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The Necronomicon Comes
from the Biblical Lands...
of the Middle East
From the words of an ancient Arab
Wanderer and Scholar...
Henceforth, from that fateful night in the mountains of Masshu, I
wandered
about the countryside... in search of the key... to the secret
knowledge
that had been given me. And it was a painful and lonely journey,
during
which time I took no wife, called no house or village my home, and
dwelt
in various countries, often in caves or in the deserts, learning
several
tongues as a traveler, to bargain with the trades people and learn
of
the news and customs.
But my bargaining... was with the Powers... that reside in each of
these
countries. And soon, I came to understand... many things of
which before I had no knowledge, except perhaps in dreams. The
friends of my youth deserted me, and I them.
When I was seven Years gone... from
my family, I learned that they
had all died... of their own hand, for
reasons... no one was able to
tell me; their flocks of sheep... had
later been slain... as the victims
of some strange epidemic.
I wandered as a beggar, being fed from town to town, as the local
people
saw fit, often being stoned... instead of threatened with
imprisonment. On occasion, I was able to convince some learned
man... that I was a sincere scholar, and was thereby permitted to
read the Ancient Records... in which the details of necromancy,
sorcery, magic and alchemy are given.
I
learned of the spells... that cause men illness, the plague, blindness,
insanity and even death. I learned the various classes of demons
and evil gods that exist, and of the old legends... concerning the
Ancient Ones.
I was thus able to arm myself... against the dread Maskim, who lie
in wait about the boundaries of the world, ready to trap the unwary
and devour the
sacrifices... set out at night and in deserted places; against the she-devil LAMMASHTA, who is called
"Sword that Splits
the Skull", the sight of whom,
causes horror and dismay, and
(some say) death of a most uncommon nature.
In time... I learned of the names and properties... of all the demons,
devils, fiends and monsters listed herein, in this Book of the Black
Earth.
I learned of the powers... in the astral Gods, and how to summon
their aid... in times of need. I learned, too, of the frightful beings...
who dwell beyond the astral spirits, who guard the entrance to the
Temple of the
Lost, of the Ancient Days the Ancient of the Ancient
Ones, whose name I cannot write here.
In my solitary ceremonies... in the hills, worshipping with fire and
sword, with water and dagger, and with the assistance of strange
grass... that grows wild... in certain parts of the Masshu, and with
which, I had unwittingly built my fire... before the rock, that grass
that gives the mind great power... to travel tremendous distances...
into the heavens, as also into the hells, I received the
formulae...
for the amulets and talismans which follow, which provide the
priest... with safe passage... among the spheres... wherein he may
travel... in search of the Wisdom.
But now, after One Thousand-and-One moons of the journey, the
Maskim...
nip at my heels, the Rabishu... pull at my hair, Lammashta
opens her dread
jaws, AZAG -THOTH gloats blindly at his throne,
KUTULU raises his head and stares up... through the Veils of
sunken Varloorni, up through the Abyss, and fixes his stare upon
me; wherefore I must with haste write this Book... lest my end
come sooner than I had prepared.
For indeed, it appears as though I have failed in some regard...
as to the
order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices,
for now it
appears as if the entire host of ERESSKIGAL lies
waiting, dreaming, drooling for my departure.
I pray the gods that I am saved (which he is
not, for "gods" cannot
save ones soul, only GOD) and not perish as did the Priest, ABDUL
BEN-MARTU, in Jerusalem, (the gods remember and have mercy
upon him!).
My fate is no longer writ in the stars, for I have broken the
Chaldean Covenant... by seeking power over the Zonei. I have
set foot on the moon, and the moon... no longer has power
over me.
The lines of my life have been obliterated... by my wanderings in
the Waste, over the letters writ in the
heavens... by the gods. And
even now, I can hear the wolves howling in the
mountains... as they
did... that fateful night, and they are calling my name,
and the
names of the Others. I fear for my flesh, but I fear for my spirit more.
Remember, always, in every empty moment, to call upon the
gods... not to
forget thee, for they are forgetful and very far away.
Light thy fires
high in the hills, and on the tops of temples and
pyramids, that they may see and remember.
Remember, always, to copy each of the formulae... as I have
put it down and not to change it... by one line or dot, not so
much... as hair's breadth,
lest it be rendered valueless, or worse:
a broken line... provides means of
entrance for those Outside,
for a broken star... is the Gate of GANZIR, the
Gate of Death,
the Gate of the Shadows and the Shells.
Recite the incantations as they are written here, in the
manner... thus
prescribed. Prepare the rituals... without erring
and in the proper places and times... render the sacrifices.
May the gods ever be merciful unto thee!
May thou escape the jaws of the MASKIM, and vanquish
the power to the Ancient Ones!
And may the Gods grant you death...
before the Ancient Ones...
Rule the Earth once more.
KAKAMMU! SELAH!

Diary of a Madman
To be a black magician... is perhaps ye most dangerous thing
one can attempt, for you risk not only your life and mind... but
your essence.... what
simpler minds call ye "soul" as well.
You may beat ye odds and become a god, but most likely
you will go mad.
Oh thou... who wrote of evil things remember : they always
are inspired by Ye Evil Ones... you shall meet... after your
passing, so turn your dark thoughts... to repentant prayer...
since ye road to Hell... is much shorter than what you
believe.
Do not let your wicked soul.... become as dark as this page.
We hunt a for a Horror
that Feeds on Human Tears...
After the western horizon's blood... turns black, and all
through the dusky hours, I, in my solitude, roam the far flung
realms of time.
In
ancient halls, with brazen censers smoldering, strange shadows
dance across vaulted ceilings and curtains of rich velvet. And
those stone chambers...
ring with echoes of the twisted language
of conjuration, lighted by the glow... of otherworldly powers.
The walls meet at impossible angles and there tread... unearthly
fiends...
that are deranged nightmares... come to life.
Frozen by fear, I remain
unseen. And there a tint of rose... in
the east... heralds the coming dawn. I am
released from my
nocturnal wanderings and am allowed to return... from whence I
came... beyond the wall of sleep. Only then, do all those things
vanish and be gone... with the morning mist... until my awakening...
once again gives them
life.
While traveling from island to island, I heard many tales of
ancient and forgotten lore. Although I dismissed many of
these stories... as
nonsensical superstitions, I found ye tale of
Orobla singularly significant. It evoked... half remembered feelings
that I had not felt... since
I had slept in ye ancient city... of many
pillared "Irem", (now called Iran) .
Hearken unto ye incessant prattle... that constantly spewed forth...
from ye many mouths of Orobla, ye Beast... of ye forgotten lies,
"Does ye horrid face... of Boac-Treth, tolerate frail human cowardice?
You know... that it can not. Such
is its nature.
So why, I say again unto you, why
do you not arise and strike
down ye blasphemers... who would deny
ye ultimate truth? You
know your cowardice... will not be
tolerated. Ye wrath of ye Old
Ones... will surely fall upon you all!
Do you not feel ye dreams...
of ye one... who sleeps beneath ye
waves?
Do you hope that he will be pleased
by your pathetic nature...
when his harsh gaze falls upon you?
No. Surely, he shall devour
you... with all of ye others... who
have forgotten ye way!
How can you continue to behave in such a frail and inconstant
manner...
when all of you have seen... ye wondrous lens of ye
moon and ye crucible of eternal vitae? You puny beings... are as worthless as so much excrement.
I will laugh with joy... when Yog-Sothoth and his favored son appear.
They together... shall set aright... all that has been mislaid. I shall
dance upon many legs... when ye cloven feet of ye Goat... with a
thousand young... pounds ye
infidels back... into ye dust from which
you arose.
I will be as one... with ye dark minion himself, ye one who walks
abroad...
in ye form of a man, but is not a man. I speak of he,
whose faces... are as numerous... as there are stars... in ye heavens.
His vicious rage... needs not be mentioned... for his way is known
to all men. You should fear... evoking his
wrath... for he is ye
left hand of ye center, ye voice of ye ultimate
destruction."
Such was ye way... that Orobla would speak. It had expounded
in this
incessant manner... for hours and days and years unnumbered, always cursing ye reticent nature of its many followers.
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Until that foretold day... when ye
Moon... was as
crimson... and flaming steel... fell from ye stars.
Upon that very day, when ye ruddy sphere...
hung at its apex... like a severed head, ye
Beast of forgotten lies... was silent.
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Orobla... has not uttered a sound since. His priests... who hide
amongst ye
men and women of Crete, reverently proclaim that
when Orobla speaks again...
ye world shall be undone. They claim
that R'leyh... shall be hurled into ye sky... and Cthulhu and his
kind... shall be freed... to rule once again.
I know not... if I should believe... all of ye strange tales they
told me, but ye previous legend... was told with such conviction,
that I felt compelled... to record it.
