Book of Eibon

The Book of Eibon, also known as the Liber Ivonis or Livre d'Eibon, is a grimoire by the magician Eibon of Mhu-Thulan. Among other things, the book contains chronicles of Eibon's life, and includes his magical spells and rites.
== History ==
Book of Eibon was originally written in the forgotten Tsath-yo language somewhat more than a century before the onset of the last Ice Age. This primordial manual of sorcery was a collection of dark and baleful myths, liturgies, rituals and incantations both evil and esoteric. Also, it preserved the oldest incantations, and the secret, man-forgotten lore of Yog-Sothoth and of Tsathoggua.
After the death (or disappearance) of its original author, the text was compiled, from manuscripts and treatises found amongst his papers by Eibon's favorite disciple Cyron of Varaad. Cyron himself wrote an account, the Vita Ivonis, of his Master's life, and something of his last days (which became chapter IX of book II).
A century or so later, when Hyperborea was abandoned before the advance of the glaciers, a copy or copies of the Book were saved from the collapse of Hyperborean civilization and were carried to the mainland of Europe by the members of a secret brotherhood of sorcerers, who revered Eibon's memory.
Copies of the Book probably existed in the first post-Hyperborean settlements of Zobna and Lomar, and in the city of Sarnath in the land of Mnar. Many centuries later, followers of the great prophet Kish (who foretold the destruction and fall of Sarnath) rendered the Book into the language of their epoch.
The tradition asserts that a Punic translation from the Kishite was made, about 1600 B.C., by the Syro-Phoenician scholar, Imilcar Narba. There are faint traces of a Byzantine-Greek (or Graeco-Bactrian — the authorities differ widely) version made at some date subsequent to the Punic by an unknown writer, but we have merely rumors of this and scant evidence.
Still later, perhaps as early as the 9th or as late as the 10th century A.D., the Medieval Latin translation of C. Philippus Faber, a copy of which is preserved in the Library of Miskatonic University, was written.
At some period before the year 1200, it is thought most likely, the notorious necromancer Nathaire discovered a copy of the Greek version in, it was rumored, the tomb of an ancient wizard.
During the closing years of the 13th century celebrated alchemist and occult scholar, Gaspard du Nord of Yvones, made his famous translation of the Book into Norman-French, calling it the Livre d'Eibon.
Category:Grimoires