Difference between revisions of "R'lyeh, Pacific Ocean"
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− | R'lyeh is the sunken city in which dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. | + | R'lyeh is the sunken city in which dead Cthulhu waits dreaming, located at "S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude 126°43'" according to ''[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu/Chapter_III The Call of Cthulhu]'': |
+ | :''Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen's command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude 126°43', come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror—the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, that was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.'' | ||
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R'lyeh is the sunken city in which dead Cthulhu waits dreaming, located at "S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude 126°43'" according to The Call of Cthulhu:
- Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen's command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9', W. Longitude 126°43', come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth's supreme terror—the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, that was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.