The famous words Cthulhu fhtagn (Cthulu awaits) are short for: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, meaning: In its home R’lyeh, the dead Cthulu awaits dreaming. R’lyeh is a mythical flooded city, in which the Great Old One is sleeping. TENTACLE FACTOR: 3/3...
What, in substance, both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." ...
An Instant Classic For some time we have been meaning to finish up the work we’ve been doing on a Cthulhu Eternal SRD to cover the ‘Classical Era’ — and when I say “we”, I mostly mean Cthulhu Invictus co-inventor Chad Bowser, who has helmed this localization of our rules. TheC...
Amos Tuttle had read the story, and noticed that the sentence "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’ nagl fhtagn" also occurred in the R'lyeh Text. [AWD Hastur] John Conrad held that "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of the three master horror tales. [REH Children (online text)] ...
Amos Tuttle had read the story, and noticed that the sentence "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’ nagl fhtagn" also occurred in the R'lyeh Text. [AWD Hastur] John Conrad held that "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of the three master horror tales. [REH Children (online text)] ...
Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters: "Cthulhu fhtagn." ...
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“Cthulhu fhtagn”. These words had formed part of that dread ritual which told of dead Cthulhu’s dream-vigil in his stone vault at R’lyeh, and I felt deeply moved despite my rational beliefs. Wilcox, I was sure, had heard of the cult in some casual way, and had soon forgotten it...