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 ===Do-Hna===
-[[Do-Hna]] is a K'n-yanian valley of some notable population, notable largely for its grotesque farms and factories, operated by the hideous [[Gyaa-yothn]] and other slave classes, and raising herds of monstrous "inferior meat stock" descended from biologically engineered humanoid beings.  Do-Hna also contains a scattering of isolated dwellings in small villages centered around bridges across a nameless subterranean river, and monstrous temples built in decadent imitation of those found in the shadowy depths of [[Yoth]], [[Vaults of Zin|Zin]], and [[N'kai]].
+[[Do-Hna]] is a K'n-yanian valley of some notable population, notable largely for its grotesque farms and factories, operated by the hideous [[Gyaa-yothn]] and other slave classes, and raising herds of monstrous "inferior meat stock" descended from biologically engineered humanoid beings.  Do-Hna also contains a scattering of isolated dwellings in small villages centered around bridges across a nameless subterranean river, and monstrous temples built in decadent imitation of those found in the shadowy depths of [[Yoth]], [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]], and [[N'kai]].
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 "...This was a squat, plain temple of
-black basalt blocks without a single carving, and containing only a vacant onyx pedestal. The remarkable thing about it was its story, for it was a link with a fabled elder world compared to which even cryptic [[Yoth]] was a thing of yesterday. It had been built in imitation of certain temples depicted in the [[Vaults of Zin]], to house a very terrible black toad-idol found in the red-litten world and called [[Tsathoggua]] in the Yothic manuscripts. It had been a potent and widely worshipped god, and after its adoption the people of K'n-yan had lent its name to the city which was later to become dominant in that region. Yothic legend said that it had come from a mysterious inner realm beneath the red-litten world - a [[N'kai|black realm]] of peculiar-sensed beings which had no light at all, but which had had great civilisations and mighty gods before ever the reptilian quadrupeds of [[Yoth] had come into being. Many images of [[Tsathoggua]] existed in Yoth, all of which were alleged to have come from the black inner realm, and which were supposed by Yothic archaeologists to represent the aeon-extinct race of that realm.... The Cult of Tsathoggua flourished until it almost rivalled the ancient cults of [[Yig]] and [[Cthulhu|Tulu]].... When the [[People of K'n-yan|men of K'n-yan]] went down into [[N'kai]]'s black abyss with their great atom-power searchlights they found living things - living things that oozed along stone channels and worshipped onyx and basalt images of [[Tsathoggua]]. But they were not toads like Tsathoggua himself. Far worse — they were [[Shoggoth|amorphous lumps of viscous black slime]] that took temporary shapes for various purposes. The explorers of K'n-yan did not pause for detailed observations, and those who escaped alive sealed the passage leading from red-litten Yoth down into the gulfs of nether horror...."
+black basalt blocks without a single carving, and containing only a vacant onyx pedestal. The remarkable thing about it was its story, for it was a link with a fabled elder world compared to which even cryptic [[Yoth]] was a thing of yesterday. It had been built in imitation of certain temples depicted in the [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]], to house a very terrible black toad-idol found in the red-litten world and called [[Tsathoggua]] in the Yothic manuscripts. It had been a potent and widely worshipped god, and after its adoption the people of K'n-yan had lent its name to the city which was later to become dominant in that region. Yothic legend said that it had come from a mysterious inner realm beneath the red-litten world - a [[N'kai|black realm]] of peculiar-sensed beings which had no light at all, but which had had great civilisations and mighty gods before ever the reptilian quadrupeds of [[Yoth] had come into being. Many images of [[Tsathoggua]] existed in Yoth, all of which were alleged to have come from the black inner realm, and which were supposed by Yothic archaeologists to represent the aeon-extinct race of that realm.... The Cult of Tsathoggua flourished until it almost rivalled the ancient cults of [[Yig]] and [[Cthulhu|Tulu]].... When the [[People of K'n-yan|men of K'n-yan]] went down into [[N'kai]]'s black abyss with their great atom-power searchlights they found living things - living things that oozed along stone channels and worshipped onyx and basalt images of [[Tsathoggua]]. But they were not toads like Tsathoggua himself. Far worse — they were [[Shoggoth|amorphous lumps of viscous black slime]] that took temporary shapes for various purposes. The explorers of K'n-yan did not pause for detailed observations, and those who escaped alive sealed the passage leading from red-litten Yoth down into the gulfs of nether horror...."
