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Theophilus Wenn (most likely a pseudonym). The book is often dated to the
17th century, though research indicates that it might have turned up at the
University of Salamanca in medieval times. One copy, published in 1872 by
Oakley Press, may be found at the Miskatonic University Library, and other
manuscript copies have also been circulated.
In addition to the usual references to demons, vampires, and the like, the
book also contains seven incantations of great power. Three of these are for the
creation of various protective charms, and another three may be used against the
wizard's enemies. The seventh, which summons a hideous demon, is especially
perilous, as it requires a blood sacrifice made at an altar to the Great Old Ones
in exchange for great wealth. Wenn's curious distinctions between black, white,
and grey magic will also be of interest to students of the occult.
[This book is not to be confused with Amber K's paperback manual of the
same name.]
("The Seventh Incantation", Brennan (O); Devil's Children, Conyers, Godley,
and Witteveen; Miskatonic University Graduate Kit, Petersen et. al.)
TRU'NEMBRA. Outer God also known as the Angel of Music, manifesting
itself as an unearthly melody. Tru'nembra only comes to Earth when a master
musician has somehow come to the god's attention. The musician hears music
that no one else may perceive, and these melodies become more captivating-
Eventually, Tru'nembra manifests to bear the musician back to Azathoth's
court, to play there for all eternity. This might have been the fate that befell
Erich Zann.
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See Zann, Erich. (Ye Booke ofMonstres, Aniolowski (O).)
TSAN-CHAN. Oriental empire that will come into being three thousand years
in the future. It may be that by this time the return of the Great Old Ones will
have occurred, and that non-human masters will rule this empire.
See Yiang-Li. ("Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (O), Lovecraft; "The Shadow
Out of Time", Lovecraft.)
TSANG, PLATEAU OF. Region in Asia inhabited by the Tcho-Tcho people.
Some maintain that this place is identical to the Plateau of Leng; perhaps Tsang
is a point where Leng intersects our own dimension. In a cavern on Tsang rests
Chaugnar Faugn, the Tcho-Tcho's god. Here he waits for the time when he
shall journey west and devour the world.
The mountains beyond Tsang, according to Harold Hadley Copeland, were
at one time the home of a group of refugees who fled the destruction of Mu.
The great wizard Zanthu led the survivors, who later buried him in an ancient
graveyard somewhere in this region.
[Tsang, or Hou-tsang, is a province in the south of Tibet. Its major city is
Shigatse or Xigaze. Whether Long knew this or not is unknown.]
See Chaugnar Faugn; Copeland, Harold; Miri Nigri; Tcho-tchos; Zanthu
Tablets. ("The Curse of Chaugnar Faugn", Barton; "The Dweller in the Tomb",
Carter; "The Horror from the Hills", Long (O).)
TSATH. Capital city of the subterranean land of K'n-yan. The people of
this land named their capital in honor of the Great Old One Tsathoggua before
they banned his worship.
See K'n-yan; Tsathoggua. ("The Mound", Lovecraft and Bishop.)
TSATH-YO (possibly also ELDER SCRIPT). Primal language used in the land
of Hyperborea millions of years ago.
See Book of Dzyan; Testament of Carnamagos. ("Through the Gates of the
Silver Key", Lovecraft and Price.)
TSATHOGGUA (also SADOGUI, SAINT TOAD, or ZHOTHAQQUAH). Great
Old One whose amorphous body usually takes the form of a furry toad-like
being with sleepy eyes and a toothy grin, or a combination of bat and sloth. The
genealogist Pnom maintains that Tsathoggua, the offspring of Ghisguth and
Zstylzhemghi, came with them and its grandfather Cxaxukluth from a distant
galaxy to Yuggoth when it was still an infant. Secreting itself in deep caves on
Yuggoth to hide from its grandsire, Tsathoggua later made its way to Saturn.
According to other myths, the inhabitants of a dark planet at the edge of our
system brought Tsathoggua to Earth from Saturn.
