The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are
And the Old Ones shall be
From the dark stars they came ere man was born
Unseen and
loathsome they descended to primal earth
Beneath the oceans they brooded while ages past
Till seas gave up the land, whereupon
they swarmed forth in
Their multitudes and darkness ruled the earth
What man knoweth Kadath? Path of Alpha gleams at
us
Dho-hna delivered the formula
Zazas zazas Nasatanada
Ohodos scies Ia Fyaan. Ia o Tsatthoggua!
Their praises beneath
the peaks of ancient Throk
They have walked the Earth
And they have walked admidst the stars
Ever awaite the time of their
return; for the Earth has known
Them and shall know them in time yet to come..
When the stars will bear their row and the time
will be thou old
Black Tsatthoggua, toad and terror from the dark
Return from R?lyeh with your sons
Bokrug, Rhan-Tegoth and Ia
Fyaan
Zazas Zazas Nasatanada! Ia o Tsatthoggua!
Your step wilst quake this earth o bleed
Father of Nyar-Lathotep come forth
to feel and free
[written June 1997 by D. von Junzt]