The Necronomicon

What man knoweth Kadath? For who shall know of that which ever abides in strange-time, twix yesterday, today and the morrow.

Original title Al Azif — azif being the word used by Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia -- the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients -- and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it.
In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus,
where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told.

He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses.

Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.

2 Comments

Comment by Lady Shaman on July 22, 2008 at 11:03pm: As I rarely trust what I read and question just about everything until it feels right to me. Would someone care to educate me as to necronomicon. I was told that it/he/whatever was/is evil. Is this true?

Comment by Kashshaptu Asar on August 13, 2008 at 12:24am

Well The Necrinomicon is known to be a fiction novel by the late HP Lovercraft , about the "mad" Arab. But it is also said that HP got his inspiration from real experiences with spirituality.
I can not say that this is actual truth but as I trust my instincts I do believe that HP was visited from another dimension and that the visitor helped him to write the book as it is ment to be a scholar book similar to the " Bible" and others...
If this is true or not I haven´t got the faintest idea....