Jiu Yu (March 9, 2009) As far as we know, although there are many older related works, among the books written in human language, the book of death is the one most closely related to the scope and profound meaning of the Cthulhu myth.

This evil book contains the hymn of Yog-Sothoth, the powder of Ibn Katz and the seal of Viri, which can open the way to the mythical world.

There is no doubt that there are more spells and worship ceremonies, which Lovecraft did not mention; At the same time, this book also talks about thousands of places and objects.

At the end of Lovecraft's Crazy Mountains, poor Danvers vaguely mentioned a small part of it.

The book of death is all-encompassing and confusing at the same time.

In this book, the definition is vague and the tone of interpretation is fluctuating; All the conclusions sound like expectations, and it is difficult to distinguish between the modification of the text and the modification of the ontology.

Its words are reserved, just like in a dream.

As far as the scope and information contained in the book of death are concerned, people have studied a lot, and scholars regard this book as the Rosetta stone in dark magic.

However, it is best never to let investigators get their own copies, but to tease and seduce them with this book forever.

The book of death should not be used as a data card to provide information, nor should it be used as a railway dispatching station to lead investigators from one story line to another.

The book of death is too powerful and terrible; For those who study it, the book of death should be a door to madness. Anyone who walks through this door will change his appearance, lose his original appearance, and finally even himself will become a mysterious part.

It is such a door.

History "Kitab al-Al Azif"-The Book of Death was written in Damascus by Arab Abdul al-Alha, that is, Abd al-Slad around 730 AD.

The magician-an astronomer, poet, philosopher and scientist-was born in Sana 'a, Yemen around 700 AD.

Before writing this masterpiece, he spent several years visiting the ruins of Babylon and the underground caves in Memphis, and also spent some time in the desert in southern Arabia. According to the biography written by Ebn Khallikan, a writer in the12nd century, Alha Sadr died in Damascus in 738.

He was devoured alive by an invisible monster in broad daylight.

In the past, Azif's manuscript has been secretly circulated among philosophers and scientists. It was not until 950 AD that this work was translated into Greek by the Byzantine Diodor Ruth Philetas and named the Book of the Dead.

Freitas's translation has been copied a lot and spread widely. This blasphemous book continuously expanded its influence, which eventually led to the patriarch Michael of Constantinople declaring it illegal and banning it in 1050.

Many manuscripts were confiscated and destroyed, and their owners were severely punished.

1228, Olaus womius translated the Greek version of the book of the dead into Latin.

It was during this period that the original Arabic version of The Book of the Dead was considered completely lost.

This Latin translation spread rapidly among philosophers at that time, which led to the Greek version and Latin version of The Book of the Dead being listed on the banned list of the Holy See by Pope Gregory IX and banned again.

Oros did not rename the Greek version of the book of the dead, and since then, the book has usually appeared under this name.

1454, the first movable type printed book in Europe came out; At the end of this century, the Latin version of The Book of the Dead printed in Gothic letters was published in Germany (probably Mainz), without indicating the time and place of printing.

/kloc-at the beginning of the 6th century, about 15 10, the Greek translation of the book of death was published in Italy, and there was no specific publishing information.

It is generally believed that this edition of The Book of the Dead was written by Aldous Manutius, the founder of Ahldin Publishing House, which is famous for printing unedited original books in Greek and Latin.

1586, Dr. john dee, a famous British mathematician and astrologer and Queen Elizabeth's personal doctor, translated the English version of The Book of Death, but the translation was never published.

It is believed that he got the Greek version of the Book of Death during his trip to Eastern Europe, and this translation was translated from this book.

Its translation is faithful and accurate, but incomplete: Dee selectively deleted some parts of the translation.

/kloc-In the first half of the 7th century, Spain printed and published the Latin translation of The Book of Death for the second time. As in the past, the identity of the publisher is unknown.

However, its rough font is easy to distinguish from the previous German version with better quality; In addition, this version is completely faithful to the version printed in Germany.

Other versions also have many other versions or incomplete books of the dead.

Sussex manuscript, also known as Cultus Maleficarum, is an English version translated from Latin by Baron Frederick.

This translation was printed and published in Sussex, England on 1597. The incomplete and chaotic Al-Azif-Ye Booke of Ye Arabia is another translation of The Book of the Dead, which was written in English dialect at the beginning of16th century and has been circulated as a manuscript.

In addition, there are 1 16 pages of medieval Voynich manuscripts, which were written in Arabic letters but in Greek and Latin, and were later collected by the University of Pennsylvania.

