As he travels down the slope on the edge of the pit, he sees a gigantic piece of stone that was clearly not the work of Nature. Once reaching the summit of the mound the protagonist looks down into a pit or canyon. After drifting for days, his boat ends up on a slimy, rotting expanse of “hellish black mire.” After a few days brooding on the boat, he leaves and travels over the exposed plain to set out for a mound in the distance.Ī view of the mound on the exposed plain in Dagon (illustration by Mark Foster) In the story Dagon the protagonist escaped a German sea-raider and found himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean. In the Call of Cthulhu, when R’lyeh rises from the Pacific Ocean, it is hypothesized that the structure that broke the water’s surface was “only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great Cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters.” If this is true, then R’lyeh itself may be an incredibly huge City populated by millions of slumbering Spawn of Cthulhu and the section that broke the water’s surface may be only a small tip of the entire necropolis.
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