 <br>&mdash; [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
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 ===Yoth, N'kai, and the Vaults of Zin===
-Beneath blue-litten K'n-yan lay red-litten [[Yoth]], a rough, savage country inhabited in an elder age by the [[Serpent People]], and conquered by the [[People of K'n-yan]].  Just under Yoth lay the [[Vaults of Zin]], and somewhere further below Yoth is the legendary horror-filled lightless abyss of [[N'kai]], the passages to that monstrous hell of inner Earth sealed away and forgotten millions of years ago by retreating explorers from K'n-yan upon encountering the [[Shoggoth]]s rolling and splashing hideously in that black and cursed gulf.
+Beneath blue-litten K'n-yan lay red-litten [[Yoth]], a rough, savage country inhabited in an elder age by the [[Serpent People]], and conquered by the [[People of K'n-yan]].  Just under Yoth lay the [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]], and somewhere further below Yoth is the legendary horror-filled lightless abyss of [[N'kai]], the passages to that monstrous hell of inner Earth sealed away and forgotten millions of years ago by retreating explorers from K'n-yan upon encountering the [[Shoggoth]]s rolling and splashing hideously in that black and cursed gulf.
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 ** [[Mount Voormithadreth]], a mountain range in K'n-yan
 ** [[Yoth]], a red-litten world below K'n-yan
-** [[Vaults of Zin]], a vast crypt beneath the largest city of Yoth
+** [[Underworld#Vaults_of_Zin|Vaults of Zin]], a vast crypt beneath the largest city of Yoth
 ** [[N'kai]], a lightless gulf below Yoth
 ** [[Tsath]], A great, tall city beyond the mountains

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 * [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Hazel Heald]] - "[[Out of the Aeons (fiction)]]"
-[[Category:Mythos:Locations]][[Category:Mythos:Location:HollowEarth]]
+[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]
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 * "Old! Old! Old!  Great God, they are older than the earth, and came here from somewhere else - they know what you think, and make you know what they think - they're half-man, halfghost - crossed the line - melt and take shape again - getting more and more so, yet we're all descended from them in the beginning - children of Tulu - everything made of gold - monstrous animals, halfhuman - dead slaves - madness - Iä! Shub-Niggurath! - that white man - oh, my God, What they did to him!"&mdash; [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
 * "The blue light! - the blue light! Always down there, before there were any living things - older than the dinosaurs - always the same, only weaker - never death - brooding and brooding and brooding - the same people, half-man and half-gas - the dead that walk and work - oh, those beasts, those halfhuman unicorns - houses and cities of gold - old, old, old, older than time - came down from the stars - Great Tulu - Azathoth - Nyarlathotep - waiting, waiting..." &mdash; [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
-* "For god's sake, never go near that mound - it is part of some kind of a world so devilish and old it cannot be spoken of. Walker and I went and were taken into the thing - we were just melted at times and made up again.  The whole world outside is helpless compared to what They can do - They that live forever, young as they like, and you cant tell if they are really men or just ghosts, and what They do cannot be spoken of.  And this is
+* "For god's sake, never go near that mound - it is part of some kind of a world so devilish and old it cannot be spoken of. Walker and I went and were taken into the thing - we were just melted at times and made up again.  The whole world outside is helpless compared to what They can do - They that live forever, young as they like, and you cant tell if they are really men or just ghosts, and what They do cannot be spoken of.  And this is only one entrance - you cannot imagine how big the whole thing is ! After what I saw, I dont want to live any more - France was nothing compared to this.  See that people always keep away, oh God, they would, if they see poor walker like he was in the end...." &mdash; [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
