Aklo

AKLO. Language of the Valusian serpent-men. It is still used in a modified form by the priests of the Great Old Ones (to whom it was given by their masters), as well as the Little People of Welsh legend. The term "Aklo" may also be used to refer to a series of magical rituals (see below), or a specific time at which an incantation should be performed. E. A. Hitchcock's book Remarks upon Alchemy makes reference to "the now unattainable secrets of the AKLO tablets", a set of writings which has never been discovered. However, Alonzo Typer, an occultist of some note, might have read these "Aklo writings" or others, as he described rituals known as the Aklo formulae in his diary. The third of these formula e is useful in making the unseen visible, but the proper use of the rest remains a mystery. [One occultist has suggested to me that Aklo bears many similarities to Enochian, the pre-human language John Dee supposedly discovered through contact with angels and used by occult groups until the present. Though most passages usually considered to be Aklo have little resemblance to Enochian, the link does bring up some interesting possibilities. (See especially "Aklo Sabaoth" and "Aklo Unveilings".)] See Aklo Sabaoth; Aklo Unveilings; la; Kuen-Yuin; Remnants of Lost Empires. (Letter (9/23/94), AzOth; The Necronomicon, Culp; Keeper's Compendium, Herber; "Aliah Warden", Johnson; "The Haunter of the Dark", Lovecraft; "The Diary of Alonzo Typer", Lovecraft and Lumley; "The White People", Machen (O); "Plant y Daear", Ross; "The Return of the Lloigor", Wilson.)

AKLO SABAOTH (or AKLO FOR THE SABAOTH)

Formula in the Aklo Language used to invoke extradimensional beings. The Aklo Sabaoth may only be performed on clear nights when the moon is in its first phase. It is only effective for those spirits that are "answerable from the hill"; there may be another version which will invoke those of the air. Some have linked the Aklo Sabaoth with John Dee's incantations known as the "Enochian Keys", as the nineteenth Key summons the angels of the "Aires". Thus, the version that calls the spirits of the hill might be an inferior variant of the original Aklo Sabaoth. It should also be noticed that "Sabaoth" is the Hebrew word for "Hosts", a term usually used for angels. All of this is speculation, and experimenters are advised to be cautious. See Aklo. (Letter (9/23/94), AzOth; "The Tower on Yuggoth", Campbell; "The Dunwich Horror", Lovecraft (O).)