Current mood:	curious
Current music:	Kumi Mizuno, "Matango"
Entry tags:	0123, charon, cthulhu, elder sign, hp lovecraft, lovecraft, mi-go, none of the above, pluto, yuggoth

It is a strange dark orb at ye very rim of our solar system
Poll #542996 "...unknown to earthly astronomers as yet?"
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Where is Yuggoth?

At ye proper time... ye beings there will direct thought-currents toward us and cause it to be discovered.

There is some confusion between Pluto and Yuggoth. They may be the same planet, Yuggoth may be Pluto's moon Charon, or it may be a ... trans-Pluto planet that hasn't been discovered by Earthly Astronomers.

Not that this will necessarily clear up any of the above confusion; but thanks to stonemirror for the "heads up" about the new planet in the outlying regions of our solar system, discovered by NASA-Funded Scientists ...although the sigil in that post might attract their attention; so, for those of you who don't have an elder sign handy, you should definitely use the glyph that HPL scribbled in a November 7, 1930 letter to Clark Ashton Smith... here's a version of that symbol that was created by S-P-O-N-G-E, an organization dedicated to exposing and uprooting the unspeakable horrors that exist on the fringes of our awareness:



What's so special about Yuggoth, you ask?
Well, we may find out, soon enough!
Meanwhile, here's a decent artistic rendering from the Lovecraft Tarot
H.P. Lovecraft mentioned Yuggoth in a few of his stories... and wrote an entire cycle of 36 Sonnets entitled, "Fungi from Yuggoth"
And not to mention, it was the place where the Shining Trapezohedron was constructed!

However, it was in _The Whisperer in Darkness_ (written in September of 1930), that HPL drops the hint about the real importance of Yuggoth:
"But Yuggoth, of course, is only the stepping-stone. The main body of the beings inhabits strangely organized abysses wholly beyond the utmost reach of any human imagination. The space-time globule which we recognize as the totality of all cosmic entity is only an atom in the genuine infinity which is theirs."

(also q.v. my recent contemplations of infinity, including references to Lovecraftian Cosmology)

And as Phil Hine points out, "Yuggoth, often identified with the planet Pluto, may be considered to be a contact-point between human consciousness and the outer spaces which are the domain of the Great Old Ones (see _Cults of the Shadow,_ by Kenneth Grant.)" And I am not certain what the source was for this information, but according to P.R. Koenig, Grant apparently made this notation concerning the year 1915: "Crowley attains Grade of Magus, the first recording of Outer Ones from Yuggoth as cited in (Neal) Wilgus' The Illuminoids." (And apparently, The Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon A.F. & A.M. claims that Wilgus cribbed much of his material for the conspiracy theories in _The Illuminoids_ from "the discredited and controversial writings of Nesta Webster")

So, you should be aware that Kenneth Grant has some extremely eccentric ideas about Yuggoth (and well, most things, really). Grant equates the word Yuggoth with the Hindu idea of the Yuga, or Aeon... So, in this case, apparently he says that Yuggoth refers to the Yuga of Goth, whatever that is? With all of these dark metaphors, you might think that for all of those PIBs at the dance clubs, it must be time to seize the day... er, um... night? Unless he's trying to say that it's time for another Norse uprising (i'm sure that Dragon Rouge would be happy to oblige!). But seriously, if you want to understand, check out LAM: The Dikpala of the Way of Silence (which uses a particular image as their yantra, that resembles a figure that most people now associate with "the grey aliens"), and which seems to have a new incarnation, at The Cult of Lam!

If you care to wade through some extremely eccentric pseudo-technological arcana, check out this article from RVMagic: "Exploring the Powers of the Dark Universe" which takes much of Kenneth Grant's ideas & the possibly even more peculiar theories of Michael Bertiaux, and filters them through "Powerquartz Psychotronic Crystals!" Perhaps you will consider that it's written in a cipher, and maybe you won't laugh so much... then again, maybe you should laugh as much as you possibly can, for a safer banishing ceremony?

OTOH, "(r)ather than attempting to simply ‘fit’ Lovecraftian imagery and themes into current magical belief systems," The Nyarlathotep Coven derives their inspiration from the primary source material, and they "make each ‘working’ a project of many stages, with the modus operandi of each successive stage determined by the results of the previous one..." One of their members, Phil Hine, mentions that "In (H.P. Lovecraft's short story,) _The Whisperer in Darkness_ we discover that the Mi-Go (aka the fungi from Yuggoth) are able to transport the consciousness of humans and other beings across space and time. Thus they may be considered as a kind of psychopomp – not so much into the realms of the dead, but into a state of consciousness from which there is no turning back." This is similar to the experience that i had during the Cthulhu Devival III, not entirely unlike the "Voudoun possession" which i enjoy through working with the IFA.

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So, for those of you who have not already been driven insane, and are still brave enough to explore beyond the outer reaches, here are some ideas for ceremonies that may be used to contact Yuggoth:

In The Rite of the Communion of Cthulu, Tenebrous even refers to participants being infused with the "Trans-Yuggothian energies of the Great God Cthulhu." Tenebrous associates Yuggoth with Kether... an idea he seems to have picked up from Grant & Bertiaux.

Another example of this tradition, The Cthonic Auranian OTO, apparently branched off from Grant's Typhonian OTO... for instance, in The Chalice of Ecstasy: Being a Formula of Open-ended Initiation Suited for this AEon, Based upon a merger of the Tree of Perfection, with the Cup of Babalon, under the Auspices of Jupiter Promulgated by Frater PVN, Master of Forbidden Alchemies... there is this mention: "As my older self, I channeled the fire of the Gods (Starlight focused thru Sothis onto Pluto/Yuggoth) from the Throne at Kether."

And why not learn something from Death Metal today? ...this is from an interview with Mezzadurus, of Philadelphia's Blood Storm: "Each BLOOD STORM album is a phase the of transplutonic currents that cross the deathian pylons of universe A and universe B. The process of each BLOOD STORM album / magikal current is the summaries of the realms of the great crimson desert Set-Typhon, Set-Hrilu, Set-Anubis and of the voids of starfire in the stellar reptillian forces beyond the dementions of the Outer Gateways. An extremely potent magikal phenomenia of the Yesodic power zones in the triple complex known as Yug-Yog-Yig. It is in the 3 currents of the triple fire tongue, which comprises 1) The Ultimate powerzone, Yuggoth (yug), 2) The Daathian doorways, Yog-Sothoth (sirius-the gate!), 3) The Yesodic Yig, which typifies the terrestrial manifestation of the Ophidian Current. Hence the 3 magikal elements in the Aeon of Horus, the Aeon of Maat, the Aeon of Set-Thoth which constructs the elder calculations of my draconian spirit. That's the 3 forms of the Meonic consciousness in BLOOD STORM. The Atlantean, Zothyrian, Yuggothian spectreal forces!"

Meanwhile, here is the original Fungi from Yuggoth ritual by the E.O.D. ...The Gnosis of Fear

Finally, these are Phil Hine's notes from The Nyarlathotep Coven Yuggoth Working (i don't care what you have to say about him, i think that Phil is a fun-gi... Oh, you think that was a lame pun? ...fine, mi-go away, now ...Not quick enough for you, huh? ...i guess i'd better move f-hastur! ...Good bye-akhee!!! Okay, i'm out.)

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PS wikipedia mentions that:

"Pluto was discovered by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona on February 18, 1930 when he compared photographic plates taken on January 23 and 29."

...and i was born on January 23, 1972!

...coincidence... or something... MORE?
...read the book!
...see the movie!
...eat the breakfast cereal!

(addended 080205 @ 10:44:34)