PONAPE SCRIPTURE

The Song of Cthylla

by ALLEN MACKEY

Note: This is a short liturgical work that had been extracted long ago
from the Ponape Scripture; as a matter of fact the text had been
excised carefully around the year 1963 by a nameless scholar in
England. Shortly afterward, Lin Carter managed to receive a copy,
where it had apparently languished in his extensive filing cabinets for
decades, lost and forgotten. In fact it is doubtful that Lin had ever re-
discovered the fragment because he did not polish it up for
publication, as he was wont to do with many of the chapters he had
helped translate. Fast forward a few years, 2016, in fact, and the
occasion I had found "The Song of Cthylla" in the stacks of personal
papers of occult researcher, Adam Qade. Gladly, I found the
condition of the text to be remarkable, considering its dubious
history.

The Song of Cthylla

Iä! Iä! Gh'rah-nnuh, Xoth fhtagn! Dr'sal-lhn--

Chythlla! Xoth-Ommis N'oth-K'sarr!

O Great Daughter of He Who Sleeps,

Dead But Dreaming

The Call of Cthulhu is felt in Her guts

As He is reborn through Her Womb

She is the Dark Woman of the Deep

Idh-Yaa! Six Eyes Open! Kh'uhh Ya'h!

Commentary: Evidently the Cthulhu Cultus had excised the text to
keep others from reading it; for details on Cthulhu's Daughter Cthylla
has been seldom obtained since she was invented by Brian Lumley in
his second novel, The Transition of Titus Crow (1974).