ROf Dunwich. Synonym for Whateley, Ralsa. AWD Shuttered 278-279, 288. Alternate spelling for: Re. Miskatonic University. AWD Beyond2 176. Painter. HPL Case (online text) 163. HK Hunt (online text) the cradle of Buddhism 169. Town in Transylvania. HPL Case (online text) 164, 196, 203, 223. Of Spokane? DWR Music (online text) 293 (narrator), 297, 299. H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 104-105, 107. Boston. AWD Lurker 143. "Michael Ranft (or Ranfft; also Rauff), in Latin Michael Ranfftius (born in Güldengossa December 9, 1700, died in Löbichau April 18 1774) was a Lutheran pastor, writer and historian who is known for his writings on vampires in Germany." [Michael Ranft, Wikipedia, 12/30/2020] Author, De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulus. [RB Mannikin 75] A boat. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 329. AWD Gorge 112. After escaping R'lyeh, Cthulhu lurked in the crater of Rano-Roraku. [RB Strange] Possibly a reference to Rapa Iti and the Bass Islands in French Polynesia, about 1200 miles SSE of Tahiti. Takita's family lived in the Rapa Islands, where her grandfather knew old lore. [RB Strange] FL Terror2 286. Synonym for: Easter Island. HPL Man (online text) 211. Night-flying archaeopteryx, familiar of Ezdagor, on Mt. Voormithadreth in Hyperborea. CAS Seven (online text) (48-49), 50-59, 61-63, 65-66. HC Isle (online text) 147, 161-162. RB Sorcerer (online text) 155, 161. FBL Awakening 101-114. FBL Awakening 101-114. FBL Awakening 101-114. HPL Rats (online text) 31, 33-38, 40, 42-45. RB Grinning 57. HK Salem (online text) 250-252, 255, 258. HPL Pyramids (online text) 220, 221, 223: Harry Houdini wanted we to taste the deeper mysteries of primal Egypt—the black Khem of Re and Amen, Isis and Osiris. When Houdini saw the sun set over the great pyramids, it reminded him of the ancient god of Heliopolis—Re-Harakhte, the Horizon-Sun. On the vast stone breast of the Sphinx he faintly discerned the emblem of Re-Harakhte, for whose image the Sphinx was mistaken in a late dynasty. RB Fane 133: Captain Cartaret found that, beneath the inscrutable shadows of the pyramids, the old gods like Ra still stalked in the old ways. Opener 163: It is not good to look upon the old gods in the places where they still rule; for deities such as the evil Amon-Ra frown down as sullen guardians in the purple pylons before the pyramids. Above the opening to the outer passageway of an Egyptian tomb, Peter Barton saw an abhorrent silver figure with the heads of seven principal Egyptian gods, including Ra. Also spelled as: Ra. A maid of Avis Long. RB Unspeakable 169, 171. Providence. AWD Brotherhood 328. The highest esoteric art that was never written or told [RB Hell (online text) 60]. REH Gods (online text) 216-217, 228-230, 232. RB Faceless 36. Of Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 103. London. HPL Museum (online text) 237. London. HPL Museum (online text) 237. Gangster, visitor to Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 103-110, 112. Salem. HPL Case (online text) 151. Relatione del reame del Congo (1591) by Filippo Pigafetta, translated into Latin as Regnum Congo. [Filippo Pigafetta, Wikipedia, 11/18/2020] A very interesting article on this book by ahtzib can be found at Regnum Congo and the Horror of Theodor de Bry's Engravings [miskatonicmuseum.blogspot.com, dated September 6, 2010, retrieved 11/18/2020]. Google Books hosts the online text of an English translation titled A Report of the Kingdom of Congo. A suggestive passage follows: "They have fhambles for human flefh, as we have of animals, even eating the enemies they have killed in battle, and felling their flaves if they can get a good price for them; if not, they give them to the butcher, who cuts them in pieces and then fells them to be roafted or boiled. It is a remarkable fact in the hiftory of this people, that any who are tired of life, or wifh to prove themselves brave and courageous, efteem it great honour to expofe themselves to death by an act which fhall fhow their contempt for life. Thus they offer themselves for flaughter, and as the faithful vaffals of princes, wifhing to do them fervice, not only give themfelves to be eaten, but their flaves also, when fattened, are killed and eaten. It is true many nations eat human flefh, as in the East Indies, Brazil, and elfewhere, but to devour the flesh of their own enemies, friends, fubjects, and even relations is a thing without example except amongft the Anzichi tribes." In this passage, shambles is apparently a reference to "a place where animals are brought to be slaughtered" ["shambles" meaning 2, Dictionary.com]. HPL Picture (online text) 121: The narrator found a copy of Regnum Congo, in the Latin edition printed at Frankfort in 1598, in an old house in the Miskatonic Valley. The owner showed an unhealthy relish for Plate XII, which represented, in gruesome detail, a butcher’s shop of the cannibal Anziques. (See here for a detail of this plate as redrawn in Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature by Thomas Huxley.) A place in New England? HPL Case (online text) 118. HPL Pickman (online text) 13-14, 17, 24. HPL Kadath (online text) (306). REH Ring (online text) 50 (later shown to be a mistaken example). FBL Gateway "Uncle" and Thomas Granville reincarnations of Halpin Chalmers and Frank? 8-9. HK Hunt (online text) 169. CAS Ubbo (online text) regressing through memories of past incarnations? 53-54. See also: astral body; souls. HPL Pyramids (online text) 219, 221, 223-228, features resemble those of Khephren the Great 231 & 238, 241. Synonym for R'lyeh. HPL Mound (online text) 131. HPL Medusa (online text) 187, 192. Author, Daemonolatreia. "Nicholas Rémy, Latin Remigius (1530–1616) was a witch-phobic French magistrate who claimed in his book to have overseen the execution of more than 800 and the torture or persecution of a similar number." [Nicholas Rémy, Wikipedia] HPL Dunwich (online text) 185; Festival (online text) 211. AWD Survivor (online text) 160. By Otto Dostmann. Published Berlin, 1809, “Der Drachenhaus” Press. The Greco-Roman ruins of Asia Minor were the author's pet theme. He dismissed the Black Stone with a few lines as a comparatively modern artifact. He could not make out the defaced characters on the monolith but pronounced them unmistakably Mongoloid. He also mentioned the name of the nearby village: Stregoicavar. [REH Black (online text) 57] HPL Man (online text) 207. Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165. Wife of Anton Fischer, mother of Georg Reuter Fischer. FL Terror2 270-271, (272-274, 280-282, 285-287). Rose Morris's dog. HPL Man (online text) 210-211, 214. Of Texas. REH Lost 66, 68. Of Texas. REH Lost 64-65, 71. Of Texas. REH Lost 64-67, 69-91. Sunday feature writer for the sensationlistic Boston Pillar; sent to Cabot Museum to report on bodies from Chateau Faussesflammes, wrote about T'yog mummy instead. Rushed to Widener Library for a sight of the Necronomicon. HPL Aeons (online text) 269, (270). An alien being that came from Yuggoth, where the cities are under the warm deep sea [HPL Museum (online text)]. It came to Earth and lived in an Arctic city three million years ago, before Lomar and before humanity, when the climate was warm. The ruins are in Alaska, up the Noatak river from Fort Morton. Rhan-Tegoth was resting dormant there on a carved ivory throne until George Rogers and Orabona brought it to London. Rhan-Tegoth is of great size, fully ten feet high even when crouching. It has six sinuous limbs ending in black paws with crab-like claws, and a round head with three eyes, and foot-long proboscis. Its body is almost entirely covered with a dense growth of slender tentacles, each ending in an asp-like mouth. The longest tentacles are on the head and below the proboscis, where they are marked with spiral stripes. It is amphibious, with a system of gills on its head. Rogers kept it in a tank of liquid. It made a baying or trumpeting noise, and had a horrible smell. Rhan-Tegoth featured in certain obscure legends that Rogers had studied. Rogers awakened it with rites and blood sacrifices, including a dog. Rhan-Tegoth's victims are crushed and flattened, seared as if with acid, and covered with innumerable circular wounds. Rogers regarded it a god, with himself to be the first priest of its latter-day hierarchy. Rogers expected that it would grant him power in exchange for his sacrifices. Rogers was also afraid that Rhan-Tegoth would die if he did not continue to feed it, and believed that if it dies, the Old Ones can never come back. It is not clear which "Old Ones" are referred to here. However, the grouping may include Cthulhu and Shub-Niggurath, who were mentioned in Roger's rantings. Rogers believed that Rhan-Tegoth could not be affected by human protections such as