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




NOTES ON PRONUNCIATION

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

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 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 :

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 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


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