THE BOOK OF SKELOS:

The Death-Chant of Golgoroth

by ALLEN MACKEY

Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly

Of the black cone amid the polar waste;
Pushing above the ice-sheet, lone and drearly
By storm-crazed aeons battered and defaced . . .
--Lin Carter

Note: This brief rite is claimed to be from the Book of Skelos and is
repeated in The Nemedian Fragments. My copy of the latter is only
partial, with profuse hand-written annotations. I do not know who
the previous owner was, only who had led me to the singular
manuscript. That person was Adam Qade, who is now deceased and
can no longer answer any of my questions about the entire event. So
there is the origin of the "The Death-Chant of Golgoroth."

The Death-Chant of Golgoroth

I! I! Golgor fhtagn hil'legm iz'ulla crhran Ephiroth!

I! I! Golgor! Golgor! Bal-Sagoth fhtagn! H'urn'n!

O dark god of Atlantis, the province Bal-Sagoth,

Wake and attend to me! The Red Offering has been made

The way is open! Awake and attend to me!

Come from beneath the black cone of Mount Antarktos!

Quumyagga take wing and destroy _______, my foe!

With great fury and swiftness, O death from above!

 I! I! Golgoroth! Golgoroth
Antarktos! Yaa-haa
Quumyagga! Quumyagga!
Quumyagga nng'h aargh--!
I! I! Golgoroth! Yaa-haa
Quumyagga! Quumyagga!
Ephiroth! nng'h wu'rgl'eee
QUUMYAGGA! A'yiiii, Yaa-haa a'yiiii!
COMMENT: It seems that the rite described above had actually been
performed at least once in modern times. The ink scrawls beside the
translation claimed to have done just that, in casual tones and that
the result was disastrous for the casters ... but did not into any further
detail. The final portion of the rite is from The Zimbabwe Rituals, as
translated by Professor Orson Mayhew and published in a limited run
of 500 copies by the Miskatonic University Press in 1951.

I have also taken the liberty of appending the following extract,

which I found in the 1964 English language edition of Otto Dostman's
classic book of 1809, Remnant of Lost Empires. The book had been
meticulously researched by Professor Harlan Price of the Golden
Bough University of upstate New York. This fragment is from
Chapter Five ["The Black Stones of Zimbabwe"], which is primarily
concerned with the south-eastern Africa, which is littered with
literally thousands of ancient towers made of massive stones and all
once connected by now-broken roads; needless to say, a complete
mystery to modern archaeology.
...the black natives of the region speak of ancient ruins deep in the jungle, ruins
that were not made by men but by beings who came down from the stars when
the Earth was young. Indeed the Gallas of Uganda refer to these non-human
beings as the Fishers from Outside. It is said too that the relics of this ancient
race are buried around their black stone towers, and that a tablet of black stone,
called the Kherress-Taw, is hidden somewhere under the main complex of
towers, and that by use of this stone may the Fishers from Outside be called back
to the Earth which they have long abandoned.
Obviously, there is a case for the serious and open-minded field
research that will uncover the secrets of the prehuman ruins. There is
more work yet to be done.