| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: were not the Great Old Ones. No man had ever seen the Old Ones.
The carven idol was great Cthulhu, but none might say whether
or not the others were precisely like him. No one could read the
old writing now, but things were told by word of mouth. The chanted
ritual was not the secret - that was never spoken aloud, only
whispered. The chant meant only this: "In his house at R'lyeh
dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
Only two of the prisoners were
found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to
various institutions. All denied a part in the ritual murders,
and averred that the killing had been done by Black Winged Ones
 Call of Cthulhu |
The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: While we were at Diou, waiting for these vessels, we received advice
from Aethiopia that the emperor, unwilling to expose the patriarch
to any hazard, thought Dagher, a port in the mouth of the Red Sea,
belonging to a prince dependent on the Abyssins, a place of the
greatest security to land at, having already written to that prince
to give him safe passage through his dominions. We met here with
new delays; the fleet that was to transport us did not appear, the
patriarch lost all patience, and his zeal so much affected the
commander at Diou, that he undertook to equip a vessel for us, and
pushed the work forward with the utmost diligence. At length, the
long-expected ships entered the port; we were overjoyed, we were
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