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Aklo is the name of a fictional language that has been used by many authors from its first reference in 1899. The language is said to have mystical powers. Aklo was first mentioned by Arthur Machen in his 1899 story "The White People". Aklo was mentioned but not described in detail by Machen, being noted in passing by the story's narrator as part of a secretive game or ritual. In The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Aklo appears as a language used in Black Masses and by the Illuminati.

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  • Aklo is the name of a fictional language that has been used by many authors from its first reference in 1899. The language is said to have mystical powers. Aklo was first mentioned by Arthur Machen in his 1899 story "The White People". Aklo was mentioned but not described in detail by Machen, being noted in passing by the story's narrator as part of a secretive game or ritual. H. P. Lovecraft admired the Machen story, and used Aklo in his Cthulhu Mythos stories "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Haunter of the Dark". The authors who have used Aklo have played into the fiction that the language has magical powers, and so have not included much detail to prevent "some careless reader from incant[ing] a spell capable of calling forth evil". In The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Aklo appears as a language used in Black Masses and by the Illuminati. Alan Moore later used Aklo in his Lovecraft tribute short story and 2003 comic The Courtyard, in his 2010 comic Neonomicon and again in Providence. In his adaptation, Aklo is not just an alien language, but a key that opens doors inside the human mind which is "connected to Moore's general view on actual magic and the role of words in modifying a human's perception of reality." The Pathfinder RPG, published by Paizo, uses Aklo as the language of several subterranean, otherworldly, or otherwise Lovecraftian species in the game's universe, such as aboleths, gibbering mouthers, and shoggoths. (en)
  • El aklo es una lengua artificial citada principalmente en las obras de Los Mitos de Cthulhu de H.P. Lovecraft. Esta lengua se presenta en la ficción como un lenguaje secreto o un código asociado a cultos satanicos y a la escritura de textos prohibidos. (es)
  • L'aklo è una lingua artificiale citata nelle opere del Ciclo di Cthulhu di Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Viene presentata come una lingua segreta, forse un codice artificiale usato da una razza non umana, correlata con la scrittura di testi proibiti e culti del male. L'aklo fu inventata da Arthur Machen nel suo racconto del 1899 . In seguito venne resa celebre nelle opere di H.P. Lovecraft. Alan Moore se ne servì per due suoi racconti: e . (it)
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  • El aklo es una lengua artificial citada principalmente en las obras de Los Mitos de Cthulhu de H.P. Lovecraft. Esta lengua se presenta en la ficción como un lenguaje secreto o un código asociado a cultos satanicos y a la escritura de textos prohibidos. (es)
  • L'aklo è una lingua artificiale citata nelle opere del Ciclo di Cthulhu di Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Viene presentata come una lingua segreta, forse un codice artificiale usato da una razza non umana, correlata con la scrittura di testi proibiti e culti del male. L'aklo fu inventata da Arthur Machen nel suo racconto del 1899 . In seguito venne resa celebre nelle opere di H.P. Lovecraft. Alan Moore se ne servì per due suoi racconti: e . (it)
  • Aklo is the name of a fictional language that has been used by many authors from its first reference in 1899. The language is said to have mystical powers. Aklo was first mentioned by Arthur Machen in his 1899 story "The White People". Aklo was mentioned but not described in detail by Machen, being noted in passing by the story's narrator as part of a secretive game or ritual. In The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Aklo appears as a language used in Black Masses and by the Illuminati. (en)
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