For a long time, some scholars have been studying the Latin translation of the Book of the Dead, such as Laban Shiru Yuri and Joachim Ferry. Some translated fragments can be found in their published books.

Existing copies were banned and burned by the church. As far as we know, only five books of the Book of Death have survived to this day.

However, there may be an unknown number of copies still kept in some places as private collections; Libraries or some private collectors often subscribe to copies that appear in the market, but most of the time it is only because they are rare in the world, or because of their blasphemous nature and bad reputation.

As a result, the purchase of this collection has led to the soaring price of these replicas, which is often beyond the reach of any fanatical occult researcher.

Few people are lucky enough to get their own copy of this evil and powerful work; Because these copies are old and easily damaged, a few public institutions with such collections will not allow ordinary people to read them at will.

It is known that the five existing books on the dead are all Latin translations, of which four were secretly printed in Spain in the17th century, and the fifth was the only surviving German version in the16th century, with good printing quality.

The four books printed in Spain are now kept in the French National Library in Paris, the Scattoni University Library in Akam, the Whitener Library of Harvard University and the Buenos Aires University Library.

The only German replica belongs to the British Museum in London.

Although it is generally believed that the last Greek version of The Book of the Dead was burned in the chaos of the witch trial in Salem, Massachusetts (1692), rumors about other Greek versions still occasionally appear in the public eye.

It has recently been rumored that Richard Upton Pickermann, a painter in new york, has a copy; Even if the rumor is true, this book apparently disappeared with the artist on 1926.

Occasionally, people will find Dee's handwritten English versions, but most of them are badly damaged and incomplete.

Scattoni University recently discovered one of them; The discovery of this manuscript enabled them to piece together Sandy's Book of the Dead and the enviable collection into an almost complete translation.

Sussex manuscripts, which are not so rare, can obviously be found in the collections of Scattoni University and other large libraries.

At present, it is generally believed that no Arabic manuscript has survived to this day; But there are still rumors that such a manuscript once appeared in San Francisco, just before the catastrophic earthquake and fire in 1906.

In addition, those rumors that Arabic manuscripts are also one of the collections of the British Museum have just been falsified.

As far as the appearance of the known books is concerned, the printed Book of the Dead is folio.

Latin translation printed in Spain and Germany, with the size of 18× 10.5 inch, ***802 pages, including charts.

According to records, the Greek translation may be slightly more than a few pages.

The Latin version is printed in Gothic letters, with many illustrations of woodcarving prints; This book, like all books at that time, was bound by readers, and its binding style reflected the original owner's taste and appreciation tendency (until the middle of19th century, books printed by publishers were basically unbound and wrapped in paper).

The book of death in the British Museum, the leather cover of15th century, is still relatively complete.

This book was printed in Germany, and it is well preserved as a whole, but unfortunately, seven pages have been lost-carefully cut and taken away.

This book belongs to three libraries left by Sir hans sloane to the British people. It is these heritages that enabled Britain to establish the British Museum in 1753.

The situation in the National Library of France is much worse.

The cover of this book is bound with cheap cardboard that was common in that period, and now it is on the verge of destruction.

The condition of the inner pages is also very bad: many pages have been torn, some pages have been completely lost, and others have been stained by some stains identified as blood, making them completely unreadable.

The origin of this book is still wrapped in layers of fog:181kloc-0/year, a furtive person who looks like a foreigner left the book at the front desk. The next day, the mysterious donor's body was found poisoned and died in an apartment full of rats.

The collection of the University of Buenos Aires is said to have been acquired somewhere in South America in the late17th century and is well preserved.

It is unique in that this book is written with strange marginal notes in some unknown hieroglyphs.

The Whitener Library of Harvard University also has a book on the dead in poor condition.

Its cover is still original, but it has been seriously damaged and cracked.

This book is complete, but some pages have been scattered, while others are on the verge of scattered.

Its restoration is in progress.

This book is one of the books of American millionaire Harry Elkins Widner. It is said that he got it shortly before 19 12 boarded the Titanic.

The collection of Scattoni University was bought by Dr. Armitage from the private collection of Providence businessman whipple Phillips in the late19th century-he was just a young scholar who had just been hired by the university.

This book was re-bound at the beginning of the18th century, and the cover was goatskin made of Soviet tanning materials. There is a wrong title "Qanoon-e-Islam" written in hot stamping on the cover.

There are no pages missing in this book, and the text is in good condition.