A curious behavior of the shoggoth is their repetitive cry of "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" Demonstrating their mindless mimicry, this is a phrase they copied from the Elder Things.

The dread cry of "Tekeli-li" first appeared in The Narrative of Gordon Arthur Pym by Edgar Allen Poe, in which it is a cry associated with mysterious white-coloured birds and uttered by the natives of the Antarctic land of Tsalal whenever they encounter white objects. A mysterious white figure...

Sep 14, 2012 · Tekeli-li! Although the pronunciation of Tekeli-li! is not stated, other than by Poe's own choice of letters, the linguistic Note at the end of Pym says that Tekeli-li! is associated in some way with the concept of the color white.

Shoggoths that remained alive in the abandoned Elder Thing city in Antarctica would later poorly imitate their masters' art and voices, endlessly repeating "Tekeli-li" or "Takkeli", [3] a cry that their old masters used.

Tekeli-li (pronounced: /tɛkɑːˈlili/ teck-ah-LEE-lee[3]) was a gnoll vampire, and a former Fang of Yeenoghu that lurked in Icewind Dale during the 14th and 15th centuries DR.[1][2] Tekeli-li was once a mortal gnoll, who led his pack across the frozen lands of Icewind Dale.

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) and H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (1931) are texts that reveal the inconsistency and unreliability of language as a tool for expressing meaning. Pseudo-accounts of the past, they are am-biguous and uncanny, qualities that thwart ideas about reliability and truth.

"Tekeli-li, They Cry" is a Lovecraftian short story by Canadian author A. C. Wise. It was first published in the Broken Eye Books anthology Tomorrow's Cthulhu in January 2016. On a future Earth where reality is broken and time has little meaning, a …

Tekeli is a Turkish word derived from teke ("male goat "), and means "having or possessing goats; goaty". It may refer to. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title .

The cry "Tekeli-li" was created by Edgar Allan Poe in "The Narrative of Gordon Arthur Pym", then used by H.P. Lovecraft in "At the Mountains of Madness". Concepts from both of those stories were used in "Into the Frozen Land" ( Conan the Savage #3 ; October, 1995) and "Within the Mountain of Madness" ( Conan the Savage #4 ; November, 1995), in ...

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