%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% %%%% %%%% THE CORONER %%%% %%%% Presents %%%% %%%% %%%% %%%% THE NECRONOMICAN %%%% %%%% %%%% %%%% DEC. 1985 %%%% %%%% %%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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-ishru...
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