Author's Note: Based on Out of the Aeons, written in 1935 with Hazel Head.
The Cabot Museum has contained many oddities
In 1932 a pair garnered a peculiar interest
A mummified body and tattered scroll
And a fearful eldritch history with these
The mummy fits with an old story
Sailors discovered a mysterious island
On it a stone crypt so grand
From it they retrieved a scroll and body
Both made their way across the world
Before ending up in this small display
Forgotten as but a novelty in a case
Until the history was revealed
Out of the Aeons
Clues cryptic and indecipherable
Out of the Aeons
Ghatanothoa, hideous and terrible
The Black Book provides the answer
Great Old One dwelling under a sunken land
The realm of Mu, under the cliff of Yaddith-Gho
Restless in the crypts, ready to bring forth woe
An amorphous entity, a vertibile Medusa
Trapped forever as a mummified husk
Eternally aware, every dawn and dusk
Sight of the god seals your fate
Out of the Aeons
Clues cryptic and indecipherable
Out of the Aeons
Ghatanothoa, hideous and terrible
Held at bay by a sacrifice of twenty-four
Opposed by the priest of Shub-Niggurath
A single man against the cult's wrath
To end the death forevermore
Carrying a scroll of protection
The priest readied to slay the god
But his foes made a second scroll, a fraud
And so the priest went to his demise
Could this story be really be true?
A dreadful fate of which only the ancients knew?
A guard claims to have seen the body shift one night
Proof of the myth, or simply bad eyesight?
It seems that Ghatanothoa's curse is real
The mummy's eyes are open and staring ahead
Over the two intruders, shocked and lying dead
And in its eyes the abomination lies reflected
Out of the Aeons
Clues cryptic and indecipherable
Deciphered
Out of the Aeons
Ghatanothoa, hideous and terrible
Then came the examination of the mummy
Slowly it disintegrated under the doctor's hands
But when he cut open the petrified body
Out came blood and brought into view
A living brain
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