Yog-Sothoth
great old oneIanitor portarum—The gate, the key, and the guardian of the gate
Plate wanting.Withdrawn from the folio, or never engraved.
Yog-Sothoth is the cosmic Old One who is the gate, the key, and the guardian of the gate whereby the spheres meet, in whom past, present, and future are one; Old Whateley groomed his grandson Wilbur to open the gates to Yog-Sothoth, whose own offspring was unleashed upon Dunwich as Wilbur's monstrous twin.
The Necronomicon declares that Yog-Sothoth knows the gate, is the gate, and is the key and guardian of the gate, in whom past, present, and future are all one; it knows where the Old Ones broke through of old and where they shall break through again. Wilbur, as a child, once shrieked its dreadful name within a circle of stones with a great book open before him, and the hills shook.
On his deathbed, Old Whateley instructed his grandson to 'open up the gates to Yog-Sothoth' with a long chant to be found on page 751 of 'the complete edition,' and Wilbur later traveled to Arkham and Cambridge in search of exactly such a formula. When the horror born of this design was finally destroyed atop Sentinel Hill, its dying, croaking voice called out in agony, 'FATHER! FATHER! YOG-SOTHOTH!' — revealing Yog-Sothoth as the true, otherworldly father of both Wilbur and his monstrous twin.
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Every fact above traces back to the text.
“Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.”
The Dunwich Horror (1929) — Chapter 5
“Open up the gates to Yog-Sothoth with the long chant that ye'll find on page 751 of the complete edition, an' then put a match to the prison. Fire from airth can't burn it nohaow!”
The Dunwich Horror (1929) — Chapter 4
“Eh-ya-ya-ya-yahaah ... e'yaya-yayaaaa ... ngh'aaaa ... ngh'aaaa ... h'yuh ... h'yuh ... HELP! HELP! ... ff—ff—ff—FATHER! FATHER! YOG-SOTHOTH!...”
The Dunwich Horror (1929) — Chapter 10