Gnophkeh
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On this occasion he spoke of the perils to be faced, and exhorted the men of Olathoë, bravest of the Lomarians, to sustain the traditions of their ancestors, who when forced to move southward from Zobna before the advance of the great ice-sheet..., valiantly and victoriously swept aside the hairy, long-armed, cannibal Gnophkehs that stood in their way....
- H.P.Lovecraft, "Polaris"
The papyrus reputedly preserved the darkest secrets of the occult wisdom of the detested Gnophkehs, which name denoted the repulsively hirsute cannibals whom Yhemog's ancestors had driven into exile in the arctic barrens....
— Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith, "The Scroll of Morloc"
The Gnophkehs are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are hairy cannibals who once lived in the land of Lomar before it was invaded by people from Zobna. Gnoph-keh (note the hyphen) refers to a fictional species of non-humans that once dwelt in Hyperborea (present-day Greenland).The Gnophkehs resemble and may be the same as the voormis.
References
- Laurence J Cornford - A Hyperborean Glossary
- Daniel Harms - The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (1998)
