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You'll find the link in the description and now to our story time. chapter 6 it would be cumbrous to give a detailed consecutive account of our wanderings inside that cavernous peons dead honeycomb Primal masonry that monster Slayer of Elders Secrets, which now a code for the first time after uncounted epics to the trend of human feet. This is especially true because so much of the horrible drama and Revelation came from a mere study of the omnipresent mural carvings are flashlight photographs of those carvings will do much toward proving the truth of what we are now disclosing and it is lamentable. We had not a larger Film Supply with us. As it was we made crude notebook sketches certain Salient features after all of our films are used up the building which we had entered was one of great size elaborateness it gave us an impressive notion of the architecture of that nameless geologic past. The inner partitions were less massive than the outer walls, but on the lower levels or excellently preserve Labyrinthian complexity involving curiously irregular differences in floor levels characterize the entire Arrangement and we should certainly have been lost at the very outset. But for the trail of torn paper left behind us. We decided to explore the more decrepit upper Parts. First of all, hence climbed Aloft in the maze for a distance of some 100 feet to where the topmost here of Chambers. Yawns lle and ruinously opened the polar sky Ascent was affected over the Steep transversely Redstone ramps or inclined planes, which everywhere served in lieu of stairs the rooms. We encountered were all imaginable shapes and proportions ranging from five-pointed Stars two triangles and perfect cubes. It might be safe to say that their General average was about 30 by 30 feet and floor area and 20 feet in height though many larger environments existed after thoroughly examining the upper regions in the glacial level. We descended Story by story Into the submerged part where indeed we soon saw we were in a continuous Maze of connecting Chambers and passages probably leading over. Added areas of science particular building the cyclopean massiveness and gigantism of everything about us became curiously oppressive and there was something vaguely but deeply unhuman in all the Contours Dimensions proportions decorations and constructional nuances of the blasphemously archaic stonework. He soon realized I'm on the carvings revealed that this monstrous city was many million years old. We cannot yet explain the engineering principles used the anomalous balancing and adjustment the vast Rock masses though. The function of the arch was clearly much relied on the rooms. We visited were wholly bare of all portable contents a circumstance which sustained our belief in the city's deliberate desertion. The prime decorative feature was the almost Universal system of Your whole sculpture which tended to run in continuous horizontal bands 3 feet wide and arranged from floor to ceiling in alternation with bands of equal women given a learn to geometrical arabesques. There were exceptions to this rule Arrangement, but it's pom Durance was overwhelming. Often however a series of smooth cartouches containing oddly pattern groups of dots would be sunk long one of the Arabesque fans. This technique we soon saw was mature accomplished and aesthetically evolved to the highest degree of civilized Mastery the utterly alien and every detail any known our tradition of the human race. Delicacy of execution no sculpture. I have ever seen good approach this the minutest details elaborate vegetation or of animal life were rendered with astonishing vividness. Despite the Bold scale of the carvings whilst the conventional designs were marbles of skillful intricacy the are best display a profound use of mathematical principles and were made up of obscure. symmetrical curves and angles based on the quantity of 5 the pictorial bands followed a highly formalized tradition and involved A peculiar treatment of perspective, but they had an artistic force that moved us profoundly notwithstanding the intervening goal of vast geologic periods. Their method of design the hinged on a singular juxtaposition of the cross section where the two dimensional silhouette and embodied and analytical psychology beyond that of any known race of antiquity. It is useless to try to compare this art with any represented in our museums. Those who see our photographs will probably find its closest analog in certain grotesque conceptions of the most daring futurists. The Arabesque and tracery consisted altogether up to press lines who stepped on unweathered walls varied from one to two inches when cartouches with Doc groups appeared evidently as inscriptions in some unknown and primordial language and alphabet. The depression of the smooth surface was perhaps an inch and a half and of the dots perhaps an inch more victorial bands were in counter sunk low relief their background being depressed about 2 inches from the original wall surface in some specimens marks of a former coloration could be detected though for the most part The Untold eons had disintegrated and vanished. Any pigments which may have been applied? The more one study The Marvelous technique the more want admired that things beneath their strict conventional ization one could grasp the mining tune accurate