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Between ye dark and light
between heaven and hell,
between dream and wakefulness between ye heavens and earth,
there is only us.
It is still bright, but for how long?
There is something of heaven in death. Because I could not stop for Death
he kindly stopped for me,
Ye carriage held but him and me
and Eternity.
I live, I will die, I will leave,
I WILL come again.
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Through the ages... I have lived, secluded under the
impassable
mountains...
of the unknown Kaddath, but now, having dispelled
the arcane powers... that
kept me imprisoned, I have returned, and
I am here... to wreak fiery death
and chaos... upon your lowly race.
Behold the Power of Axn-Xcamr, the all powerful Keeper of the
Yellow Sign, he who is dead... yet lives!
Nay! Dead Cthulhu... lies not dreaming, rather, listening to the rhythm
of the waves, for they tell the fell story... of a noisome day to come,
when Cthulhu... shall spew forth... from dead R'Lyeh... to lead his
minions... on a rampage
of slaughter.... throughout the unsuspecting
world....
I can no longer tolerate... the slap slapping of the sea, for I hear
the cries, feel the vibrations... waving tentacles, deep down... pound
out an
ancient rhythm, hordes of batrachian mouths... gibber
fiendishly,
oh that I would never see the ocean again! Ia! Ia! Shib Niggurath
save me!
The goat with 1000 young... have mercy, nay, even as I grovel on
the
floor of this rented tenement, I feel the walls close in about me...
is
it? could it be? I hear them... the Hounds... the Hounds come
and I am doomed... Mna 'Fth'ngui Fgthan.
Humans are such foolish creatures... They know not of the Dark, of
the Things Within, of Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu, or Shub-Niggaroth.
Few of the foolish creatures, bolder, if less sane than the rest,
choose to learn, to understand. To find the secrets of the Night, to
learn...
that which none should know.
IA! IA!
There will come a day... when they will walk amongst you. They
will not be able to be seen... for what they are... by normal folk.
Only those amongst you...
with true faith... will be able to detect
their evil and be able to stop
them.
Do not fail... as the fate of the world... rests in your hands and
as such, if you fail, the human race is doomed.
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The night things... are called forth,
The time draws nigh,
To find out what a man's soul is worth.
In these trying times,
Death calls and a new journey am I become, An empty shell, is left under the lonely sun.
All that is, was and ever shall be...
Are in one spirit, a single journey.
If I should while I am awake,
My soul is gone, my body is fake.
Down into those endless depths I fly...
Where imagery of dark being...
are cast...
on a star lit sky.
All these things I have seen,
And even farther have I been...
I am become.
I am.
The Darkness waits, the febrile moon...
Casts arcane shadows.
I do not dare...
To utter your cursed name;
I soon
will meet the Watcher,
standing there at the Abyssal Gates.
I pay my toll...
In blood red gold.
The
veil parts, dim
and spectral lights...
illumine my soul,
and my dream-dark master...
calls me to him.
Ia! Io! Mine eyes are rent...
by glorious destruction!
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The Old Ones
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The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are
and the Old Ones shall be.
From the
dark stars...
They came here and man was born,
unseen and loathsome...
They
descended... to primal earth.
Beneath the oceans...
they brooded... while ages past,
till seas gave up the land.
Whereupon... they swarmed forth...
in their multitudes...
and
darkness ruled the Earth.
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At the frozen Poles... They raised mighty cities,
and upon high places...
the temples of Those...
whom nature owns not...and the Gods have cursed.
And the spawn of the Old Ones... covered the Earth,
and their children endures throughout the ages.
Ye shantaks of Leng... are the work of their hands,
the Ghosts who dwell.. in Zin's primordial vaults,
know Them as their Lords.
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They have fathered the Na-Hag and the Gaunts... that ride the Night;
Great Cthulhu... is their brother, the shaggoths,
are their slaves.
The Dholes... do homage unto them... in the
night vale of Pnoth...
and Gugs... sing their praises.. beneath
the peaks of ancient Throk.
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They have walked... amidst the stars
and they have walked the Earth.
The City of Irem... in the great desert,
has known Them;
Leng in the Cold Waste...
has seen Their passing,
The timeless citadel...
upon the cloud-veiled heights...
of unknown Kadath... bears Their mark.
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Wantonly, the Old Ones...
trod the ways of darkness,
and their
blasphemies...
were great upon the Earth;
All creation...
bowed beneath
their might,
and knew them for their wickedness.
