| Interview with Diabolus Erysichthon, Harbinger of the Six Stringed Holocaust and Genocide (aka: Paul) from TERATISM - Conducted by phone, June, 2002 Knox: I am here with Lord... Ornias? Diabolus : Actually, I'm Diabolus Erysichthon. Knox: Oh, ok, well hold on a minute. Dia - DE: Diabolus Erysichthon. Knox: Eristic - Ok, I was wondering how to say that. Diabolus ERistic - sco - scon. Uh, from Teratism. And you guys are from, uh, what state, exactly? DE: We're, uh, from Minnesota. Knox: Minnesota. I see. Ok. Um... I just got a couple, uh, questions for you. I'm sure you are used to the normal barrage of questions, uh, pertaining to about when you started and, and who your influences are and that type of thing. DE: Oh yeah. Knox: Uh, I'd like to get into the, the more interesting stuff - DE: Okay. Knox: - if possible. DE: Yeah, go right ahead? Knox: Um... are you guys practicing Satanists? DE: ... Uh... yeah. I would say yes. Knox: Can you explai - Is it LaVeyan Satanism, or - DE: Well... um... LaVey was more or less a catalyst for me. Uh, I'm 28 years old. And when I read, uh, the Satanic Bible, I was roughly at about maybe, you know, 14. And that was just kind of a catalyst. I got into Chaos Magic and other realms of knowledge, you know, whether philosophy or what have you. So I'd say yes. I kinda hold true to some of Laveyist ideals, but uh... I kinda expanded on them, you know? I mean, that's like, I figure a true satanist, is ... You find your own way, you know? We call ourselves Satanists because there's dogma to our rituals, but - Knox: So you do practice actual rist- ritual? Cuz I noticed that alot of LaVey's, um, philosophy is, uh, almost Nietzchean, it's, it's nihilistic, but then he also goes into things such as ritual and magic and, and that type of thing. DE: Well, right. That's where the dogma comes from, and that's where you get, like, the standard of way of doing things, and how you conduct your philosophical belief and make them into the spiritual, you know what I mean? Knox: Right. Um... Do you think that, uh, LaVey had any part in writing the um, the Necronomicon? DE: Uh, no. Knox: And - you don't think he had any part with that? DE: No, I don't think so, cuz uh, the, you know, the Necronomicon was supposedly written from the perspective of the Mad Abdul Alhazred. The Mad Abdul Alhazred was a character that HP Lovecraft created when he was 8 years old. So, as far as like that actual work, or an actual book of the dead, the Necronomicon was more of a farse. Knox: Right, yeah, because, uh Lovecraft did admit to um, to creating that, but uh - DE: It's like what Orson Wells did when he did, you know, the War of the Worlds from the radio, he was doing it for a reaction. He just wanted to wake people up, so they, the radio station - it was in the 50s, they thought there was actually an alien invasion, so they called the radio station and asked what he was doing. Knox: Right. DE: You know. So, he did it for a kick, I mean ... It did inspire alot of people to find out some of the history of the Necronomicon. You know, Morbid Angel (...) old Sumerian text and beliefs to their lyrics, you know? So I mean that, granted, alot of people took it way too seriously, but for those who had already been reading Lovecraft and LaVey and other stuff, I think appreciated the fact that at least it shed some light on some of the older cultures that are out there, and where LaVey got most of his influence, too... you know, with the Enochian he uses, and stuff like that, that whole language... you know, alot of it's based on actual history. Knox: Right. Well, I've just heard it, uh, suggested that uh, you know, I've read part of his, uh, Satanic Bible and that type of thing, and he does make reference to Nyarlathotep and some of the deities that are mentioned in the uh, in the Necronomicon, it has been suggested that he actually had a part in creating the actual, um, obviously fabricated book, uh, but he actually uses some of those names in his own, uh, rituals because he says that they're names of power. DE: Well right. The Cthulhu Mythos, I mean, you know... I don't think LaVey had a part in creating the, the Necronomicon... the reason why - and this is the reason why. Is that, the, even Lovecraft knew about Sumerian religions and those deities. Uh, Lovecraft popularized their names, and that's the only thing he did, but those names of power that you made reference to, are actually part of the Sumerian, you know - part of Sumerian (tape is garbled) - but all those names are real, and they were based from..., you know, Sumerianism. And so, so LaVey used alot of different names. He even used, you know, like M.O. from Pan, and stuff like that, and... dealing with rituals and where their power is coming from, and stuff. The (tape garbled) But I don't think he had a part in the Necronomicon whatsoever, other than the fact that both he and uh, Lovecraft, understood, you know, where those deities came from, and those names. |
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