> these texts tell of how the earth was once possessed by chaotic beings who are said to have crossed the abyss from another universe at a time predating the appearance of man, and go on to relate how they were driven from their universe by the intervention of forces allied to the cause of order. this cosmic history, which details subsequent battles with other primitive life forms, shows an obvious parallel to what was described within the cthulhu mythos > in a letter dated march 25, 1933, lovecraft writes: > "only the other day my new orleans friend, e. hoffman price, discovered a vivid and colorful myth about the beginning of the earth's ages, the lost continents of kusha (atlantis) and shalmali (lemuria), and the peopling of the earth by older planets. there is talk of a secret book in some eastern shrine, parts of which are older than the earth... price assures me that the folklore is true and promises to send further details." > and in another letter, lovecraft reveals the identity of the secret book as "the book of dzyan," and identifies the eastern shrine as "shamballah." madame blavatsky died on may 8, 1891, of bright's diseasea condition from which lovecraft also suffered, and which contributed to his early death > michael barkun, professor of political science at syracuse university, posits that the idea of a reptilian conspiracy originated in the fiction of conan the barbarian creator robert e. howard, in his story "the shadow kingdom", published in weird tales in august 1929. this story drew on theosophical ideas of the "lost worlds" of atlantis and lemuria, particularly helena blavatsky's the secret doctrine written in 1888, with its reference to "'dragon-men' who once had a mighty civilization on a lemurian continent"
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