I believe that long ago things now deemed "paranormal" or "supernatural" were simply a part of life. I believe that the Necronomicon is a history book, written with help from sources now ignored. I believe the Bible, the Torah, the Talmud, the Qur'an, the epic of Gilgamesh, the Dead Sea Scrolls, etc were also written in a similar way. But these books, because they are either part of a religion or were found by archaeologists, are taken seriously while the Necronomicon is not. It also helps that a popular fiction writer didn't adapt them. (If Oscar Wilde had rewritten the Book of Revelations, how many people would it intimidate now?)
One particular part of the article interested me:
It is abundantly clear that Alhazred elaborated upon existing traditions of the "Old Ones", and he did not invent these traditions. According to Alhazred, the Old Ones were beings from "beyond the spheres", presumably the spheres of the planets, and in the cosmography of that period this would imply the region of the fixed stars or beyond. They were superhuman and extrahuman. They mated with humans and begat monstrous offspring. They passed forbidden knowledge to humankind. They were forever seeking a channel into our plane of existence.
This is virtually identical to the Jewish tradition of the Nephilim (the giants of Genesis 6.2 - 6.5). The word literally means "the Fallen Ones" and is derived from the Hebrew verb root naphal, to fall. The story in Genesis is only a fragment of a larger tradition, another piece of which can be found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. According to this source, a group of angels sent to watch over the Earth saw the daughters of men and lusted after them. Unwilling to act individually, they swore an oath and bound themselves together, and two hundred of these "Watchers" descended to earth and took themselves wives. Their wives bore giant offspring. The giants turned against nature and began to "sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood". The fallen angels taught how to make weapons of war, and jewellery, and cosmetics, and enchantments, and astrology, and other secrets.
This sounds really familiar- has anyone else read Erich Von Danikan's "Chariots of the Gods"? It's a book full of evidence that in ancient history, human kind was visited, assisted, and educated by extraterestrials. And this guy isn't on crack, the book is very well written and his beliefs are supported by an amazing amount of facts (including ones from aforementioned religious and historical texts...) and stunning pictures. I recomend this book to anyone (in fact, my copy is being borrowed right now) but especially if you find this interesting and are willing to consider different theories instead of instantly dismissing them.
I would love to discuss all of this with anyone interested. I would not love to hear a page of replies that I am retarded and easily swayed by bullshit.
...point is to perhaps be a little more open minded?
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caught that a little later,thanks again