ambient fictional energy
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(via 80shorroraddiction)
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(via call-of-cthulhu)
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(via satanic-sanctum)
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PAN
“From the brook a shape arose
Half a man and half a goat.
Hoofs it had instead of toes
And a beard adorn’d its throatOn a seat of rustic reeds
Sweetly play’d this hybrid man
Naught car’d I for earthly needs,
For I knew that this was Pan”
H.P. Lovecraft, To Pan“Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods by night, for the gloom and loneliness of such scenes dispose the mind to superstitious fears. Hence sudden fright without an visible cause was ascribed to Pan, and called a Panic terror.”
“As the name of the god signifies all, Pan came to be considered a symbol of the universe and personification of Nature; and later still to be regarded as a representative of all the gods and of heathenism itself.”
Thomas Bullfinch,Bullfinch’s Mythology“because she had seen Pan the dangerous lover with a face like some shaggy goat”
Nonnus, The Dionysiaca“Pan, the great god of nature, was not a handsome god. He had goat’s legs, pointed ears, a pair of small horns, and he was covered all over with dark, shaggy hair. He was so ugly that his mother, a nymph, ran away screaming when she first saw him.”
Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire’s, Book Of Greek Myths“In works of art Pan is represented as a voluptuous and sensual being, with horns, puck-nose, and goat’s feet, sometimes in the act of dancing, and sometimes playing on the syrinx.”
Sir William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology -
KHEM/MIN
Then we knew that we were done with Saracen Cairo, and that we must taste the deeper mysteries of primal Egypt—the black Khem of Re and Amen, Isis and Osiris.”H.P. Lovecraft & Harry Houdini, Under the Pyramids“Min was represented as an ithyphallic bearded man. He wore the same headdress as Amon, two tall feathers, and held one arm raised to brandish a scourge or a thunderbolt. In the New Kingdom he was shown presiding over the harvest festival in the form of his sacred animal a white bull.”Veronica Ions, Egyptian Mythology“An important male fertility god was Min, the local god of the ancient trading center of Gebtu, north of Thebes, where trails across the desert from the Red Sea met the Nile. Min is instantly recognizable on artifacts by his flail and his erect penis.”Charles Freeman, The Legacy Of Ancient Egypt“As Khem or Min, he was the god of reproduction; as Khnum, he was the creator of all things, the maker of gods and men”.Bechtel, The Catholic Encyclopedia -
SAMAËL
“He had been growing shabbier and shabbier with the years, and now prowled about like a veritable mendicant; seen occasionally by humiliated friends in subway stations, or loitering on the benches around Borough Hall in conversation with groups of swarthy, evil-looking strangers. When he spoke it was to babble of unlimited powers almost within his grasp, and to repeat with knowing leers such mystical words or names as “Sephiroth”, “Ashmodai”, and “Samaël”.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror At Red Hook
“And when she saw (the consequences of) her desire, it changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. And its eyes were like lightning fires which flash. She cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. And she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy Spirit who is called the mother of the living. And she called his name Yaltabaoth.”
“Now the archon who is weak has three names. The first name is Yaltabaoth, the second is Saklas, and the third is Samael. And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. For he said, ‘I am God and there is no other God beside me,’ for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come. “
The Apocryphon Of John, The Secret Book Of John
“There was another angel in the seventh heaven, different in appearance from all the others, and of frightful mien. His height was so great, it would have taken five hundred years to cover a distance equal to it, and from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet he was studded with glaring eyes, at the sight of which the beholder fell prostrate in awe. “This one,” said Metatron, addressing Moses, “is Samael, who takes the soul away from man.”
Louis Ginzberg, The Ascension Of Moses
“Red Samael, who was then a seraph, led Lilith away from the warm sunlit paths of Eden, into the refreshing shade of a huge tree which thrived in the midst of this garden, and away from the paths of virtue also.”
James Branch Cabell, The Devil’s Own Dear Son -
THING WITH THE FEELERS“What seemed to be sheer fantasy was the superstitious lore—that Wizard Potter had ‘called something down from the sky, and it lived with him or in him until he died’;—that a late traveler, found in a dying state along the main road, had gasped out something about ‘that thing with the feelers-slimy, rubbery thing with the suckers on its feelers’ that came out of the wood and attacked him-and a good deal more of the same kind of lore.”
H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, Witches’ Hollow -
UNKNOWN LURKER“And the conches of the tritons gave weird blasts, and the nereids made strange sounds by striking on the grotesque resonant shells of unknown lurkers in black sea-caves.”H.P. Lovecraft, The Strange High House In the Mist -
VAPOROUS BRAIN
“It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign—yet in a flash the Carter-facet realised how slight and fractional all these conceptions are.”
H.P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price, Through the Gates Of the Silver Key -
HUMANOID CROCODILE
“I would not look at the marching things. That I desperately resolved as I heard their creaking joints and nitrous wheezing above the dead music and the dead tramping. It was merciful that they did not speak … but God! their crazy torches began to cast shadows on the surface of those stupendous columns. Heaven take it away! Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches … men should not have the heads of crocodiles… .”
H.P. Lovecraft & Harry Houdini, Under the Pyramids -
VAMPIRE
“105-Vampire visits man in ancestral abode-is his own father.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book -
