Dagon - H.P. Lovecraft

Dagon: 大袞是閃米特人的一個主要的神，司農業，由早期阿摩利人所崇拜。祂的形狀是一個披著魚皮的男人，是非利士人的眾神之首，被古代以色列人視為魔鬼。Chief God of the Philistines 聖經183 OLD TESTAMENT, 上半身是人, 下半身是魚Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth: the national god of the Philistines.
Origin: < Latin < Greek < Hebrew dāghōn

supercargo【商】貨物管理員

Never a competent navigator

mire泥沼; 污泥

undulations (水面等的)波動; 小浪

there was in the air and in the rotting soil a sinister quality which chilled me to the very core

The region was putrid腐敗的; 放出惡臭的with the carcasses of decaying fish

oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

under unfathomable深不可測的watery depths

As the day progressed

I was too much concerned with graver things to mind so slight an evil

I was awake in a cold perspiration

Such visions as I had experienced were too much for me to endure again

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

Through my terror ran curious reminiscences of Paradise Lost, and of Satan's hideous climb through the unfashioned realms of darkness.

Ledges and outcroppings of rock afforded fairly easy foot-holds for a descen

Urged on by an impulse which I cannot definitely analyse

Stygian冥河的; 地獄的; 陰沈的deeps

contour輪廓; 輪廓線and position were not altogether the work of Nature

A closer scrutiny filled me with sensations I cannot express

Dazed and frightened, yet not without a certain thrill of the scientist's or archaeologist's delight, I examined my surroundings more closely.
The moon, now near the zenith【天】天頂[the S]


inscriptions and crude sculptures

hold me spellbound

would have excited the envy of Doré (Paul Gustave Doré (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɡystav dɔʁe]; January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor.)

Of their faces and forms I dare not speak in detail; for the mere remembrance makes me grow faint.

Grotesque beyond the imagination of a Poe or a Bulwer(Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed",[1] "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", as well as the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".[2] He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction.)

they were damnably human in general outline despite webbed蜘蛛網狀的; 張有蜘蛛網的; 有蹼的 hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips, glassy, bulging eyes, and other features less pleasant to recall

Awestruck at this unexpected glimpse into a past

I heard peals of thunder and other tones which Nature utters only in her wildest moods.

enthnologist人種學者, 民族學者

I tried morphine; but the drug has given only transient surcease暫停; 停歇; 停止, 中止