Do you think this is where Rasputin’s monolog came from?

[ADamUnRama]

I was online looking for the monolog from Rasputin in Seed of Destruction. The one the conjurs Hellboy, and this fricken poem came up. Just wondering. Does anyone know if that monolog is online? Or do I have to type it???????

Chained in heaven are they.
Seven is their number.
Bred in depths of ocean,
neither male or female are they.
They are as the howling wind,
which knoweth not mercy,
which knoweth not pity.

Heedless are they to pray and supplication.
They are the serpent.
They are the furious beast.
The windstorm.

Evil winds they are.
The evil breath that heraldeth the baneful storm.
They are mighty children.
Heralds of pestilence.
Throne bearers of Ereshigal.

They are the flood which rusheth through the land.
Seven gods of might.
Seven demons of oppression.
Seven in heaven and seven on Olympia.

Of giant strenght and tread are they.
Knowing no care they grind the land like corn.

Knowing no mercy they rage against mankind,
to spill blood like rain and devour flesh.

Let they seven now rise from the abyss.
Away be cast all chains.
Freedom is to them.
Power is to them.

Olympia tremble!

-The Crimson Eye [vg5]
http://www.pbm.com/oly/times/g2/064.html is the web addy


Signed, you're hero
--Adam Un Rama

[hellboyone]

I assume some guy wrote that (the website said something about player-contributed) so perhaps the guy who wrote that was inspired by Mignola (or Lovecraft) rather than the other way around? Your source seems like an RPG site of some sort, from 1998.

R.

[Mist the Soul-Gatherer]

HBOne is right. I went to the same site. The "rant" by a character named Crimson Eye is part of a computer generated role playing game called "Olympia" that apparently lasts for years and can have hundreds of players. It looks very wordy and not much action that isn't described in too many more words.
I agree that C-E put a lot of stuff together including probably some Mignola, & Lovecraft. Ereshigal (sp?) mentioned is the Hittite goddess of the Underworld, similar in some ways to Hecate. I've not been able to find any other trace of these verses outside of this site. Anybody got a clue? :(
H

[shonokin]

The band THE DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS (http://www.thickets.net/) had a song on their CTHULHU STRIKES BACK CD called "Ogdru Jahad" which is obviously inspired by Hellboy. It has some of Rasputin's lines in it as well. In fact it was that song back in '95 that made me aware of and got me into Hellboy in the first place.

ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...
ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...

They whispered of a prison
Ragnarok engine humming
Wrapped they in darkness dreaming
They are the mighty children
Behold the Doomsday project
Frog legions bear their vessel
Seven in Earth and Heaven

ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...
ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...

And underneath the desert
Encased in frozen bedrock
Stack sleeping agents waiting
To see the gates burn open
The desert rip asunder
They grind the land like corn
Bleed oily peals of thunder

Above the tortured heavens
So full of silent waiting
Howl screams of birth and triumph
Unlock the faceless hating
Bred in the depths of ocean
Of giant strength and tread
No hands defy their windstorm

ONCE... WE... WERE... FREE...

[ADamUnRama]

FRICKEN RPG'ers, always getting my hopes up. Did Mignola write the monolog? Or did Byrne???? eh? Eh? EH??? Maybe thats one of those questions that will never be answered, like Stone Henge, or 'Will Adam Un Rama ever shut up?'.


Your Hero
--Adam Un Rama