{"id":5410,"date":"2012-08-12T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T02:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2012-08-12T05:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T02:50:41","slug":"iram-the-lost-city-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/12\/iram-the-lost-city-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Iram, the lost city in the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Uncharted Ruins blog has a long and interesting article on <a href=\"http:\/\/unchartedruins.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/08\/irem-of-thousand-columns.html\">the lost desert city of Iram<\/a>, relevant to Lovecraft&#8217;s &#8220;The Nameless City&#8221; (1921) and &#8220;The Call of Cthulhu&#8221; (1926)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to [&#8230;] some currents of Islamic Sufism, Irem existed in this world as well as on separate levels of existence&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/loulan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LouLan\" width=\"473\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 1902 <em>Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/em> entry on &#8220;Arabia&#8221; also mentions this tradition&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Very gorgeous are the descriptions given of &#8216;Irem&#8217;, the &#8216;city of pillars&#8217;, as the Koran styles it [which] after the annihilation of its tenants, remains entire, so Arabs say, invisible to ordinary eyes, but occasionally, and at rare intervals, revealed to some heaven-favoured traveler.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mention in &#8220;Cthulhu&#8221; is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Of the [Cthulhu] cult, he said that he thought the centre lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where Irem, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched.&#8221; &mdash; The Call of Cthulhu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Uncharted Ruins blog has a long and interesting article on the lost desert city of Iram, relevant to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/12\/iram-the-lost-city-in-the-desert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}