Lovecraft, H P - The Doom That Came To Sarnath

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The Doom That Came to Sarnath

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 3 Dec 1919

Published June 1920 in The Scot, No. 44, p. 90-8.

There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and out of which no

stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore the mighty city of Sarnath,

but Sarnath stands there no more.

It is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, before ever the men of

Sarnath came to the land of Mnar, another city stood beside the lake; the gray stone city

of Ib, which was old as the lake itself, and peopled with beings not pleasing to behold.

Very odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world yet inchoate

and rudely fashioned. It is written on the brick cylinders of Kadatheron that the beings of

lb were in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging

eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice. It is also written that

they descended one night from the moon in a mist; they and the vast still lake and gray

stone city lb. However this may be, it is certain that they worshipped a sea-green stone

idol chiseled in the likeness of Bokrug, the great water-lizard; before which they danced

horribly when the moon was gibbous. And it is written in the papyrus of Ilarnek, that they

one day discovered fire, and thereafter kindled flames on many ceremonial occasions.

But not much is written of these beings, because they lived in very ancient times, and

man is young, and knows but little of the very ancient living things.

After many eons men came to the land of Mnar, dark shepherd folk with their fleecy

flocks, who built Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron on the winding river Ai. And certain

tribes, more hardy than the rest, pushed on to the border of the lake and built Sarnath at a

spot where precious metals were found in the earth.

Not far from the gray city of lb did the wandering tribes lay the first stones of Sarnath,

and at the beings of lb they marveled greatly. But with their marveling was mixed hate,

for they thought it not meet that beings of such aspect should walk about the world of

men at dusk. Nor did they like the strange sculptures upon the gray monoliths of Ib, for

why those sculptures lingered so late in the world, even until the coming men, none can

tell; unless it was because the land of Mnar is very still, and remote from most other

lands, both of waking and of dream.

As the men of Sarnath beheld more of the beings of lb their hate grew, and it was not less

because they found the beings weak, and soft as jelly to the touch of stones and arrows.

So one day the young warriors, the slingers and the spearmen and the bowmen, marched

against lb and slew all the inhabitants thereof, pushing the queer bodies into the lake with

long spears, because they did not wish to touch them. And because they did not like the

gray sculptured monoliths of lb they cast these also into the lake; wondering from the

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