 * "Leave the People alone, white man. They are no good, those people. All under here, all under there, the old ones, many devils under the ground. Yig, big father of snakes, is down there, and Tiráwa, big father of men. They never grow old, they never die, their substance is like air - part man, part spirit, and they just live and wait. Very ancient people make very powerful spirits; those of us not so old have spirits that are not so great, but when people are older than all time, their spirits are so great that they are very near flesh, and the ancients and their spirits mingle and become indistinguishable. One time long ago, in the most ancient days, they stopped hiding and came out here, to live and fight in the air, and they made villages on the earth, and built the mound, and brought up some of their gold with them. They went off and made new lodges across the Earth, and you and I are descended from them. Then the big waters came, and everything changed: nobody come out of the mound, and nobody was let back in, and those that get in, never get out.  If you leave the Old Ones alone, you will avoid bad medicine - red man knows this, and red man is left alone. If white man meddles with the old ones, he won't come back. Keep away from the mounds, they are no good.  Go away and let the Old Ones alone." &mdash; Grey Eagle, Wichita Chief

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-'''K'n-yan''' (or '''Xinaián''') is a fictional, subterranean land in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The underground realm was first described in detail in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s revision of Zealia Bishop's "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" (1940), in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador [[Zamacona]]. Lovecraft also mentions K'n-yan in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" ([[1930]]) and in his revision of Hazel Heald's "[[Out of the Aeons]]" (1935). The [[People of K'n-yan]] are sometimes referred to as the "[[Old Ones]]", a term of variable meaning in Lovecraft's fiction.
+'''K'n-yan''' (or '''Xinaián''', '''Blue-litten K'n-yan''') is a fictional, subterranean land in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The underground realm was first described in detail in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s revision of Zealia Bishop's "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" (1940), in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador [[Zamacona]]. Lovecraft also mentions K'n-yan in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" ([[1930]]) and in his revision of Hazel Heald's "[[Out of the Aeons]]" (1935). The [[People of K'n-yan]] are sometimes referred to as the "[[Old Ones]]", a term of variable meaning in Lovecraft's fiction.
 ==Summary==
-K'n-yan is a blue-litten cavern beneath Oklahoma. It is inhabited by [[People of K'n-yan|a human-like race]] that are sometimes said to resemble the Native Americans of the area, though they are actually extraterrestrials who arrived in prehistoric times. They are immortal and have powerful psionic abilities, including telepathy and the ability to dematerialize at will. They are also technologically advanced, using machines that employ principles of atomic energy, though they have largely abandoned their mechanized culture finding it unfulfilling.
+K'n-yan is a vast blue-litten cavern beneath Oklahoma. It is inhabited by [[People of K'n-yan|a human-like race]] that are sometimes said to resemble the Native Americans of the area, though they are actually extraterrestrials who arrived in prehistoric times. They are immortal and have powerful psionic abilities, including telepathy and the ability to dematerialize at will. They are also technologically advanced, using machines that employ principles of atomic energy, though they have largely abandoned their mechanized culture finding it unfulfilling.
-The most populous city is Tsath, the capital of K'n-yan. It is named for [[Tsathoggua]], a deity once worshiped there, but later deprecated after the inhabitants found out the true nature of the god. Other deities include [[Shub-Niggurath]], [[Nug and Yeb]], [[Ghatanothoa]], and the ''Not-to-Be-Named One'' ([[Hastur]]?). The two most important ones, however, are Tulu ([[Cthulhu]]) and [[Yig]]. The denizens of K'n-yan often place idols of these deities in near proximity, as in the following passage from "The Mound": "<nowiki>[In]</nowiki> a pair of vast niches, one on each side, <nowiki>[the]</nowiki> monstrous, nitre-encrusted images of Yig and Tulu squatted, glaring at each other across the passage as they had glared since the earliest youth of the human world."
