To call forth Him in the Gulf

And at the last from Inner Egypt came

The strange dark one to whom the fellahs bowed

Silent and lean and cryptically proud

And wrapped in fabrics red as sunset flame.

Throngs pressed around, frantic for his commands,

But leaving, could not tell what they had heard;

While through the nations spread the awestruck word

That wild beasts followed him and licked his hands.

Soon from the seas a noxious birth began
Forgotten lands with weedy spires of gold

The ground was cleft, and mad auroras rolled

Down on the quaking citadels of man.

Then, crushing what he chanced to mould in play

The idiot Chaos blew Earth's dust away.

Out in the mindless void the dæmon bore me,

Past the bright clusters of dimensioned space,

Till neither time nor matter spread before me,
But only Chaos, without form or place.

Here the vast Lord of All in darkness muttered
Things he had dreamed but could not understand

While near him shapeless bat-things flopped and fluttered

In idiot vortices that ray-streams fanned.

These danced insanely to the high, thin whining

Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw,

Whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining

Give each frail cosmos its eternal law.

"I am His Messenger," the dæmon said,

As in contempt he struck his Master's head.

H.P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep" and "Azathoth" from Fungi from Yuggoth.

Continuing a vague theme from the previous, in the spirit of general recklessness I've just stuck on Scribd a "Ritual to call forth Him in the Gulf" that I wrote about five years back and left sitting on my hard drive since I was too lazy to ever go out and do it.

The first two pages in a bad pastiche of 16th-century English comprise "flavour text" intended to connect this with the "Rite to call Yog-Sothoth" I wrote some years prior and have very little to do with the ritual itself. The "Prayer to Lord Iok-Sothoth" (a pastiche of the Pater Noster by Richard Tierney IIRC which appeared in the Chaosium Book of Eibon compilation) is omitted for copyright reasons.