the Pacific
seaReal-world: Pacific Ocean
The ocean on whose islands, according to what the deathless Chinamen told old Castro, remains of the Great Old Ones were still to be found as Cyclopean stones; it was also in one of its most open and least frequented parts that the narrator of Dagon was captured by a German sea-raider at the outset of the war.
The Pacific enters the cult's lore through Castro's confession: remains of the Things that once ruled the earth, the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific.
The claim was part of what Castro said he had learned from the undying leaders of the cult, and it points the whole legend seaward — toward the stone survivals of the Great Old Ones.
In the tale of Dagon, it was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the Pacific that the narrator's packet, on which he served as super-cargo, was captured by a German sea-raider — an event set at the very beginning of the great war, before the enemy navy had reached its later degree of ruthlessness.
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“Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
“It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the Pacific that the packet of which I was super-cargo fell a victim to the German sea-raider.”
Dagon (1919)