pistols. However, after Rogers' death, Orabona somehow killed or otherwise neutralized Rhan-Tegoth. Orabona put the creature on display as a supposed waxwork. However, the authorities considered it too shocking and forced Orabona to stop displaying it. AWD Lurker 135. Aka: Gnoph-Hek. A freighter. AWD Island 204. HPL Case (online text) 107, 117, 133, 165, R.I. 229; Gates (online text) 424. AWD Survivor (online text) 149, 160. Incl: Lovecraft, H. P.; Nentaconhaunt; Pawtuxet; Plainfield Pike; Providence; Providence River; Seekonk river. Rhode Island Historical Society HPL Case (online text) 126. HPL Call (online text) 128. Of London. A painter. CJ Acquarium 300-310. Village, resort? HPL Case (online text) 175, 177, 179. HPL Terrible (online text) 272-274. HPL Colour (online text) 62. HPL Dunwich (online text) 173-174, 184-187, description 193. FL Terror2 309. Kansas. HPL Mound (online text) 116. "Richalmus (Richalm von Schöntal or Schönthal) (died 1219) was a German Cistercian abbot, known for his work of monastic life, notorious for its demonology, the Liber Revelationum. . ." [Richalmus, Wikipedia] Mentioned as the author of Liber Revelationum. [RB Hell (online text) 26, 29-30]. Of Wallington. AWD Those 114, 117. Of Stamford-Norwalk area, Connecticut. RAL Settlers (online text) High-school acquaintance of Clyde Cantrell, with whom he owned the Advertiser 17, fraternity brother of Dave Fenner at Columbia University in 1930-1931, graduated summa cum laude B.A. in Latin in same year 24, investigates Settler's Wall 17-36. Who failed to get Chaugnar Faugn's statue. FBl Hills (online text) 243, his book 246, brewery 253. Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 106. HPL Diary (online text) 303. Virginia. REH Roof (online text) 5. Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 117-120, 122-123, 126-127, 132-135, 140, 146, 150-151; Valley (online text) supposed to be sea-serpent in 135. Santa Rita. RB Terror 219. HPL Yig (online text) 90. A star. AWD Lair 124-125. Second Station, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 169, 177, 229. Statue by Jeffrey Corey. [AWD Clay 371, 374]. The statue was evidently inspired by the character of Rima in W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest. [Green Mansions, Wikipedia] HPL Medusa (online text) 175. A city. HPL Kadath (online text) 358, 360. HPL Electric (online text) 78. HK Hunt (online text) 168. REH Children (online text) 156, 162: In ancient Britain, a tribe that fought against the Sword People. AWD Lurker 3, 23. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 357. Pawtuxet Valley. HPL Case (online text) 155. An estate in Missouri. HPL Medusa (online text) (164-168), 169, 172, 199-200. HPL Museum (online text) 215. Equestrian director at the Stellar Brothers Circus. RB Elephant (online text) 47, 51. An (the?) Outer One. CAS Coming (online text) 71-72, (73), 74-81. Submerged continent beneath the Pacific. HPL Call (online text) 130, 136, 139-141, strange geometry 143, 150-151; Electric (online text) 74; Man (online text) 211; Medusa (online text) 181, 189, 193-194; Mountains (online text) 47, 66; Whisperer (online text) 223, 254. Simon Waverly and Albert Keith found a map where H. P. Lovecraft had sketched the location of R'lyeh. Keith chartered the ship Okishuri Maru to R'lyeh, where the crew fed him to Cthulhu. In the near future, R'lyeh will rise again, among earthquakes and tsunamis that will damage many South Pacific islands. A nuclear submarine will be sent to destroy R'lyeh and Cthulhu, but will fail. Cthulhu will travel from there to Easter Island. [RB Strange] AWD Island (183-184), 188, (198-199), 208, 211-212; Curwen 18, 21-22, 31, location 35, (37-39), 42; Dweller 133; Gable (online text) 207, 209; Gorge located between New Guinea and the Carolines, possibly west of the Admiralties, location 104, descr. 106, 126, 131; Depths (online text) 235; Keeper 141, 150, 163-164; Lair 126; Lamp (online text) 254; Lurker 61, 83-84, 124, 133-134; OutThere Lost undersea kingdom where one of the Ancient Ones was banished by the Elder Gods. Described as "ever damned" by Saint Augustine; Passing mentioned in Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus; Seal (online text) (158), 159, 161, 164-166, (177), location (179); Sky 59. 