A time before hominins, before 3.3 Mya, a time of primordial things… protean beasts, sulfuric crawlers, night gaunts, evil gods; where the creatures of the Mythos originated, followed by the dinosaurs.
| Era The Prehuman Epoch (Before 3.3 MYA) |
| Alternative Names The Black Gulfs of Time, The Cyclopean Past, The Palaeogean World, Precambrian Supereon, Hadean Eon, Archean Eon, Proterozoic Eon, Pre-Ragnarok |
| Total Entries 132 |
| Articles Geologic time scale – Wikipedia Mythos Lore – H. P. Lovecraft Wiki Cultural depictions of dinosaurs – Wikipedia |
| Description A time before hominins, before 3.3 Mya, a time of primordial things… protean beasts, sulfuric crawlers, night gaunts, evil gods; where the creatures of the Mythos originated, followed by the dinosaurs.
In five days more, the Arkham and Miskatonic, with all hands and equipment on board, were shaking clear of the thickening field ice and working up Ross Sea, with the mocking mountains of Victoria Land looming westward against a troubled Antarctic sky and twisting the wind’s wails into a wide-ranged musical piping which chilled my soul to the quick. Less than a fortnight later we left the last hint of polar land behind us and thanked heaven that we were clear of a haunted, accursed realm where life and death, space and time, have made black and blasphemous alliances in the unknown epochs since matter first writhed and swam on the planet’s scarce-cooled crust. ~ At the Mountains of Madness – Standard eBooks
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