Necronomicon

Written by i j

Thursday, 04 March 2010 17:24

Today i World like to talk about a special book, today we talk about…

Necronomicón

Remember to copy each of the formulas exactly as I wrote them, and don’t change them even in a line or point, not even in the thick of a hair or they would lose their power, or even worst: because a broken star is the gate for gaznir, the gate of dead, the gate of shadows.

H.P.Lovercraft was the first one in writing about Necronomicon and that reference date from 1922. Since then the existence of the book has been questioned. H.P. Lovercraft describes the book as a guide to the world of dead which created a lot of interest all over the world.

In 1938 an article was published in “The Rebel Press”, its author “Wilson H. Sheperd” resumes the history of Necronomicon. In that article is written that the original title of the book was “Al Azif” (Azif is the name that Arabians give to the sound that creates an insect in the night and its supposed to be the whispering of the demons).

The book was wrote by Abdul Al-Azred, a poet of Sana that lived around year 700, that poet visited the ruins of babilonia and the subterranean ruins of Menfis, After that he spent 10 years in the southern Arabia desert, that desert is supposed to be habited by spirits that protect us from evil and by monsters of dead, in deed nowadays the people that visit that place says that strange things happens in that place.

Abdul expend the last years of his life in Damasco and it seems that it was then when he wrote necronomicon, after writing it he died around 738 D.C., Ibn-Khallikan related his dead as being seized and eaten by an invisible and monstrous attacker in front of dozens of witnesses.

It seems that in those dates Abdul was completely crazy, he asserted that he had visited the famous Irem, the city of pillars and to have found in a ruins near it the rest of a secret race older than humanity, Abdul had very little relation with religion, in deed he was pretty heretic… Abdul worshiped entities that were unknown like Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.

We could believe that after his dead everything ended by that wasn’t the case, in 950D.C. Azil had been secretly distributed by epoch philosophers being translated into Greek language, during those decades there happened several terrible events related with the book that ended with the prohibition of reading it.

It wasn’t until 1228 that someone talked again about the book of dead, it was Olaus Wormius that printed a Latin edition that was printed in the XV and XVII century.

None of those editions have any reference to when or where they printed, both editions where forbidden by pope Gregorio IX in 1232, that give the books a special relevance since they were recognized by Christianity as something more than simple rumors.

But if anything characterizes necronomicon more than anything else it’s the strange circumstances in which the book has been repeatedly lost or destroyed.

No one know where the Greek edition is, it was lost during the XII century but there seemed to exist a secret copy of it in San Francisco, it was destroyed during a fire in 1906.

It is known that there were several copies of the Greek version in Italy but they were all destroyed in another fire in 1692.

It’s also known that Dr. Dee had a transcription of the book ready to be published that was never released, all notes and texts about that version are lost.

Luckily the book has survived all those “accidents”, the Latin texts that we mentioned earlier are kept in the British museum and the Paris national library although none of them are visible to the public, there are a few copies of them, one is known to be located in the Widener library in Harvard and another is located in Miskatonic, Arkham.

Rumors says that all those “strange incidents” stopped to happen when there was no doubt about the existence of several secret copies making the destruction of all them an almost impossible task to achieve.

¿could it be everything that we see and sense a dream inside a dream?