68, 81; Space 234; Valley (online text) 126-127, 134, 137, 147; Whippoorwills 43, 46-47; Wind (online text) Allison Wentworth spoke of it while raving of his year spent as a captive of Ithaqua; Wood under the Atlantic 77. FL Terror2 288, 291, 311. FBL Awakening 112. DW Lady (online text) 105. RFS Warder 164. RAL Nyaghoggua (online text) seekers of the deep, horrific realms of R'lyeh are sometimes waylaid and subjected to weird rites by servants of Nyaghoggua. Aka: Relex; Rulay; Ryah; Ryche; Ryeh; Ya-R'lyeh. Incl: Black Island. See also: Seal of R'lyeh. Language of the spawn of Cthulhu. HPL Call (online text) 136-137, none can read now 139; Dunwich (online text) sample 175, 196; Gates (online text) 452. AWD Curwen 20; Gorge letters carved in statue (102). An esoteric text touching on the cult of Cthulhu. Contents The R'lyeh Text includes hints that seem to indicate that the time for the resurgence of Cthulhu is drawing near [AWD Curwen 20]. Prof. Laban Shrewsbury's Cthulhu in the Necronomicon includes this quote from the R'lyeh Text: "Great Cthulhu shall rise from R'lyeh, Hastur the Unspeakable shall return from the dark star which is in the Hyades near Aldebaran . . . Nyarlathotep shall howl forever in the darkness where he abideth, Shub Niggurath shall spawn his thousand young . . ." [AWD Sky 59] The R'lyeh Text includes the phrase Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah' nagl fhtagn, which was translated by H. P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu as "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" [AWD Hastur 13-14]. The Cthulhu Mythos sprang from old books including the R'lyeh Text [AWD Island 180]. Appearance Amos Tuttle's copy was bound in human skin [AWD Hastur 10]. Copies and Modern Readers Haddon found a copy among the books of Amos Tuttle, which was later consulted by Paul Tuttle [AWD Hastur 2]. Paul Tuttle donated the copy to Miskatonic University [25, 29]. David, a librarian at Miskatonic University, delved into the R'lyeh Text [AWD Sandwin 101, 105]. Tony Alwyn, a librarian at Miskatonic University, knew something of the weird knowledge hidden in the R'lyeh Text [AWD Beyond2 164, 172]. Laban Shrewsbury spoke to Andrew Phelan and Nayland Column of various esoteric texts, including the R'lyeh Text [AWD Curwen 20; Keeper 141]. Claiborne Boyd found passages from the R'lyeh Text among the papers of Asaph Gilman [AWD Gorge 109]. Abel Keane read of the R'lyeh Text in Shrewsbury's Cthulhu in the Necronomicon [AWD Sky 59]. Upton Gardner had photostatic copies of pages from the R'lyeh Text [AWD Dweller 126]. The Gable Window narrator found a copy in the house of his late cousin, Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206]. Winfield Phillips borrowed either an original copy or a photostat of R'lyeh Text from Seneca Lapham. It probably was borrowed or copied from the Miskatonic University Library. [AWD Lurker 134] Roads of Justin Geoffrey, The A book by the poet Justin Geoffrey. [REH Door] Roba el Ehaliyeh, Roba el Khaliyeh, Roba El Khaliyey, Roba El Khaliye South Arabian desert, known by the Ancients as the "Empty Space," where Alhazred spent ten years alone, and of which many strange and unbelievable marvels are told. Held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death (HPL History (online text) 52). AWD Keeper 148, 153, 156. Aka: Crimson Desert; Dahna; Empty Space; Roba el Ehaliyeh; Rub al 'Khali. Mayor of Santa Rita. RB Terror 229, (248), 249-251. A spirit of old Carcosa, and narrator of the story. AB Inhabitant (online text) 535. He revered a writer named Hali. In life, he had multiple wives and sons. Of the Sana. AWD Keeper 137. The Harlem Snake--a boxer. HPL Herbert (online text) 146. Newport, R.I. HPL Case (online text) 133. Providence. HPL Case (online text) 169. A writer. While well enough of his editors to take it easy for a while, visited Graag's lodge in Maine and unburied the remains of the Other with Paulsen, Frank Hartley, and Hank Klarney. On realizing he was cursed by the mantle of the sorcerer, killed himself with poison. RAL Graag (online text) 12-15. New York. HPL Electric (online text) 68. 