observation and Graphics kill of the artists and indeed the very conventions themselves served symbolize and accentuate the real essence or vital differentiation of every object delineated. We felt to that besides these recognizable excellences. There are others lurking beyond the reach of our perceptions. Certain touches here and there gave a Ginza blatant symbols and stimuli which another mental and emotional background and a fuller or different Century equipment might of made a profound important significance to us. The subject matter of the sculptures obviously came from the life of the vanished Epoch of their creation and contain the large proportion of evident history. It is this abnormal historic mindedness of the Primal race a chance circumstance operating through coincidence miraculously in our favor which made the carvings. So awesomely informative to us and which caused us to place their photography and transcription above all other considerations. In certain rooms the dominant Arrangement was buried by the presence of maps astronomical charts and other scientific designs on an in large scale these things giving a naive and terrible collaboration. It's what we gathered in the pictorial phrases and Dittos. Hinting at what the whole revealed I can only hope that my account will not arouse our curiosity greater than saying caution on the part of those who believe me at all. It would be tragic if any were to be a lord to that realm of death and Horror by the berry warning meant to discourage them. Interrupting, these sculpture walls were high Windows have massive 12-foot doorways Loop now and then retaining the Petrified wooden planks elaborately carved and Polished of the actual shutters and doors all metal fixings and long ago banished some of the doors remained in place that before stood aside as we progress from room to room. window panes with Paula transparent pains, mostly elliptical survived here and there but would know that considerable quantity are also frequent vicious of great magnitude generally empty once in a while containing some bizarre object car from greens some Stone which was either broken or perhaps he'll to inferior to Warrant to remove Other apertures were undoubtedly connected with bygone mechanical facilities heating lighting and alike of A Sort suggested in many of the carvings. Ceilings tended to be playing but it's sometimes been inlaid with green soap stone or other tiles. Mostly fall in now. Pores are also paved with such tiles though planes don't work predominated. As I have said all furniture another movables were absent. The sculpture is gave a clear idea of the strange devices which had once filled these tomb-like echoing rooms. Above the glacial sheet, the floors were generally thick with Beatrice litter and debris, but farther down this condition decreased and some of the lower Chambers and corridors there was little more than gritty dust or ancient and Crustaceans will occasional areas had an uncanny are of newly swept Immaculate - of course, we're rips. Absence had occurred lower levels were at littered as the upper ones essential Court as in other structures. We had seen from the air saved the inner regions from total darkness so that we seldom and to use our electric torches me upper rooms except when studying sculpture details below the icecap. However, the Twilight deepened and in many parts of the The Tangled ground level there was an approach to Absolute Blackness to form even a rudimentary idea of our thoughts and feelings as we penetrated this t on silent Maze of unhuman masonry. We must correlate a hopelessly bewildering chaos. So fugitive methods moods memories and impressions. Shearer appalling Antiquity and lethal desolation of the place where enough to overwhelm almost any sensitive person but added to these elements were the recent unplanned over at the camp and the revelations All Too Soon affected by the terrible mural sculptures around us the moment We Came Upon a perfect section of carving where no ambiguity of interpretation could exist. It took only a brief study to give us the Hideous truth the truth, which it would be naive to claim Danforth and I had not independently suspected before that. We had carefully refrained from even hinting into one another there could now be no further merciful doubt about the nature of the beings which had built and inhabited this monstrous dead City millions of years ago. One's ancestors were primitive archaic mammals and vast dinosaurs roam the tropical steps of Europe and Asia. We had previously clung to a desperate alternative and insisted each to himself that the omnipresence of the five-pointed motif mentally some cultural or religious exaltation of the archaean natural object, which had so patently embodied the quality of five pointedness as the decorative motifs of minoan Crete exalting the sacred bull those of Egypt the scare. They us those of Rome the wolf and the eagle and those are various Savage tribes some chosen totem animal but this loan Refuge was now stripped from us and we were forced to face. Definitely the reason shaking realization, which the reader of these Pages has doubtless long ago anticipated. I can scarcely bear to write it down in black and white even now but perhaps that will not be necessary. Things once rearing and dwelling in this frightful masonry in the age of dinosaurs or not indeed dinosaurs, but