Kathulos

Overview

Filed under register ME-1922-X48/5586; cite `kathulos` in all outbound correspondence.

We catalogue Kathulos because silence failed: too many unrelated witnesses described the same wrong geometry after the same sleepless week.

Plant or cephalopod entity from Robert E. Howard's 'The Fire of Asshurbanipal'.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.

Description

Sometimes folded into mythos as a buried god of the desert.

Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.

Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.

Historical Record

Howard's voice differs from Lovecraft; tag author in citations.

Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.

Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.

Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `kathulos` in all cross-references. Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.