25, 27, county 28. New York. RB Hell (online text) 21-23, 25, 38-40, 43. FL Terror2 268, 273, 279-280, 285, 298, 304, 306. HPL Call (online text) 151. Born Yosef Vrolok. REH Ring (online text) 55-56, 60-62. HPL Mountains (online text) 7, 14, 29, 40-41, 104. A ship. AWD Seal (online text) 179. HPL Museum (online text) 215-229, 231-240, (241). London. HPL Museum (online text) 215 & (throughout). A city or realm? HPL Doom (online text) 48. "An Indo-Aryan ethnic group and traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live predominantly in Europe and Anatolia, but have diaspora populations located worldwide." [Romani people, Wikipedia] The Romani people were widely known as gypsies, though that term is now considered offensive by many. In the dreamlands, the wanderers appear to be analogous to the Romani people. HPL Case (online text) 195, 197. HPL Case (online text) 164; Descendant (online text) 359, 361; Rats (online text) 27, 29, 36-38, 40, 42-44. RB Brood 90, 92, 95; DarkIsle 94-114; Sorcerer (online text) 155, 161. AWD Lurker 125; Six 125; Space 238. HK Bells (online text) 84; Hydra (online text) 135. RFS Warder 164. Incl: Lupus; Paulinus; Viburnia gens; Vincius the Reaper A boy of Teloth. HPL Iranon (online text) 113-116. Synonym for Roodmas. AWD Lurker 60. See also: ceremonial days. Synonym for Roodmas. HPL Case (online text) 151-152. AWD Whippoorwills 46. HPL Man (online text) 208; Medusa (online text) 181. Maine. RB Satan 5-6, 9-12, 15-19. Incl: Frye, Dorcas RB Notebook (online text) 231. Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition student. HPL Mountains (online text) 31-34. Painter. HPL Colour (online text) 54. Uncle of Avis Long. RB Unspeakable 168-170. HK Bells (online text) 80. HPL Mountains (online text) 7. Of Los Angeles. HK Bells (online text) (narrator) 80, 83, 89, 92-93. Of the Rocklynn Institute, New York. RB Hell (online text) 24-25, 27-59, 64, 66-71. HPL Mountains (online text) 7-9. Antarctica. HPL Mountains (online text) 4, 10, 35. HPL Hound (online text) 177. See Romania. HPL Whisperer (online text) 218, 221, 258*, 260, 264, 267. Overlooking Dunwich. HPL Dunwich (online text) 155. AWD Middle 353; Shuttered 258, 261, 264; Watchers 387, 399. RB Terror 224, 251. Incl: Drake, Dena; Hanson, Don; Ingali, Roberto; Perez, Juan. A town in Essex County, Massachusetts, inland from Plum Island Sound. [Rowley, Massachusetts, Wikipedia; see map on Google Maps] The branch railroad line from Rowley to Innsmouth was given up years ago. An old bus run by Joe Sargent ran through Newburyport to Innsmouth and then on to Arkham. After the train line stopped running, and before the bus route started, Innsmouth people used to walk to Rowley and take the train from there to get to Newburyport. Sargent's bus route ran south out of Newburyport along High Street, which changes name to High Road. Sometime before reaching Rowley, the bus turned on another road that runs closer to the beach and eventually becomes Federal Street in Innsmouth. From the Old Square in Innsmouth, the Rowley road runs northwest. When escaping Innsmouth on foot, the narrator followed the abandoned railway line to Rowley. Most of its earlier length was uncomfortably visible from the Rowley road, and from high places in the town itself. The Rowley road drew close to the old railway line before crossing it and diverging to the west. [HPL Innsmouth (online text)] Daniel Upton and the possessed Edward Pickman Derby drove past Rowley on the way south from Maine to Arkham. [HPL Doorstep (online text) 291] Rowley, Dr. The doctor usually used by the Marsh family of Innsmouth. [AWD Shuttered] Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England. AWD Lurker 136. Massachusetts. AWD Curwen 16. Market Street, San Francisco. HPL Test (online text) 20. Royal Northwest Mounted Police Canada. AWD Beyond2 172; Ithaqua 105-106; Wind (online text) constables investigated the Stillwater mystery. Incl: Dalhousie, John; Herrick, Peter; Norris, Robert. HPL Call (online text) 146. Of Tahiti. Albert Keith stayed there. [RB Strange] Of New Orleans. Personal aide to Henricus Vanning. RB Sebek 120, 122-124, 126-127. See: Roba el Ehaliyeh. Paris. HPL Medusa (online text) 170. Roman provincial quaestor. FBL Hills (online text) 287. See cone-creatures. Synonym for R'lyeh. FL Terror2 towers of Rulay 283, same as R'lyeh 288. In Lord Dunsany. HPL Case (online text) 148. Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123. AWD Lurker 117, 136; Wind (online text) steppes mentioned by Allision Wentworth while raving of his year spent with Ithaqua. RB Sorcerer (online text) 155, 161. Incl: Siberia. See also: Soviet Union. HPL Whisperer (online text) 214, 216. AWD OutThere Synonym for R'lyeh, according to Duncan Vernon. AWD OutThere Synonym for R'lyeh, according to Duncan Vernon. |
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