This obscenely thick portfolio constitutes a wealth of bizzare minutia regarding various obscure and enigmatic Roman tribal deities. Its authors were mostly graduate students at various universities banding together to write one mammoth paper, the doctoral thesis to trump all others. 

Within, there are notes on many strange beings, but those of most interest to Mythos scholars would be these:

• Summanus Terriblus, a particularily nasty aspect of the ominous god of nocturnal storms. This being is sometimes known as Fortus Hermii Trimagestii, or, interestingly "the Strength of Thoth" Wink.

• Iachuillanagh, an enigmatic Gaelic deity worshipped as a god of the senses, of decadence and of sinful pleasures, trapped behind a wall. Whether this wall was metaphorical or physical was debated, although the advocates of the latter seemed to be far more fanatical.

• Goeticus, or the Howling One in appearance is rather familiar...

• A death god, worshipped only in parts of Umbria and Tuscany is referenced, called the mortician of all things. His name is written by the Etruscans as Kunadaglu, or Cynothoglys.

• An eastern deity revered by Roman soldiers is discussed, a feared Semitic deity whose provenance was sidereal and whose domain was the sea. Yes, Cathuluus.

• A few more entities are mentioned in passing: A Brittanic memory god known as Byatis, a peculiar race called the lloigor by the Welsh, the Cambrian monstrous troglodyte demi-god Eichorthis, the petrifying Chatanathoeus, the strange Bactrian dream god Asturis, and the strange, half-referenced being from an officer in Germania, known only by a rough transliteration of its native name: Ciaega.

The descriptions and photos of the weird monuments and idols, one or two in colour, are the real kicker, though.


Book Stats

Cecil Akeley Morris, Daniel Gothenburg, Rowena Fenstanton, Rollo Beardsley, and Elwood Price, an edited edited version published by Clearwater Publishing, 2nd edition, 1975
Anthropological reference text in manuscript form

Various articles and notes with a trestise on the arcane titular subject

A large portfolio, to be found in the archives of the New York Public Library

Study Time: Very thick; a good 2D8 weeks to skim, 3D8+1D2 to absorb it entirely.
SAN Loss: Skimming, 0/1; Inspecting notes and photos, 1/1D3; to compete thorough search, 1D2/1D4.
C.M.: +5