From tyagi@bjt.net Tue Nov 19 09:12:11 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from kudonet.com ([165.227.52.1]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05248 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 07:16:35 -0500 Received: by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id DAA27032; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 03:07:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 03:07:15 -0800 Message-Id: <199611191107.DAA27032@kudonet.com> To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Subject: Necronomicon/9611.mesoktl.a From: nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) Reply-To: nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) Status: O >Path: kudonet.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!news1.best.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.ibl.bm!usenet >From: Arbiter >Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu >Subject: Re: About the descendents of Alhazred >Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:11:20 +0000 >Organization: Internet (Bermuda) Limited >Lines: 40 >Message-ID: <328AC618.5B0F@ibl.bm> >References: <32709661.747F@columbia-center.org> <327110CD.3936@voicenet.com> <54tcfq$2knu$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <3277C669.62@fri.cri.nz> <55br12$2rlq$2@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <569bka$4a2@n >NNTP-Posting-Host: dial14-60.ibl.bm >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Sue Thing wrote: > > Didn't the Chaosium people have something about Mesoamerican parallels in the > Cthulhu Mythos? I seem to recall it from one of the adventures. > > Sue > > ------------------------------------------ > Sue Thing plburton@mail.goodnet.com > > Those who do not learn from history > are doomed to repeat it next semester. > ------------------------------------------ Yes, they did. The clearest connections drawn were not in any scenario however, but in "scholarly articles" written up by "learned professors", (all of whom seemed to have died horribly soon after the article was written). You can find these scattered across old editions of the scenario books, and in some issues of the now-defunct White Dwarf magazine. The one scenario that I can remember had some Mesoamerican features was part of the Black Brotherhood series, (evil corporation led by reincarnated pharaoh plans to take over the world, aided by a mysterious white mouse), but in that one the Old One concerned was Yig, and there was no real attempt to make him anything other than the serpent god that he is. Cheers! -- ***** Everybody's playing the game, But nobody's rules are the same. Nobody's on nobody's side . . . *****