OCEANUS

OCEANUS

"Sometimes I stand upon the shore 

Where ocean vaults their effuence pour, 

And troubled waters sigh and shriek 

Of secrets that they dare not speak."

H.P. Lovecraft, Cycle Of Verse: Oceanus

"Look you upon my daughter, mark how fair She is bedight as Cerce. I shall act 

The green Oceanus."

H.P. Lovecraft, Alfredo; A Tragedy

"Okeanos was depicted in ancient Greek vase painting as a bull-horned god with the tail of a serpentine fish in place of legs, similar to his river-god sons."

"In mosaic art he therefore appears simply as a sea-god or the sea personified, with crab-claw horns, and for attributes, a serpent and an oar."

Aaron J. Atsma, The Theoi Project: Greek Mythology

CLAWING FIEND

CLAWING FIEND

"Ghastly shades of bygone gladness, 
Clawing fiends of future sadness."

H.P. Lovecraft, Cycle Of Verse

GENII

 GENIUS

"Of late I climb'd a lonely height
And Wat'd the moon-streak'd clouds in flight,
Whose forms fantastic reel'd and whirl'd
Liked Genii of a spectral world."

H.P. Lovecraft, A Cycle Of Verse: Clouds

 

"The name of a group of spirits in the classical Roman, Etruscan, and Assyrian mythologies. They are essentially guardian spirits of the individual beings and phenomena that have been created. A Genius (Genii, plural) was assigned to each individual at birth. The Genius of each man (women were protected by Juno) controlled his character and destiny, eventually conducting his soul out of the mortal world. They were variously depicted as naked winged youths, while the Genius of a family in Pompeii was protrayed as a snake."

Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns and Goblins