Some insist that the toad-god remained in an alien species' ruined city of
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Yuth in the stone desert of K'li-Phon-N'yah after his arrival on Earth. Nonethe-
less, most authorities agree that after its arrival it left Yuth to take up residence
in the black caverns of N'Kai. It lived beneath Mount Voormithadreth for a
brief while, retreating to its former home when his worship declined and the
ice whelmed Hyperborea. A few heretics insist that it lies in a cavern beneath
Averoigne, but they are probably incorrect. At some point, Tsathoggua mated
with Shathak, who begat Ossadagowah, and a serpent person with which it
sired Kzadool-Ra, whom it destroyed later in a fit of jealousy.
The serpent-men of the red-litten cavern of Yoth were the first to worship
Tsathoggua. From Yoth its worship spread to K'n-Yan, and thence to the arctic
land of Lomar and the outer world. First the Voormis and later the human
invaders of Hyperborea revered the toad-god. The Atlantean high priest Klar-
kash-ton revived its cult, and the dark Averones who fled Atlantis for Averoigne
took its worship with them. The Druids of Averoigne revered the god's utter-
ances, voiced through a slowly devolving oracle. A French cult of Tsathoggua
was powerful into medieval times and still survives today. The Narragansett
and Wampanoags of Massachusetts worshiped it at one time, but they later
gave up this adoration. The people of Zothique will know him as Zathogwa
the Outcast, but his cult will be outlawed in those distant times.
Tsathoggua's cult may survive in underground sanctuaries in major cit-
ies, gaining power from orgies and sacrifices. Some say that Tsathoggua gains
sustenance from human war and instability. Others claim that the god has had
such little worship that most of his physical substance has dispersed. Those
who attend his rites may degenerate, gaining animalistic characteristics due
to their proximity.
The beasts of the wood held a special reverence for Tsathoggua, and cats were
known to guard its shrines in Averoigne. In addition, it is served by formless
black entities called his spawn, though the exact degree of relationship between
the two is unknown, and the reanimated dead. Only one of Tsathoggua's ritual
chants is known:
N'ggah-kthn-y'hhu! Cthua t'lh gup rlhob-g'th'gg Igh thok!
G'llh-ya, Tsathoggua! Y'kn'nh, Tsathoggua!
It hath come!
Homage, Lord Tsathoggua, Father of Night!
Glory, Elder One, First-Born of Outer Entity!
Hail, Thou Who wast Ancient beyond Memory
Ere the Stars Spawned Great Cthulhu!
Power, Hoary Crawler in Mu's fungoid places!
la! Ia! G'noth-ykagga-ha!
la, la, Tsathoggua!
Tsathoggua's high rites are performed on May-Eve and Halloween. Lesser
festivals are held on the nights of the new moon between midnight and 3
a.m.
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Rumor has it that Tsathoggua has been cast out from his brethren among the
Great Old Ones for a truly terrible and revolting act. One authority maintains
that he is identical with Chaugnar Faugn, though this is unlikely.
[As Robert M. Price observes, Lovecraft and Smith's versions of Tsathoggua
are quite different in their appearances, histories, and relations to Cthulhu.]
See Atlach-Nacha; Book of Eibon; Book of K'yog; Chaugnar Faugn; Co-
dex Dagonensis; Commoriom; Crom-Ya; Cthaat Aquadingen; Cxaxukluth;
Cykranosh; du Nord, Gaspard; Eibon; elemental theory; Eye of Tsathoggua;
Eye of Ubbo-Sathla; Fishers from Outside; formless spawn; Ghisguth; Great
Old Ones; Hyperborea; Hziulquoigmnzhah; K'n-yan; Kythamil; N'kai; Nug
and Yeb; Nyogtha; Ossadogwah; Parchments ofPnom; Satampra Zeiros; serpent-
people; Shathak; Temple of the Toad; Voola ritual; Voormis; Voormithadreth;
Yhoundeh; Yoth; Yuggoth; Zoth; Zstylzhemghi. ("The Terror of Toad Lake",
Ambuehl; "Death is an Elephant", Bloch; "Tsathoggua", Fantina; "The Old One",
Glasby; "The Oracle of Sadoqua", Hilger; Selected Letters III, Lovecraft; Selected
Letters IV, Lovecraft; "The Mound", Lovecraft and Bishop; "The Round Tower",
Price; "Oh, Baleful Theophany", Pugmire; Cthulhu Live: Lost Souls, Salmon et.
