{"id":240,"date":"2009-08-20T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2009-08-20T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:45:22","slug":"unearthed-for-h-p-lovecrafts-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/everything\/unearthed-for-h-p-lovecrafts-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthed for H. P. Lovecraft’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of H. P. Lovecraft’s birthday, I refer you to an article of mine<\/a> from a couple of years ago from my old Letters from Heck<\/em> column<\/a> over at The Footnote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Today’s sermon is taken from a passage in the Necronomicon<\/em>, which translates from the Greek roughly as “The Book of Dead Names” or “An Image of the Laws of the Dead” or somesuch. Originally the text was in an Arabic-language incunabulum titled Al-Azif<\/em>, which, depending on your idiom of preference and\/or your emotional state, translates either as “The Sound of Wailing Djinn in the Darkness” or “The Sound of Crickets and\/or Other Nighttime Noises, Probably Just the Wind.” It’s possible that azif<\/em> and hatif<\/em> are somehow linguistically related, as hatif<\/em> means “to cry out” and also “telephone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Al-Hatif is a telephone company in the Middle East and not much loved.<\/p>\n

It’s probably most accurate to say none of the above matters as the book mentioned above is an artifact of fiction that originally appeared in the early twentieth-century short stories of H. P. Lovecraft. But a lot of what passes for modern religion these days has a significant basis in fiction, so I don’t care.<\/p>\n

This is the passage:<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO KEEP READING — IF YOU DARE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In honor of H. P. Lovecraft’s birthday, I refer you to an article of mine from a couple of years ago from my old Letters from Heck column over at The Footnote: Today’s sermon is taken from a passage in the Necronomicon, which translates from the Greek roughly as “The Book of Dead Names” or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}