL IS COMPLETE! 
 
     (Note that the original translator had noted the resembelance between the 
Greek word for Lord, KURIOS, and the Sumerian word for mountain, KUR, and for 
a type of underworld, chthonic, monster which is also called KUR and which 
refers to the Leviathan of the Old Testiment. Also in this particular 
conjuration, the word for mountain is SHADU-SHADDAI?  The Old Serpent KUR is, 
of coarse, invoked every day by the Christians: Kyrie Eleison!) 
 
%%% BOOK 1 PART 2 %%% 
 
          WARNING: The NECRONOMICON'S magick is nothing to fool with and it 
may subject you to psycological forces with which you cannot cope.  Remember, 
if you fool with the incantations, you were warned!  As a former follower in 
the ways of the occult I can vouch for the legitimaty of this! 
 
 
                     COMMON SUMERIAN WORDS AND PHRASES 
                               IN ENGLISH 
 
               Akhkharu                             Vampire 
               Alal                                 Destroyer 
               Alla Xul                             Evil God 
               Barra!                               Begone 
               Dingir Xul                           Evil God 
               Edin Na Zu!                          Go To The Desert! 
                                                    (a form of exercism) 
               Gelal                                Incubus 
               Gigim xul                            Evil Spirit 
               Gidim Xul                            Evil Ghost 
               Idimmu                               Demon 
               Idpa                                 Fever 
               Kashshaptu                           Witch 
               Lalartu                              Phantom 
               Lalassu                              Spectre 
               Lilit                                Succubus 
               Maskim Xul                           Evil Fiend (Ambusher, 
                                                    Lier-In-Wait) 
               Mulla Xul                            Evil Devil 
               Rabishu                              (same as Maskim Xul) 
               Telal                                Wicked Demon (Warrior) 
               Uggae                                God Of Death 
               Uruku                                Larvae 
               Utuk Xul                             Evil Spirit 
               Zi Dingir Anna Kanpa!                Spirit, God of the Sky, 
                                                    Remember! 
               Zi Dingir Kia Kanpa!                 Spirit, God of the Earth, 
                                                    Remember! 
 
                                 BANISHINGS 
 
          Read this section carefully. 
 
          In the interim period between the translation and the publication of 
this work, the editor, along with a circle of initiates in another dicipline, 
undertook to experiment with the rituals and forces outlined in the NECRONOMI- 
CON.  In using the material alone, or within a Western ceremonial structure 
(such as the Golden Dawn system) we came upon startling discoveries in both 
cases: THERE ARE NO EFFECTIVE BANISHINGS FOR THE FORCES INVOKED IN THE 
NECRON- 
OMICON ITSELF! {Except, that is, for Christians} The rituals, incantations, 
formulae, of this work are of ancient origin, comprising some of the oldest 
written magickal workings in Western occult history.  The deities and demons 
identified within probably have not been effectivly summoned in nearly six 
thousand years.  Ordinary exercisms and banishings have thus far proved 
extreamly inadequate: this, by experienced magicians.  Hence, the following 
recommendations. 
          The religion of the ancient Sumerian peoples seem to have been 
lunar-oriented, a religion-or religio-magickal structure-of the night, of 
darkness in a sense.  Invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far 
effective in successfully banishing NECRONOMICON demons and intelligence.For 
instance, the KADDISH prayer of the Jewish faith contains some solar elements 
that have proved resilient to inimical genii, and the vibration of the Lord's 
Prayer for Christians is also a workable method. 
 