+The most populous city is Tsath, effectively the capital of K'n-yan. It is named for [[Tsathoggua]], a deity once worshiped there, but later deprecated after the inhabitants found out the true nature of the god. Other deities include [[Shub-Niggurath]], [[Nug and Yeb]], [[Ghatanothoa]], and the ''Not-to-Be-Named One'' ([[Hastur]]?). The two most important ones, however, are Tulu ([[Cthulhu]]) and [[Yig]]. The denizens of K'n-yan often place idols of these deities in near proximity, as in the following passage from "The Mound": "<nowiki>[In]</nowiki> a pair of vast niches, one on each side, <nowiki>[the]</nowiki> monstrous, nitre-encrusted images of Yig and Tulu squatted, glaring at each other across the passage as they had glared since the earliest youth of the human world."
 In ancient times, the people of K'n-yan traded with the humans of the surface world. But when geological calamities caused the continents of [[Atlantis]] and [[Lemuria]] to sink into the ocean, the [[People of K'n-yan]] sequestered themselves below ground, thereafter having no further dealings with the outer world.

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−	'''K'n-yan''' (or '''Xinaián''') is a fictional, subterranean land in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The underground realm was first described in detail in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s revision of Zealia Bishop's "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" (1940), in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador [[Zamacona]]. Lovecraft also mentions K'n-yan in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" ([[1930]]) and in his revision of Hazel Heald's "[[Out of the Aeons]]" (1935). The ~~people~~ of K'n-yan are sometimes referred to as the "[[Old Ones]]", a term of variable meaning in Lovecraft's fiction.	+	'''K'n-yan''' (or '''Xinaián''') is a fictional, subterranean land in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The underground realm was first described in detail in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s revision of Zealia Bishop's "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" (1940), in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador [[Zamacona]]. Lovecraft also mentions K'n-yan in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" ([[1930]]) and in his revision of Hazel Heald's "[[Out of the Aeons]]" (1935). The [[People of K'n-yan]] are sometimes referred to as the "[[Old Ones]]", a term of variable meaning in Lovecraft's fiction.

	==Summary==		==Summary==

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 In addition to the bizarre basalt and gold spires, the city consists of vast blocks of basalt apartment buildings, subterranean tunnels (formerly the equivalent of subway tunnels) now used for foot traffic and supplies, buildings formerly used as factories and stores now operated by the monstrous [[Gyaa-yothn]], and amphitheater-temples used mainly for reawakening the People from their ennui through the practice of monstrous rites, orgies, spectator sport, and other activities to nameless and horrible to describe.
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 A black, basalt temple once dedicated to a decadent worship of [[Tsathoggua]], abandoned after the monstrous discovery that the Tsathogua's cult in [[N'kai]] was actually preserved by the ghastly [[Shoggoth]]s of that lightless inner world, with the beastly idols melted down and the cult outlawed.
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 ===Yoth, N'Kai, and the Vaults of Zin===
 Beneath blue-litten K'n-yan lay red-litten [[Yoth]], a rough, savage country inhabited in an elder age by the [[Serpent People]], and conquered by the [[People of K'n-yan]].  Just under Yoth lay the [[Vaults of Zin]], and somewhere further below Yoth is the legendary horror-filled lightless abyss of [[N'kai]], the passages to that monstrous hell of inner Earth sealed away and forgotten millions of years ago by retreating explorers from K'n-yan upon encountering the [[Shoggoth]]s rolling and splashing hideously in that black and cursed gulf.

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 * races:
 ** [[People of K'n-yan]]
-** [[Star-Spawn of Cthulhu|Children Tulu]]
+** [[Star-Spawn of Cthulhu|Children of Tulu]], apparently a relative of or identical with the dominant race of K'n-yan
 ** [[Lemurian]], no doubt an early ancestor of the K'n-yanian race, as introduced to Earth by [[Cthulhu|Tulu]]
 ** [[Gyaa-yothn]], biologically-engineered, Unicorn-like horrors