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And the Elder Lords... opened their eyes and beheld the
abominations... of those that ravaged the Earth.
In their wrath... they set their hand... against
the Old Ones,
staying them... in the midst of their iniquity and casting
them
forth... from the Earth, to the Void... beyond the planes, where
chaos reigns and "form" does not abide.
And the Elder Lords... set their seal... upon the Gateway...
and the power of the Old Ones... did
not prevail... against its might.
Loathsome Cthulhu... rose then, from the deeps... and raged with
exceeding great fury... against the Earth Guardians. And
they
bound his venomous claws...
with potent spells... and sealed him
up, within the City of R'lyeh... wherein, beneath the waves... he shall
sleep death's dream.... until the end of the Aeon.
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Beyond the Gate... dwell now, the Old Ones...
not in the spaces... known unto
men...
but in the angles... betwixt them.
Outside Earth's plane...
They linger and ever await,
the time of their return.
For the Earth has known
them...
and shall know them,
in time yet to come.
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And the Old Ones... hold foul and formless Azathoth... for Their
Master and abide with him... in the black cavern... at the center
of all infinity, where he gnaws ravenously... in ultimate chaos...
amid the mad beating of hidden drums, the tuneless piping of
hideous flutes... and the ceaseless bellowing of blind idiot gods,
that shamble and gesture aimlessly forever.
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The soul of Azathoth... dwells in
Yog-sothoth,
and He shall beckon... unto the Old Ones...
when the stars... mark the time... of Their coming;
For
Yog-sothoth...
is the Gate...
through which... those of the Void... will re-enter.
Yog-sothoth...
knows the mazes of time...
for all time is one... unto Him.
He knows... where the Old Ones came forth...
in time... in the long past...
And where they shall come forth again...
when the cycle returns.
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After day... comes night; man's day shall pass, and They shall
rule... where they once ruled. As foulness... you shall know them,
and their accursedness...
shall stain the Earth.
This is ye story... of Ye Coming-Down... of Ye Old Ones... to Earth,
how they
left Ye Gates.... where they were waiting... and ye horrors
and wonders... they left
on their path.
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Ye Old Ones... came to Earth,
some say they created Mankind....
as slaves... for their wicked hunger.
Ye Old Ones... came to Earth,
but they did not bring Life there.
Long before their arrival,
Ubbo-Sathla...
dwelt in ye steaming fens...
of ye new made Earth,
for Ubbo-Sathla... is ye source... and ye end.
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This is a story of ancient times, long before Mankind.
For ye demise... of ye Old Ones... is for long gone. Some wise
scholars... tried to explain their demise... by odd correspondences
with earthly elements.
This vision... shall not fool ye Reader... by essence, ye Old Ones,
are not ruled by human motives. Their logic is twisted, and
mysterious... are their ways.
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Yet, ye Old Ones... are not gone.
They wait, sealed in forgotten places,
where they dream for ye time
when ye Stars will be right again.
Beyond ye
subterranean Wall,
Y’golonac sleeps, driven out of his dream...
by ye summoning... of those who seek evil.
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Ye coming-down... of ye Great Old Ones... from ye stars, it is
written in ye Book of Eibon... that ye first... who came hither,
was ye black thing, even Tsathoggua, who came hence... from
dim Cykranosh... not long after ye creation
of life... on this planet.
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Not through ye starry spaces... came Tsathoggua,
but by ye dimensions... that lie between them,
and of His advent.... upon this planet,
the place thereof... was ye unlit and
subterraneous... gulf of N'kai.
Wherein, whose gloomy depths he lingered...
for innumerable cycles,
as Eibon said, before emerging...
into ye upper world.
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And after this.... it was ye Great Cthulhu...
who came hither next,
and all His spawn... from distant Xoth, and ye Deep Ones... and
ye loathsome Yuggs... who be their minions; and Shub-Niggurath,
from nightmare - rumored Yaddith, and all they... that serve Her, even
ye Little People of ye Wood.
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But of ye Great Old Ones...
begotten by Azathoth... in ye prime,
not all
came down to this Earth,
for Him... Who Is Not To Be
Named.
Lurks ever... on that dark world...
near Aldebaran... in ye Hyades,
(now it is called Pleiades),
And it was His sons...
who descended hither in his place.
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Likewise, Cthugha chose for His abode....
ye star Fomalhaut,
whereupon...
He begat... ye dread Aphoom Zhah;
And Cthugha.... still abides on
Star Fomalhaut,
and ye Fire-Vampires... that serve him.