al.; The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Shea and Wilson; The Black Book of Clark Ashton
Smith, Smith; "The Door to Saturn", Smith; "The Family Tree of the Gods",
Smith; "The Seven Geases", Smith; "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros", Smith (O);
Necronomicon, Tyson; "The Resurrection of Kzadool-Ra", Vester.)
TSATHOGGUANS. Beings that infest the minds of every person and keep them
from fulfilling their whole potential. Although the name suggests the Mythos,
they are totally unconnected with Tsathoggua or any other Great Old One.
(The Mind Parasites, Wilson (O).)
T'SMAN MANUSCRIPT. Work of at least six volumes, each apparently written
by a different author to detail the history of the Old Ones. Nothing is known
of most of the authors. The writer of the fourth book was Ythth Ghuggl'ingh, a
priest of Nyarlathotep, to whom an old man had passed on the duty of writing a
volume. Ythth in turn chose a Scandinavian named Valdur to compose the fifth,
providing him with much of the material. Nyarlathotep was enraged when he
found out how much this particular volume had revealed, imprisoning Ythth
and killing Valdur, but he was unable to find the fifth volume.
An edition of this work was issued by Robert Edwards. This might be identi-
cal with one in an unknown language with an Elder Sign on the cover.
("The Curse of the Toad", Hall and Dale; "The Gunfight against Nyarla-
thotep", Larson; "The Spawn of the Y'lagh", Larson (O).)
TULZSCHA. Being who appears to be a pillar of green flame and serves as one
of the dancers at Azathoth's court. It is worshiped in the West Indies, France,
Italy, and possibly the Middle East. A cult based in Kingsport, Massachusetts
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disbanded approximately two hundred and fifty years ago.
Rites of Tulzscha are always performed at solstices, equinoxes, or other as-
tronomically significant times. It is said that the most faithful of Tulzscha's wor-
shipers survive death in a fashion, dwelling forever in their rotting corpses.
[This creature is first described in Lovecraft, who does not call it a god and
hints that deeper mysteries await the members of the Kingsport cult.]
See Outer Gods. ("The Festival", Lovecraft (O); "The Kingsport Cult"
Ross.)
THE TUNNELER BELOW. Book of poems by Georg Reuter Fischer, a young
man from Vulture's Roost, California. Hollywood's Ptolemy Press published
the book in 1936. Much as other writers, Fischer received the inspiration for
this volume of poems from his dreams. In addition, he acknowledged the in-
fluence of Derby's Azathoth and Other Horrors upon his work. Unfortunately,
a year after the book's publication, Fischer perished in an earthquake which
destroyed his home.
Both UCLA and Miskatonic University own copies of this book. The po-
ems in the Tunneler Below include such works as "The Green Deeps" and "Sea
Tombs". These two works contain references to "Cutlu", "Rulay", and "Nath",
though the author does not explain what these terms mean.
See Azathoth and Other Horrors. ("The Terror from the Depths", Leiber
(O).)
TUSCAN RITUALS. Volume that, according to the Roman historian Pliny,
contains information on the rites of Summanus. This book probably came
from the Tuscany province of Italy. A copy may be consulted at the British
Museum.
[Pliny's Natural History (11.53) actually refers to "Tuscan writings" on the
nine gods responsible for lightning.]
See Summanus. ("What Dark God?", Lumley (O).)
TUTTLE, AMOS. Occultist who lived near Arkham. A noted world traveler
earlier in his life, Tuttle spent the last twenty years of his life secluded in his
house, studying his priceless collection of occult manuscripts. After his death in
1936, his house was passed on to his nephew Paul. Paul vanished soon thereafter,
and his books were bequeathed to the Miskatonic University library.
