The nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults.
[H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu]
R’lyeh is a fictional city that first appeared in the story “The Call of Cthulhu,” by H. P. Lovecraft. R’lyeh is also referred to in Lovecraft’s “The Mound” as Relex. R’lyeh is a sunken city located deep under the Pacific Ocean and is where the godlike being Cthulhu is buried.
R’lyeh is sometimes referred to in the ritualistic phrase
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
which roughly translates to “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”.
For sure H. P. Lovecraft fans are Josef Nadek and DMAH, the authors of this work published by suRRism-Phonoethics (but click here to download).