But as for Aphoom Zhah,
he descended to this Earth...
and still dwells.... in his frozen realm.
And terrible Vulthoom,
that awful thing... that be brother...
to black Tsathoggua,
He descended.... upon dying
Mars....
in His
might,
which is the world....
He chose for His dominion.
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Now it is also written... of those
of ye.... Begotten of Azathoth,
who abide
not...
within ye secret places... of ye Earth,
That when ye Great Old Ones...
came down from ye stars,
in ye misty prime...
They brought ye image and likeness...
of their Brethren with them.
In this... wise it was,
ye Outer Ones... that serve Hastur...
ye Unspeakable,
brought down
ye Shining Trapezohedron...
from dark Yuggoth... on ye Rim,
Whereupon, it had been fashioned...
with curious art... in ye days here
on Earth...
Before Earth... had yet brought forth.... its
first life.
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And it was through.... ye Shining Trapezohedron, that is ye very
talisman.... of dread Nyarlathotep, that ye Great Old Ones...
summoned to your aid... ye might of ye Crawling Chaos...
in ye hour... of your great need,
the time ye Elder Gods...
came hither in their wrath.
Likewise, it was ye Deep Ones... who carried to this world...
ye awful
likeness of serpent-bearded Byatis, on this planet, and
yet later, by ye dwellers... in primal Mu.
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For ye Great Old Ones... had
foreseen ye day
and ye hour of their need,
when they must summon to their
side...
those of their awesome Brethren.
Who had taken far worlds...
for ye place of their abiding,
and had brought hither these images...
for this very purpose.
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Now of these star-made eidolons, little there is.... that is known to
men;
it is said... they were wrought... by strange talimanic art, and
that ye
sorcerers and ye wizards... of this Terrene sphere... are not deemed worthy by ye Great Old Ones to be instructed in ye secrets thereof.
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But it is whispered... in certain old, forbidden
books... an awesome power...
lurks within
such images.
And that through them,
as through strange windows...
in time and space...

Those that dwell afar...
can sometimes be evoked and summoned
hither.
As they were... when it came to pass,
in the fullness of time,
ye
Elder Gods... descended on this world
in their wrath.
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And there be those that worship ye Great Old Ones....
through their image and likeness, but of this ye must be wary,
for such eidolons... can be uncanny, and
at times... are
known... to drink ye lives... of they that handle them unwisely,
or who seek through such images... to summon to this sphere...
those far off.... and better left undisturbed.
Neither is it wholly within ye knowledge of men... to destroy
such images, and many there be... that sought ye destruction
thereof.
Who found their own destruction; but against such images...
from beyond ye stars... ye Elder Sign... hath very great
power.
Although ye must beware... lest in ye conflict
... betwixt that which
you evoke... to destroy ye likeness... of That which slumbers
afar.
That you will not be consumed and swallowed up, or be yourself
destroyed thereby, and that utterly, even unto your immortal soul.

Concerning the Old Ones
and the
"Time"
Gates...
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Concerning the Old Ones, it is written,
they wait ever at the Gate...
And the Gate... is all places at all times.
For They know nothing... of time or place,
but are in all time and in all place...
together without appearing to be.
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There are those amongst them...
who can assume diverse Shapes and Features.
And any given Shape
and any given Face...
and the Gates... are for Them everywhere.
But the first. was that which I caused
to be opened, namely in Irem,
the City of Pillars,
the
City under the
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But wherever men sayeth the forbidden Words, they shall cause
there... a
Gate to be established... and shall wait upon Them Who
Come through the Gate.
Even as the Dhols, and the Abominable Mi-Go, and the Tcho-Tcho
people, and the Deep Ones, and the Gugs, and the Gaunts of
the Night and the Shoggoths and the Voormis.
And the Shantaks... which guard Kadath... in the Cold Waste and
the Plateau
of Leng.
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All are alike...
the Children of the Elder Gods.
But the Great Race of Yith...
and the Great Old Ones...
Failing to
agree, one with another,
and both... with the Elder Gods, separated.
Leaving the Great Old Ones...
in possession of the Earth.
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While the Great Race,
returning from Yith...
Took up their
Abode...
forward in Time... in Earth-Land...
not yet known,
to those who walk the Earth
today.
And there they wait...
till
there shall come again,
the winds and the Voices...
which drove them forth before.
And That which Walks on the Winds...
over the Earth,
and in the spaces...
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