![]() ![]() ![]() 1976, Lyon Sprague De Camp, Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy.“ an' the children shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an' Father Dagon what we all come from onct-Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn. Lovecraft, Orintage Publishing, page 365: Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth written in November–December 1931, published in 1936, reprinted 2013 in Complete Collection of H. This text, as given, ran something like this: "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." What, in substance, both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: " Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." Legrasse had one point in advance of Professor Webb, for several among his mongrel prisoners had repeated to him what older celebrants had told them the words meant. ![]()
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