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"Cthulhu Rising" by Aleister Lam

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The Necronomicon which originally known as Al Azif was translated into the Book of the Dead by the Rhode Island writer H P Lovecraft. Al Azif is the word used by the Arabs to designate the nocturnal sounds in the desert, supposedly to be the howling of demons but is in actual fact the sounds of insects. The original Necronomicon was composed by Abdul Alhazred, an eccentric and at times insane poet of Sanaa, in Yemen. Alhazred traveled widely and was knowledgeable in occult secrets and is said that he journeyed to Egypt which was at that time viewed in the interests of magical matters superior and contain invaluable source of information since the times of Moses. This is probably why the monstrous names which is present in Lovecraft’s Necronomicon have elements of Egyptian origin such as Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth and Nyarlathotep.
The Necronomicon tells of the Great Old Ones, who arrived on the primal earth Aeons ago before the dinosaur ever appeared, not to mentioned men’s existence. They dwelled in the deepest and darkest corners of the ocean depth and build the City of R’lyeh. When land appeared along with the birth of humankind the Great Cthulhu and the Old Ones rise from the ocean to build cities at the poles and raise immense temples to those cursed by the Gods. Their ghoulish spawns wreck havoc on earth and tempted the humans to commit sins beyond that of redemption. It is then that the Gods send the Celestial Guardians and fought the most devastating battle that ever descended upon earth. The Old Ones were defeated and bounded by potent spells that ironically sealed them within the City of R’lyeh, it is there that they were exiled into the chaotic void of another dimension till the end of the Aeons.
Also written within the Necronomicon are incantations that are able to open up a gateway that could awaken the slumbering God known as the Great Cthulhu. He is a giant of vaguely anthropoid outline with a pulpy, tentacled face and a octopus-like head; atop a grotesque, greenish and slimy body sprouting a pair of rudimentary wings. In this picture, I'm trying to illustrate that moment when Cthulhu rises from the subsiding whirlpool which is the portal into another dimension, as he awakens to claim his supremacy over the punitive human race.

Date	Name	Comment
18 May 2003	Vampyre	Loading... I cannot avoid commenting on this, as any other Lovecraft-fanatic would! Very nice, but, again, missing the bloodstains (hehehehehe). And Sonja (above)? You are right ... I AM real!!!!
8 Jun 2003	Marlena Cannon	Loading... The history of the Necronomicon that you tell of isn't entirely true. Cthulhu, the Elder Gods, and all that H.P. Lovecraft "translated" was actually his own creation. However, this literary device was so successful that even today many people aren't aware of this. Anyway, I like how Cthulhu here is "rising" above the tiny human on the cliff, and nice work coloring. Markers?
22 Jun 2003	Gil	Loading... Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! runs away screaming soooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!
15 Oct 2003	42jc42	Loading... Cthulhu ftaghn!! A bit anthropomorphic but lovely nonetheless.
12 Jul 2004	John Terrell Fell III	Loading... Also that whole bit about the Guardians and such was published after Lovecraft's death and is at great variance with Lovecraft's original concept of a valueless, meaningless universe of chaos. August Derleth coined the phrase "Chulhu mythos" and added his own ideas in to it. Lovecraft himself felt the ethics of Good vs Evil to be ridiculous.
10 Dec 2004	Guillermo 'Gwydionn' García	Loading... Interesting, I shall bind timeless suthulhu to be my minion... Great job with the markers, v. interesting. On a side note: Has anyone here had trouble saying that name? or misspelt it repeatedly? Lol I hope that I am not alone... "Y con el paso de los eones hasta la muerte puede fenecer"
21 Dec 2005	Anonymous	Loading... actually to misspell it would be a feat as Lovecraft actually spelled it multiple ways, and also pronounced it in multiple ways. Although traditionally it is pronounced as Cu-Thoo-Loo in letters to friends Lovecraft expressed it in many possible forms since the human language cannot properly disern the language of the outlandish beings(often mistaken for gods) in his stories.
20 Feb 2006	Anonymous	Loading... That is sooooo disturbing!It looks_retarded!!!
20 Oct 2006	Anonymous	Loading... Love the Cthulhu picture! Keep going Aleister, you obvouisly have talent.
2 Nov 2006	Anonymous	Loading... ... Its Kuh-thoo-hoo i think.
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'Cthulhu Rising':

• Created by:

Aleister Lam
• Copyright: ©Aleister Lam. All rights reserved!

• Keywords: Cthulhu, Hp, Incantation, Lovecraft, Necronomicon, Rising
• Categories: Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters
• Techniques: Pencil/Graphite Pen, Coloured Pencils, Watercolour
• Inspirations: H.P.Lovecraft
• Views: 1589
• Resolution: 700x509