The Necronomicon Trivia Quiz

Answer: Abdul Alhazred

The Mad Arab, or Abdul Alhazred, is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia -- the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients -- and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it.

In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told.

Answer: Ibn Schacabao

The name "Schacabao" is not a proper Arabic name. It has thus been subjected to much the same speculation as "Alhazred". Possibilities include:

Ibn Shayk Abol, "Son of the Sheik Abol".
Ibn Mushacab, "Son of the Dweller" (shacab, "to sit, inhabit, dwell" plus mu-, personalizing element).
Some derivate of the Hebrew term shakhabh, "bestiality".

Answer: The book of the dead

"The Book of Dead Names" (i.e. ikon=book, necro=die or dead, and nom=name). Or, "The book of the law of the dead".

Answer: Marduk

Answer: The blood of Kingu

Answer: Inanna

Inanna is invoked in the NECRONOMICON and identified as the vanquisher of Death, for she descended into the Underworld and defeated her sister, the Goddess of the Abyss, Queen Ereshkigal (possibly another name for Tiamat). Interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the Christian concept of Christ's death and resurrection, among which the Crucifixion (Inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse), the three days in the Sumerian Hades, and the eventual Resurrection are outstanding examples of how Sumerian mythology previewed the Christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years - a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth.

Answer: Sin

NANNA was called the god of the moon by the Sumerians. By the later Sumerians and Assyrians, he was called SIN. In both cases, he was the Father of the Gods (of the planetary realm, the zonei), and was depicted as wearing horns, a symbol familiar to the Witches as representative of their God.

The horn shaped crown is illustrative of the crescent phases of the Moon, and were symbolic of divinity in many cultures around the world, and were also thought to represent certain animals who were horned, and worshipped for their particular qualities, such as the goat and bull.

They also represent sexual power.

Answer: Pazuzu

PAZUZU was a prime example of the type of Devil of which the Sumerians were particularly aware, and which they depicted constantly in their carvings and statues. The purpose of this iconography was to ward off the spiritual - and psychic - circumstances which would precipitate a plague, or some other evil.

Answer: Shammash

Answer: False

Marduk slays Tiamat.