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Home of the original 1975 H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu sculpture

I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.

Hieroglyphics covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below came a voice that was not a voice...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. — Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Right side and front middle panel: In his house See-Face-of-God dead Cthulhu dreams.

Left side and front pillars: Whoever damages inscriptions may Shamash and Marduk tear out his roots and his seed.

This statuette was found among the effects of a certain Mr. J. Dean after he died, having run a bookstore and curio shop in New Orleans on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter since his retirement in the 1930s. How he came by the statuette is unknown, however he did work for the New Orleans Times-Picayune as a reporter during the 1920s, and thus had occasion to cover certain unusual events in the southern swamps of Louisiana, including those reported by a certain Inspector Legrasse, a tale that eventually reached the ears of one Howard Philips Lovecraft. Also among Mr. Dean's effects were some correspondence with a Professor Gammell, Professor of Semitic languages, inquiring about the meaning of the inscriptions visible on the sides and front of the statuette. The translations on this page are reproduced from Professor Gammell's translation sent to J. Dean in reply.