What, in substance, both the Esquimau wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this-the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: The second part of the phrase does appear in the story, but isolated from "Cthulhu fhtagn" Note that while close, the words "Iä! Iä!" are not used here or anywhere else in the story. He talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion making me see with terrible vividness the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone-whose geometry, he oddly said, was all wrong-and hear with frightened expectancy the ceaseless, half-mental calling from underground: “ Cthulhu fhtagn”, “ Cthulhu fhtagn”. I figured that this phrase came from The Call of Cthulhu, but a quick search of the text shows that the phrase doesn't appear exactly that way: There is even an Urban Dictionary definition that mentions this exact quote. For instance, the board game Arkham Horror has the text on the Cultist monster. This phrase reappears in a lot of derivative Cthulhu works. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Sometimes a longer version of the phrase comes up as well (untranslated in his stories*): Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (whether or not they've actually read the stories or not): There is a phrase that is pretty commonly known to fans of H.P.
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