CHART OF
COMPARISONS
(showing some relationships to be found between
the mythos of Lovecraft, the magick of Crowley, and the faith of
Sumer.)
Lovecraft | Crowley | Sumer |
---|---|---|
Cthulhu | The Great Beast as represented in "CTHDH 666" | Ctha-lu, Kutulu |
The Ancient Ones | Satan; Teitan | Tiamat |
Azathoth | Aiwass (?) | Azag-thoth |
The Dunwich Horror | Choronzon | Pazuzu |
Shub Niggurath | Pan | Sub Ishniggarab (?) |
Out of Space | The Abyss | Absu; Nar Mattaru |
IA! | IO! IAO! | IA (JAH; EA; Lord of Waters) |
The Five-pointed grey Star carven | The Pentagram | The AR, or UB (Plough Sign; the original pentagram and the sign of the Aryan Race) |
Vermis Mysteriis | The Serpent | Erim (the Enemy; and the Sea as Chaos; Gothic; Orm, or Worm, great Serpent) |
This is, of course, by no means a complete list but rather an
inspirational sampling. Meditation upon the various Things mentioned in the
Mythos will permit the scholar 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 head or Crowley is
hinted at darkly in his short story "The Thing On The Doorstep" in which he
refers to a cult leader from England who had established a covenstead of sorts
in New York. In that story, published in Weird Tales in 1936, the cult leader is
closely identified with chthonic 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 parentheses refer
to the state of correspondences before the advert 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 Mobile | ENLIL (ABSU) |
2. | Sphere of the Zodiac or Fixed Stars | ENKI; LUMASHI (IGIGI) |
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 |
30. | Fire | AG |
30. | Saturn | KAIMANU |
30. | (bis) Earth | KIA |
30. | (bis) Spirit | ZI |
WE CANNOT BE absolutely how Sumerian and Akkadian were spoken; but many
useful guidelines are available to the student, including the transliterated
tablets found all over Mesopotamia. Basically, we can offer the following
principles which should prove of value in reciting the foreign language
instructions :
Vowels
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 syllabary, very much like the Japanese "Kana" script of today. In
phonetic transliterations, the English spelling sought to approximate the
Sumerian pronunciation. However, there are a few sounds which English does not
possess, and which have been put into phonetic variations. Important examples
below :
Remember, in the transliterations 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 vowel sounds slur into 'kigh' rhyming with
"high"
The incantations should be said carefully and slowly at first, to
familiarise oneself with the tongue-twisting phrases. A mistake may prove fatal
to the Work