("The Return of Hastur", Derleth (O); Miskatonic University, Johnson et.
al.; Ex Lihris Miskatonici, Stanley.)
TWIN OBSCENITIES. Title given to the Great Old Ones Zhar and Lloigor,
who lie imprisoned together beneath the Plateau of Sung.
See Lloigor; Zhar. ("The Lair of the Star-Spawn", Derleth and Schorer
(O).)
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T'YOG. High priest of Shub-Niggurath in the country of K'naa on Mu. He
made a special scroll to protect him during his confrontation with Ghatanothoa,
but Ghatanothoa s priests substituted another scroll for his. As a result of this,
T'yog earned himself an unpleasant fate.
See Ghatanothoa; Shub-Niggurath. ("Out of the Aeons", Lovecraft and
Heald (O).)
TYPER, ALONZO H ASBROUCH. Occultist from Kingston, NY who vanished
near the abandoned van der Heyl mansion on April 17, 1908. Typer went to
private school as a youth and was later to attend Columbia and the University
of Heidelburg, where he became the pupil of the noted anthropologist Victor
Gibson. He traveled in the East a great deal, making it as far as Easter Island
in 1899, visiting many sites with his now-vanished friend Victor Heauton.
Even his colleagues considered Typer's research bizarre; many of his occult
papers could only be privately published, and he resigned from the Society
for Psychical Research in 1902. His disappearance has left authorities puzzled,
though a diary found in the van der Heyl mansion in 1935 and the Reverend
Edgar Dowling's psychic research have provided wildly unlikely accounts of
his life thereafter.
See the Book of Hidden Things. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer", Lovecraft
and Lumley (O); "The Statement of One John Gibson", Lumley; "The Strange
Fate of Alonzo Typer", Price; "The Jest of Yig", Webb.)
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UBAR. See Irem.
UBB (also UB-BG'ZTH). Being known as "The Father of Worms." Ubb is the
leader of the mysterious race known as the yugg, which number among its
offspring, the Ubbya. When encountered, Ubb has resembled a huge member of
that species. Ubb assisted Zanthu in the destruction of Mu. it is believed to have
been the source of King Solomon's wealth and supposed magical abilities.
Some have attributed even greater power to Ubb, stating that it is a force
which encourages all living things to survive and multiply.
See yuggs; yuggya. ("Out of the Ages", Carter (O); "The Thing in the Pit",
Carter; Other Nations, Marsh and Marsh; "A Private Inquiry into the Pos-
sible Whereabouts of Clara Boyd", Marsh et. al.; "Soul of the Devil-Bought",
Price.)
UBBO-SATHLA. Protoplasmic, featureless being said to have spawned all
earthly life (possibly including humans), and to whom all such life will return in
the end. Its spawn are endlessly created and cast off about it, with Ubbo-Sathla
recapturing and devouring many of them with its pseudopods.
There are a number of conflicting stories about Ubbo-Sathla's origins. It has
been said that, eons ago, when our world was in an alternate universe, the Elder
Gods created both Azathoth and Ubbo-Sathla to be their slaves. Ubbo-Sathla
rebelled against its makers, using knowledge stolen from them to send itself
and the earth into this dimension. During the battle which ensued, the Elder
Gods captured Ubbo-Sathla and made it mindless (though some maintain
that it was this way to begin with), as they were purported to have done with
Azathoth as well. Other myths state that Ubbo-Sathla was the creation of the
Elder Things, who used it initially to spawn their shoggoths.
Some hold that Ubbo-Sathla is also the parent of all of the Great Old Ones
who opposed the Elder Gods, as well as the Great Ones who men worship.
Considering the extraterrene origins of most of the Great Old Ones, this is
probably inaccurate. Rather, it is likely that Ubbo-Sathla entered into alliance
with the Great Old Ones when they came down from the stars and aided them
in their designs. A few of the Great Old Ones, such as Nyogtha and Zuchequon,