far worse. We are dinosaurs were new and almost brainless objects, but the Builders of the city were wise and old and left certain traces and rocks even laid down well-nigh a thousand million years rocks laid down before the true life of Earth. Advanced Beyond plastic groups of cells rocks laid down before the true life of Earth had existed at all. They were the makers and enslavers of that life and above all doubt The Originals of the fiendish Elder myths which things like the Potomac manuscripts the Necronomicon affrightedly into bout. They were the Great old ones but had filtered down from the Stars when Earth was young the beings who substance of alien Evolution had shaped and whose Powers were such At this point I had never bread and I think but only the day before 10 forth, and I actually looked upon fragments of their Millennial e fossilized substance and that poor leg and his party had seen their complete Alliance. It is of course impossible for me to relate in proper order the stages by which we picked up. We now know that monstrous chapter of pre-human life after the first shock of this certain revelation. We had to pause a while to recuperate and it was fully three o'clock before we got started on our actual tumor of systematic research the sculptures in the building we entered or Relatively late date, perhaps two million years ago that's checked up by geological biological and astronomical features and embodied an art which will be called decadent and comparison without of specimens. We found in older buildings after Crossing Bridges under the glacial sheet one of this human from the solid rock seemed to go back 40 or possibly. Even 50 million years to the lower eocene for upper Cretaceous and contained structures of an Artistry surpassing anything else with one tremendous exemption that we encountered that was we have sense of greed the oldest domestic structure. We traversed Were it not for the support of those flashlights soon to be made public? I would refrain from telling what I found and inferred lest. I be confined as a man man, of course be infinitely early parts of the patchwork tail representing the preacher Estrella life of the star at it beings on other planets and in galaxies and other universes can readily be interpreted as the fan. Aztec mythology of those beings themselves yet. Such Parts sometimes involve designs and diagrams. So one can only close to the latest findings of mathematics and astrophysics, but I scarcely know what to think let others judge when they see the photographs I shall publish. Naturally, no one set of carvings which we encountered told more than a fraction of any connected story nor did we even begin to come upon the various stages of that story in their proper order? Some of the best rooms are independent units so far as their designs were concerned whilst in other cases, they continuous Chronicle would be carried through a series of rooms and corridors the best of the maps and diagrams were on the walls of frightful Abyss below. Even the ancient ground level the Govern perhaps 200 feet square and 60 feet high. Which had most undoubtedly but an educational center of some sort there were many provoking repetitions of the same material in different rooms and buildings since certain chapters of experience and certain summaries of phrases of racial history had evidently been favorites the different dwellers or decorators. Sometimes though variant versions of the same theme proved useful and settling A double points and filling in gaps. I still wonder that we did do so much in the short time in our disposal. Of course, we even now have only the barest outline and much of that was obtained later on from a study of the photographs and sketches. We made it may be the effect of this later study the revived memories and vague Impressions acting in conjunction. Option with his General sensitiveness and with that final supposed horror Glimpse whose Essence he will not reveal even to me which has been the immediate source of danforth's present breakdown, but it had to be for we could not issue our morning intelligently without the fullest possible information and the issuance of that morning as a prime necessity. Certain lingering influences and that unknown Antarctic world of disordered time an alien natural law. They get imperative that further exploration be discouraged. And that my darling as all for today's story time. I hope that you are able to rest well and that you have very sweet and creepy dreams as always. Good night, my darling.
ASMR Reading You To Sleep: Soft spoken ASMR with thunderstorm in background. At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1931. The tale was originally rejected by the magazine Weird Tales for publication, but was eventually published in 1936 when an editor picked up Lovecraft’s tale for Astounding Stories. The story takes place during September 1930 where a group of wary explorers find themselves in disastrous conditions during an expedition in Antarctica. Told from the perspective of Dr. William Dyer, the tale is reflective of Lovecraft’s fascination with the Antarctic continent and his unfulfilled desire for exploration. A special thank you to Kyle, @PostCubicleKyle on Twitter for recommending this story as our next Lovecraft read. Now sit back, close your eyes, and relax as I read HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness to you. 