How it could have undergone its tremendously complex evolution on a new-born earth in time to leave prints in Archaean rocks was so far beyond conception as to make Lake whimsically recall the primal myths about Great Old Ones who filtered down from the stars and concocted earth-life as a joke or mistake; and the wild tales of cosmic hill things from Outside told by a folklorist colleague in Miskatonic's English department.
Misterioa zeharo argitu ezinezkoa zen eta Lakeri gogora etorri zitzaizkion Antzinakoak: hainbat mito primitiboren arabera, izarretatik behera limurtu eta, jolasean edo nahi gabe, Lurreko bizia sortu zuten; Miskatoniceko Ingeles Saileko kide folklorista batek kontatutako kondairetan, mendietan gordetzen ziren kanpo-espaziotik etorritako izaki kosmikoak ziren.