R. von Pnaklendorf
Chymist
Hello everyone. I'm a writer of the Cthulhu Mythos, in Spanish, and many of my tales are heavily influenced by Ligotti — even my earliest stories and short dissociative musings. I constantly dream of a dark womb with streets full of hookers (I don’t have sex with them; they’re friends, I just talk to them) and strange people: clowns, mannequins, shadows. I call this place “Country of Pnaklendorf", and I also use the concept I’ve named “Uterus Mundi.” All of this is rooted in my birth trauma.
My mother was dying when I came into this world, even though I was born by C-section. When I was taken out, the doctors pushed me aside as if I were no more than a used condom and focused on my mother, who was on the verge of death. Psychologists say this affected me because “I was not welcomed into this world.” Maybe that’s why, even today, I’m afraid of people — though it’s a rational fear. The monsters in my dreams aren’t real; human beings are, and they always seem eager to cause harm. Perhaps I didn’t want to be born, and maybe that’s why the C-section was complicated and nearly killed my mother.
Curiously, I’ve seen artists who experience the same kinds of dreams and concepts, such as H.R. Giger, with whom I identify the most.
Here is the article from the Spanish Lovecraft Wiki — which I’ve administered and edited since 2014 — about the goddess/place known as Pnaklendorf and the Uterus Mundi:
https://hplovecraft.fandom.com/es/wiki/Pnaklendorf
And here is a brief description of an essay I wrote about Pnaklendorf, all of this within the fiction of the Cthulhu Mythos:
Pnaklendorf responds to the original theosophical grounding that Clark Ashton Smith had in mind for Ubbo-Sathla, except that Pnaklendorf represents its passive/feminine aspect. It embodies the geological zeitgeist, though it can also be understood as the Earth itself—this being a valid perspective, since it connects with a facet of the Magna Mater common to certain cults, an example of which is the Phrygian worship of Cybele.
On a pantheon level, Pnaklendorf is a female Great Old One encompassing everything mentioned above. As such, it is formless, but keep in mind what I mean when I say it is the embodiment of the Earth itself.
On the level of place, Pnaklendorf is a country within the Dreamlands: the Land of Pnaklendorf. It is known that the Dreamlands, within Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothothery, are related to the center of the Earth and what lies beneath it. For that reason, the Country of Pnaklendorf is a concept introduced by various esoteric schools over the years. Some call it Agartha, others Shamballah, and it is known that some people claim there are gateways to these subterranean realms in the world.
In fiction, Lovecraft does something similar with K’n-yan, presented in the story “The Mound.” As expected in the Venusian cult, the Land of Pnaklendorf lies “to the west of Dylath-Leen and beyond the River Skai, in the womb of Mount Lerion.”
There are several reasons why the Country of Pnaklendorf is located within a womb, both personal and narrative. One of them is precisely that it embodies the role of a goddess and Mater Terrae: within her, everything that is and will be is gestated. Then there are the personal motives, connected to my recurring dreams about that country—some lucid, others not. Of course, all of this is from a oneiric perspective: it is not mysticism or anything esoteric; dreams are simply dreams.
In my fiction, Pnaklendorf plays important roles in stories such as the legend of “The Heralds of Penance,” a cult that worships her with a “more carnal” interpretation; but without a doubt, where her nature is most clearly exemplified at the “Mythos” level is in “The Machine Beneath Our Feet.”
Then there are Yuke Kabula’s stories, such as “The Soul of the Machine,” which explore the goddess’s “alien” nature.
Pnaklendorf is the name given by the Dreamers—common characters in Mythos fiction; others refer to her merely as Magna Mater, as is the case with certain cults and the Heralds of Penance. They also do not refer to the Country of Pnaklendorf by that name but instead opt for names of esoteric subterranean realms such as Agartha, Shamballah, K’n-yan, etc.
All of this is closely related to the memetic inoculation one undergoes when reading the Liber Veneris, written by the poet Reccaredus Anatolius Magnus.
https://pnaklendorf.com/
My mother was dying when I came into this world, even though I was born by C-section. When I was taken out, the doctors pushed me aside as if I were no more than a used condom and focused on my mother, who was on the verge of death. Psychologists say this affected me because “I was not welcomed into this world.” Maybe that’s why, even today, I’m afraid of people — though it’s a rational fear. The monsters in my dreams aren’t real; human beings are, and they always seem eager to cause harm. Perhaps I didn’t want to be born, and maybe that’s why the C-section was complicated and nearly killed my mother.
Curiously, I’ve seen artists who experience the same kinds of dreams and concepts, such as H.R. Giger, with whom I identify the most.
Here is the article from the Spanish Lovecraft Wiki — which I’ve administered and edited since 2014 — about the goddess/place known as Pnaklendorf and the Uterus Mundi:
https://hplovecraft.fandom.com/es/wiki/Pnaklendorf
And here is a brief description of an essay I wrote about Pnaklendorf, all of this within the fiction of the Cthulhu Mythos:
Pnaklendorf responds to the original theosophical grounding that Clark Ashton Smith had in mind for Ubbo-Sathla, except that Pnaklendorf represents its passive/feminine aspect. It embodies the geological zeitgeist, though it can also be understood as the Earth itself—this being a valid perspective, since it connects with a facet of the Magna Mater common to certain cults, an example of which is the Phrygian worship of Cybele.
On a pantheon level, Pnaklendorf is a female Great Old One encompassing everything mentioned above. As such, it is formless, but keep in mind what I mean when I say it is the embodiment of the Earth itself.
On the level of place, Pnaklendorf is a country within the Dreamlands: the Land of Pnaklendorf. It is known that the Dreamlands, within Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothothery, are related to the center of the Earth and what lies beneath it. For that reason, the Country of Pnaklendorf is a concept introduced by various esoteric schools over the years. Some call it Agartha, others Shamballah, and it is known that some people claim there are gateways to these subterranean realms in the world.
In fiction, Lovecraft does something similar with K’n-yan, presented in the story “The Mound.” As expected in the Venusian cult, the Land of Pnaklendorf lies “to the west of Dylath-Leen and beyond the River Skai, in the womb of Mount Lerion.”
There are several reasons why the Country of Pnaklendorf is located within a womb, both personal and narrative. One of them is precisely that it embodies the role of a goddess and Mater Terrae: within her, everything that is and will be is gestated. Then there are the personal motives, connected to my recurring dreams about that country—some lucid, others not. Of course, all of this is from a oneiric perspective: it is not mysticism or anything esoteric; dreams are simply dreams.
In my fiction, Pnaklendorf plays important roles in stories such as the legend of “The Heralds of Penance,” a cult that worships her with a “more carnal” interpretation; but without a doubt, where her nature is most clearly exemplified at the “Mythos” level is in “The Machine Beneath Our Feet.”
Then there are Yuke Kabula’s stories, such as “The Soul of the Machine,” which explore the goddess’s “alien” nature.
Pnaklendorf is the name given by the Dreamers—common characters in Mythos fiction; others refer to her merely as Magna Mater, as is the case with certain cults and the Heralds of Penance. They also do not refer to the Country of Pnaklendorf by that name but instead opt for names of esoteric subterranean realms such as Agartha, Shamballah, K’n-yan, etc.
All of this is closely related to the memetic inoculation one undergoes when reading the Liber Veneris, written by the poet Reccaredus Anatolius Magnus.
https://pnaklendorf.com/
