H.P. Podcraft.com.

It is only within the last few years that most people have stopped thinking of the West as a new land. I suppose the idea gained ground

because our own a special civilization happens to be new there. But nowadays

explorers are digging beneath the surface and bringing up whole chapters of life that rose and fell among these plains and mountains before recorded history began.

We think nothing of Weblebleau village 2,500 years old. And it hardly jolts us when archaeologists

put the sub-pedrigal culture of Mexico back to 17,000 or 18,000 BC. We hear rumors of still older things too, of primitive

man contemporaneous with extinct animals and known today only through a few fragmentary bones and artifacts

so that the idea of newness is fading out pretty rapidly. Europeans usually catch the sense of immemorial anxiousness and deep deposits from successive

life streams better than we do.

Only a couple of years ago a British author spoke of Arizona as a

moon dim region very lovely in its way and stark and old an ancient lonely land.

All right, well that's the opening line from Zilia Bishop and H.

Lofcrafts The Mound.

That a reader was Jimmy Aiken, a friend of the show who is actually sort of an expert on the

mound. He's an all-round fascinating guy and we'll put some links up to his site.

He's done some extensive studies and he provided us a link to photographs of locations.

And we've got those up there and they're pretty cool to look at so you can see you know what's being discussed.

Wait, what are we discussing this on, Chad? The H.Plovecraft literary podcast. Oh

at hppodcraft.com that's right and I'm Chad Fyfer did I say that? Yeah.

No you didn't say that. I'm I'm Chris Lanky and glad to be back. Yeah.

We have a couple of things to cover before we jump into the story here.

I just wanted to throw out there once again that we now got the soundtrack from the show volume 2 available.

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