Tupsimati
The Tupsimati (the "Tablets of Destiny", "The Elder Keys") are from Sumerian mythology, and are detailed in Cthulhu Dark Ages.
Description
The Tupsimati - the Tablets of Destiny widely known from Mesopotamian myth - were said to be older than Earth, and of formidable power, belonging to the Babylonian Serpent "Tiamat" (probably Cthulhu), who stole them from the Elder Gods and used them to nearly destroy the gods until Tiamat was somehow slain by the champion of the Elder Gods at the creation of the Earth, and the tablets were retrieved from the corpse of the guardian entrusted by Tiamat to keep them, and hidden where the Tablets would not be found until The Stars are Right for Tiamat's revival. Two almost inaccessible copies are said to exist on Earth. It is rumored that the tablets constitute the single most important source for many later Mythos texts.
Original Version
- author:
- language: (unknown, possibly pre-human dead language)
- date: unknown (prehistoric)
- number of known copies (if rare): (two, possibly different "keys")
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (lost, somewhere on earth)
- study: 75 weeks
- sanity loss: major
- mythos lore: major
- occult lore: negligible
- suggested spells: Contact Nyarlathotep; Call/Dismiss spells for Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath, and Yog-Sothoth; Summon/Bind Byakhee, Summon/Bind Servitor of the Outer Gods; Dread Curse of Azathoth, Dust of Suleiman, Elder Sign, Powder of Ibn-Ghazi, Voorish Sign, Resurrection, Shrivelling, and/or others.
Physical Description: Strangely-formed clay tablets or "keys" inscribed in an unknown language.
General Content: Allegedly contains the source material for many later tomes.
Associated Mythos Elements
- tome: The "Simonomicon"
- deities: Tiamat (possibly Cthulhu), Kingu, Enlil
Appearances
- sourcebook: Cthulhu Dark Ages
