Arabia

region

Real-world: Arabia

The land of pathless deserts where old Castro thought the center of the cult lay, and where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.

Of the cult, Castro said that he thought its center lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia.

There, by his account, Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched — the secret heart of a worship older than any land the record names.

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“Of the cult, he said that he thought the center lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse