Necronomicon

The Necronomicon or Al-Azif was a book or books known on Earth as a resource of arcane knowledge. The fictionalised Necronomicon of H. P. Lovecraft may have achieved greater recognition.

History
Conflicting information exists, indicating either a complicated history or that there were in fact two books referred to as the Necronomicon.

The Eocene Necronomicon
The Necronomicon was written originally in Eocene, a language which was still at least partially understood by some Humans in the early 20th century. It had, however, been written in fragmentary form or become that way by this time. Original illustrations accompanying the book were done by a man named Roerich, although their form actually matched that of identical stone carvings present on Earth, Veltroch, Exo Three, and many other planets. These illustrations depicted the Great Old Ones, which the text refers to as the Great Ones, walling their bodies into stone citadels.

(NA: White Darkness)

The Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred
Al-Azif was written in Arabic around AD 730 in Damascus by Abdul Alhazred. Theodorus Philetus translated it into Greek in AD 950 but all copies were burned in AD 1050. Olaus Wormius translated it into Latin and from this, another Greek translation was made. Pope Gregory IX suppressed both editions. The Necronomicon was later translated into Spanish. This was believed to be in the year AD 1600 from the original Arabic.

(EDA: The Banquo Legacy)

Lovecraft's Necronomicon

 * all sources of information on this were affected in differing degrees by Celestis technology

According to the Doctor, the 20th century author H. P. Lovecraft wrote about the Necronomicon in his stories. By Compassion's time (the 26th century?), he estimated there were no less than seventy-nine different fake Necronomicons in print due to Lovecraft's writings.

Compassion, while acutely affected by a Fictional Generator which drew her into its narrative, authoritatively claimed that gothic writers often included excerpts of the Necronomicon in their novels, with little understanding of their context. This wrecklessness helped paint alien races like the Elder Things as monsters. (EDA: The Taking of Planet 5)

Collections that held the Necronomicon

 * The book was suppressed by the Catholic Church (EDA: The Banquo Legacy) and would come to be present in the collection of the Library of St John the Beheaded by the end of the year 1999. (MA: Millennial Rites)

Behind the scenes
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