          We suggest that individual operators utilize an equivelant solar 
(i.e., positive light) invocation from thier own religion or the religion of 
thier ancestors, should they no longer have a religion or should they have 
changed it in thier lifetime. 
          For best practical purposes in the beginning-for those intent on 
actually the rituals contained herein-it is advisable to take espicial care 
in the construction of the magickal defences.  A preliminary period of 
purification is well in order before attempting anything in this grimiore 
Persons of unstable emotional condition should not be allowed, under any 
circumstances, to observe one of these rituals in progress.  That would be 
criminal, and perhaps even suicidal.  One of our colleagues was fearfully 
attacked by his dog directly following a fairly simple and uncomplicated 
formula from this book.  This is definatly not a Gilbert chemestry set. 
          The method of the NECRONOMICON concerns deep, primeval forces that 
seem to pre-exist the normal archetypal images of the Tarot trumps and the 
Golden Dawn telematic figures.  These are forces that developed outside the 
Judeo-Christian mainstream, and were worshipped and summoned long before 
the creation of the Qubala as we know it today.  Hence, the ineffectiveness 
of the Golden Dawn banishing procedures aginst them.  They are not necessarily 
demonic or qliphotic in the sense that these terms are commonly understood 
in the West, they just simply represent power scources largely untapped and 
thus far ignored by twentieth-century, mainstream consciouness. 
          The results of any experimentation with this work, as well as prac- 
tical suggestions concerning its rituals, are welcomed by the publishers. 
 
%%% BOOK 2 PART 1 %%% 
 
               WARNING: The NECRONOMICON'S magick is nothing to fool with and 
may expose you to pscycological forces with which you cannot cope.  Remember 
if you fool with the incantations, you were warned! 
 
                             THE TESTIMONY OF THE 
                                   MAD ARAB 
 
       TTTTTHIS is the testimony of all that I have seen, and all that I have 
         T   learned, in those years that I have possesed the Three Seals of 
         T   MASSHU.  I have seen One Thousand and-One moons, and surely this 
             is enough for the span of a mans life, though it is said the 
       Prophets lived much longer.  I am weak, and ill, and bear great tired- 
ness and exaustion, and a sigh hangs in my breast like a dark lantern, I am 
old. 
          The wolves carry thier name in thier midnight speeches, and that 
quiet, subtle Voice is summoning me from afar.  And a voice much closer will 
shout into my ear with unholy impatience.  The weight of my soul will decide 
its final resting place.  Before the time, I must put down here all that I can 
concerning the horrors that stalk Without, and which lie in wait at the door 
of every man, for this is the ancient arcana that has been handed down of old, 
but which has been forgotten by all but a few men, the worshippers of the 
Ancient Ones (may thier names be blotted out!) 
          And if I do not finish this task, take what is here and discover the 
rest, for time is short and mankind does not know or understand the evil that 
awaits it, from every side, from every open Gate, from every broken barrier, 
from every mindless acolyte at the alters of madness. 
          For this is the Book of the Dead, the Book of the Black Earth, that 
I have writ down at the peril of my life, exactly as I recieved it, on the 
planes of IGIGI, the cruel celestial spirits from beyond the Wanderers of the 
Wastes. 
          Let all who read this book be warned thereby that the habitation of 
men are seen and surveyed by that Ancient Race of gods and demons from a time 
before time, and that they seek revenge for that forgotten battle that took 
place somewhere in the Cosmos and rent the Worlds in the days before the crea- 
tion of Man, when the Elder Gods walked the Spaces, the race of MARDUK, as he 
is known to the Chaldeans, and of ENKI our master, the Lord of Magicians. 
          Know, then, that I have trod all the Zones of the Gods, and also the 
places of Azonei, and have descended into the foul places of Death and Eternal 
Thirst, which may be reached through the Gate of GANZIR, which was built in UR 
in the days before Babylonian was. 
          Know, too, that I have spoken with all manner of spirit and daemon, 
whose names are no longer known in the societies of Man, or were never known. 
And the seals of these are writ herein ; yet others I must take with me when I 
leave you.  ANU have mercy on my soul!  {Actually Jesus Christ is the one he 
should ask for forgiveness from, for Christ is the all powerful God and the 
only god full of love} 
          I have seen the Unknown Lands, that no map has ever charted.  I have 
lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spoken with demons and the souls 
of slaughtered men, and of women who have died in childbirth, victims of the 
she-fiend LAMMASHTA. 
          I have traveled beneath the Seas, in search of the Palace of Our 
Master, and found the stone monuments of vanquished civilizations, and de- 
ciphered the writings of some of these; while still others remain mysteries 
to any man who lives.  And these civilizations were destroyed because of the 
knoeledge contained in this book. 
          I have traveled among the stars, and trembled before the gods.  I 
have at last found the formula by which I passed the gate of ARZIR, and passed 
into the forbidden realms ofthe foul IGIGI. 
          I have raised demons, and the dead. 
          I have summoned the ghosts of my ancestors to real and visible ap- 
pearence on the tops of temples built to reach the stars, and built to touch 
the nethermost cavities of HADES.  I have wrestled with the Black Magician, 
AZAG-THOTH, in vain, and fled to the Earth by calling upon INANNA and her 
brother MARDUK, Lord of the double-headed AXE. 
          I have raised armiesagainst the Lands of the East, by summoning the 
hordes of fiends I have made subject unto me, and so doing found NGAA, the god 
of the heathens, who breathes flame and roares like a thousand thunders. 
          I have found fear. 
          I have found the Gate that leads to the Outside, by which the 
Ancient Ones, who ever seek the entrance to our world, keep eternal watch.  I 
have smelled the vapors of that Ancient One, Queen of the Outside, whose name 
is writ in the MAGAN text, the testiment of some dead civilization whose 
priests, seeking power, swing open the dread, evil Gate for an hour past the 
time and were consumed. 
          I came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite pecul- 
iar, while still the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called Mesopot- 
amia by the Greeks. 
          When I was only a youth, traveling alone in the mountains to the 
East, called MASSHU by the people who live there, I came upon a grey rock 
carved with three strange symbols.  It stood as high as a man, and as wide 
around as a bull.  It was firmly in the ground, and I could not move it. 
Thinking no more of the carvings, save that they might be the work of a king 
to mark some Ancient victory over an enemy, I built a fire at its foot to 
protect me from the from the wolves that wander in that reigons and went to 
sleep, for it was night and I was far from my village, being Bet Durrabia. 
Bieng about three hours from dawn, in the nineteenth of Shabatu, I was 
awakened by the howl of a dog, or perhaps a wolf, uncommonly loud and close 
at hand.  The fire had died to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a 
faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings.  I 
began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the grey rock began 
to rise slowly into the air, as if it were a dove.  I could not move or speak 
for the fear that siezed upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my 
skull.  The Dik of Azug-bel-ya was no stranger seemed to melt into my hands! 
          Presently, I heard a voice, softly, some distance away and a more 
practical fear, that the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and I rolled 
behind weeds, trembling.  Another voice joined the first, and soon several men 
in black robes of thieves came together over the place where I was, surroundin 
the floating rock, of which they did not exhibit in the least fright. 
          I could see clearly now that the three carvings on the stone monu- 
ment were glowing, a flame red color, as through the rock were on fire.  The 
figures were murmuring together in prayer or invocation, of which only a few 
words could be heard, and these in some unknown tongue; though, ANU have mercy 
on my soul!, these rituals are not unknown to me any longer. 
          The figures, whose faces I could not see or recognize, began to make 
wild passes in the air with knives that glinted cold and sharp in the mountain 
night. 
          From beneath the floating rock, out of the very ground where it had 
sat, came rising the tail of a serpent.  This serpent was surely larger than 
any I had ever seen.  The thinnest section thereof was fully that of the arms 
of two men, and as it rose from the earth it was followed by another, although 
the end of the first was not seen as it seemed to reach down into the very Pit 
itself.  These were followed by still more, and the ground began to tremble 
under the pressure of so many of these enormous arms.  The chanting of the 
priests, for I knew them now to be some the servents ofsome hidden Power, 
became much louder and nearly hysterical. 
          IA! IA! ZI AZAG! 
          IA!IA! ZI AZKAK! 
          IA! IA! KUTULU ZI KUR! 
          IA! 
 
