Astronomy of Ice and Fire

[Fun Guy from Yuggoth]

Check this out, the two Wights that Jon and company brought back to castle Black were Jafer Flowers and Othor. 

Othor ~The Others

Jafer ~ gafr means "goat" and Flowers ~ fluir-- means "abundance" in Gaelic and the Whisperer in Darkness, the chant to praise the Black Goat is:

"Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!"

 

And to pass through the Wall you go through the Black Gate, and one of the old spelling of Goat is Gate.  To get to the Otherworld you pass through the Black Goat.

[Fun Guy from Yuggoth]

In several of Lovecraft's stories Yuggoth is extremely close to Earth.  In The Other Gods  it is so close to Earth that it eclipses the moon, and its gravitation pulls Barzai the Wise off the peak of a mountain and he is drawn up towards Yuggoth--which is called the Other God  and "the pit" and "the abyss" in the sky.  And the story ends with a huge mysterious glyph being carved into the top of the mountain.

And I was just looking up Yuggoth related words and found the source of all those plot points on page 628 of Pughe's Welsh

 

ysgethrdd  means "pinnacle, crag" and ysgythrog  means "fanged" (like a mountain)  --story is set on the mountain Hatheg-Kla  [also Yuggoth is often referred to as a moving mountain]

ysgynu means "to ascend" and ysgynydd means "to mount"  --Barzai climbed the mountain Hatheg-Kla

ysgyrchiant means "gravitation" and ysgynyll means "to uplift"  --and Yuggoth's gravitation uplifted him to Yuggoth

 

ysgwthr / ysgethredig  means "carved, cut out"  --Yuggoth carved a cyclopean glyph on the mountain peak

ysgythrul  means "lopped off" and "carved"  --the top of the mountain may have been lopped off, it is unclear

 

 

And those who lived in the area forever feared eclipses afterwards. 

[Fun Guy from Yuggoth]

At the end of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Danforth sees Yuggoth and goes insane.  The name "The Mountains of Madness" is just another name for Yuggoth, as "to see Yuggoth would drive any man insane" and Yuggoth is described as a moving mountain, and The Mountains of Madness are earlier described as being:

"like the serrated edge of a monstrous alien planet about to rise into unaccustomed heavens."

And the crinoids are a version the Fungi from Yuggoth.

 

 

Anyway, when Danforth describes what he saw. he says:

“the black pit”, “the carven rim”, “the proto-shoggoths”, “the windowless solids with five dimensions”, “the nameless cylinder”, “the elder pharos”, “Yog-Sothoth”, “the primal white jelly”, “the colour out of space”, “the wings”, “the eyes in darkness”, “the moon-ladder”, “the original, the eternal, the undying”,

 

Black pit, Yog-Sothoth, carven rim, are clear Yuggoth references.

As I said above callawr [~color] means "cauldron" so the Callawr Out of Space is Yuggoth.

 

the elder pharos is a Nefren-ka reference, and Nefren-ka is an avatar of Nyarlathotep which means "black stone" and in Welsh Nwyfreant  means "empyreal sphere" which means  "a sphere in space"--so Yuggoth

 

The Moon Ladder, I just found that lleidr / lader means "thief/robber"  --so an object that takes away the moon / eclipses the moon, so Moon Ladder is another name for Yuggoth.  Fenrir is the winged wolf that swallows the moon, and the sigil of the Corpse Eating Cult of Leng is Fenrir the Winged Wolf, and lleidr is on the same page as Lleng .

 

The Nameless Cylinder, the ysgud / ysgwyd  comes from the Latin/Greek scutum, and scut-- means "cylinder" as well as "shadow" and  "shield"  and Baphomet is "he who shall not be named"--so Yuggoth

 

The references to Shuggoths: the word Shuggoth is only one letter away from Yuggoth, and Yuggoth comes from the Welsh Ysgwth, so if you drop the "y" they are the same thing.  And sgeith means "star spawn" "gelatinous substance that falls from the sky in the form of a meteor" in Gaelic

 

ysguth means "a scud" -- a strong blast of wind  [Yuggoth and Shuggoth]

In Gaelic sidhe gaoith  [sounds like "shuggoth"] is a very strong blast of wind.  And the extreme blasts of wind feature prominently in At the Mountains of Madness, Color Out of Space, and Haunter of the Dark.  The sidhe gaoith always accompanies the Shuggoth.

[Fun Guy from Yuggoth]

What Lomas Longstrider saw above Asshai

In At the Mountains of Madness, Yuggoth is so close to the Earth that it appears to be gigantic mountain range on the horizon:

"like the serrated edge of a monstrous alien planet about to rise into unaccustomed heavens."

 

Compare that to the mountain range Lomas Longstrider saw by Asshai:

"The hills grow wilder and steeper, and soon enough the mountains appear in the far distance, their great peaks seeming to float against the eastern sky, blue-grey giants so huge and jagged and menacing that even Lomas Longstrider, that dauntless wanderer (if his tales be true), lost heart at the sight of them, believing that he had at last reached the ends of the earth."

 

A floating mountain range + Wanderer + Ends of the Earth

 

Lomas means "shaggy, hairy" and "the name of a sage" in Hindi 

strodaire [~Strider] means "prodigal, squandering, wandering, good-for-nothing" in Gaelic

and strodaire is right next to the word for Stranger:

stroinse / stroinsear  means the same things: "wanderer, stranger, good-for-nothing"

llong  means "ship" and "to swallow" in Welsh 

 

And the and the Mountains of Madness are the same as the monstrous Plateau of Leng / llong / lleng.  As Yuggoth is a ship that swallows the sun. 

And the Stranger is a wandering planet ship that is known as the Shaggy Goat. 

Lomas is a shaggy wanderer and he sees the shaggy Wanderer above Asshai, that is the Ends of the Earth, and it is not Earthly.

 

 

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I figured out why Aragorn was called "Strider" in Lord of the Rings.  (obviously he has long legs compared to a hobbit, and takes long strides)

strodaire [~Strider] means "prodigal, squandering, wandering, good-for-nothing"

and he was the heir to Gondor but was refusing to take up his mantel.  He is the prodigal son, wasting his inheritance. 

 

rangr means "wrong, awry, not straight, unrighteous"  --and the Hobbits did not trust him and thought him a good-for-nothing wanderer.