When HPL landed on Yuggoth,
he cried "My skin teareth and tuggeth!"
But he knew it meant trouble
when he started to bubble;
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When Cthulhu Sits on Yahweh's Throne
As a gag gift that Yule, a friend had given me a miniature reproduction of the biblical Ark of the Covenant.
(The Gift War is a tradition of venerable longstanding here in Paganistan.)
Amid all the holiday bustle, the Ark had yet to find a permanent home among my things. To get it out of the way for the time being, I'd set it on a shelf in the dining room.
Bad idea.
Among the circle of animals gathered around the Great Mother on her birth-stool beneath the Yule tree that year, the octopus netsuke was a real stand-out. Each sucker-cup rendered in loving detail, the little carved bone figure had compactly gathered its tentacles up around its body, thus making it eminently rollable.
After tracking down—again—where the kitten had batted the octopus off to this time, I resolved to get it out from underfoot. Looking for a safe place to stash it until I had time to put it away properly and (I'll admit it) spitefully savoring the petty blasphemy, I set it down between the outstretched wings of the little Ark of the Covenant's Cherubim Throne.
Really bad idea.
When Cthulhu sits on Yahweh's throne, beware.
Next day came the Great Christmas Tsunami of '04.
Almost 230,000 people were killed.
A Jewish Cthulhu Story
Sefer Shemot ha-Metim.
“Book of the Names of...” ...What? “...the Names of the Dead”? Or is it "...Dead Names"?
Yikes, my Hebrew's rusty. Unsurprising, I suppose, considering the fact that my Hebrew education came to a more or less screeching halt with my bar-mitza at age 13.
Damn Uncle Izzie and his fershtinkener books, anyway! Whatever possessed that crazy alter-kacker to leave his library to me—a secular Jew if ever there was one—instead of, say, to one of that coven of Qabalistic cronies he used to hang out with down in the shul basement?
Still, reluctantly, I find that my interest has been piqued. Whatever this book may be, it's certainly not a tractate of the Talmud.
Oh well: what do you think the Goddess gave us “Google Translate” for? I reach for my phone and begin to type.
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