          The ground where I was hiding became wet with some substance, being 
slightly downhill from the scene I was witnessing.  I touched the wetness and 
found it to be blood.  In horror I screamed and gave my presence away to the 
priests.  They turned toward me, and I saw with loathing that they had cut 
their chests with the daggers they had used to raise the stone, for some mys- 
tical purpose I could not then divine; although I now know that blood is the 
very food of these spirits, which is why tha field after the battles of war 
glows with an unnatural light, the manifestation of the spirits feeding there- 
on. 
 
          May ANU protect us all! 
          My scream had the effect of casting thier ritual into chaos and dis- 
order.  I raced through the mountain path by which I had come, and the priests 
came running after me, although some seemed to stay behind, perhaps to finish 
the Rites.  However, as I ran wildly down the slopes in the cold night, my 
heart gave rise in my chest and my head growing hot, the sound of splitting 
rocks and thunder came from behind me and shook the very ground I ran on.  In 
fright and haste I fell to the earth. 
          Rising, I turned to face whatever attackerhad come nearest me, 
though I was unarmed.  To my surprise, what I saw was no priest of ancient 
horror, no necromancer of that forbidden Art, but black robes fallen upon the 
grass and weeds, with no seeming presance of life or bodies beneath them. 
          I walked cautiously to the first and, picking up a long twig, lifted 
the robe from the tangle of weeds and thorns.  All that remained of the priest 
was a pool of slime, like green oil, and the smell of a body lain long in the 
sun to rot.  Such a stench nearly overpowered me, but I was resolute to find 
the others, to see if the same fortune had also befallen them. 
          Walking back up the slope that I had so fearfully run down only 
moments ago, I came across yet another of the black priests, in identical 
condition to the first.  I kept walking, passing more of the robes as I went, 
not venturing to overturn them any longer.  Then, I finally came upon the grey 
stone monument that had risen unnaturally into the air at the command of the 
priests.  It was now upon the ground once more, but the carvings still glowed 
with supernatural light.  The serpents, or what I had then thought of as ser- 
pents, had disappeared.  But in the dead embers of the fire, now cold and 
black, was a shining metal plate.  I picked it up and saw that it was also 
carved, as the stone, but very intricatly, after a fasion I could not under- 
stand.  It did not bear the same markings as the stone, but I had the feeling 
I coukd almost read the characters, but could not, as though I once knew the 
tongue but had since long forgotten.  Mt head began to ache as though a devil 
was pounding my skull, when a shaft of moonlight hit the metal amulet, for I 
know now what it was, and a voice entered my head and told me the secrets of 
the scene I had witnessed in one word: 
          KUTULU. 
          In that moment, as though whispered fiercly into my ear, I under- 
stood. 
          These were the signs carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate 
to the Outside: 
                /\                         /-\                    /\ 
             __/  \__                      | o                   /  \ 
             \      /                      |                    /    \ 
              \    /               o------------               /      \ 
              /    \                       |    /              \     ---- 
             /      \                      |   /                \ 
                                           | /                   o 
 
             (I wish to apologize for the primitive descriptions of the sym- 
bols but its about the best that can be done with this file writer) 
 
          The amulet that I held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around 
my neck as I write these words, is this:   (after seeing the so-called picture 
of the symbols you can probably understand why I did not attempt to show you 
the amulet) 
          Of the three symbols carved, the first is the Sign of our Race from 
beyond the Stars, and is called ARRA in the tongue of the Scribe who taught it 
to me, an emissary of the Elder Ones.  In the tongue of the eldest city of 
Babylon, it was UR.  It is the Sigil of the Covenant of the Elder Gods, and 
when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us.  They have 
sworn! 
          Spirit of the Skies, Remember! 
          The second sign is the Elder Sign, and is the Key whereby the Powers 
of the Elder Gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. 
It has a Name, and is called AGGA. 
          The third sign is the Sigil of the Watcher.  It is called BANDAR. 
The Watcher is a Race sent by the Elder Ones.  It keeps vigil while one sleeps 
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