(Melchizedek Communique, MC031709) It is thought that Cthulhu is in league with one Hirah the Adullamite.

This certain Adullamite, named Hirah, was companion of Judah, a son of Jacob. (Genesis, ch. 38). Cthulhu, of course, is a "priest" who dwells in a house in the mighty city of R'lyeh, beneath the waves. [1]

Cthulhu is said by some to be the topmost villain in the world today. Now, one of his cohorts, Hirah the Adullamite, may have been identified.

Attention was called to this Hirah the Adullamite in the writings of mystic and theologian Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688 - 1772). In his multi-volume opus, Arcana Coelestia, Swedenborg asserts, "This falsity is represented by an Adullamite, for Adullam was on the boundary of the inheritance of Judah (Josh. 15: 35)." [2]

The tribe of Judah is, in other words, the Jewish people, whom Swedenborg distinguishes from an earlier people, the Hebrews, whose origin is traced separately by him to Heber the Kenite. The Oxford Companion to the Bible corroborates the distinction, claiming in part that the "house of Heber the Kenite is portrayed as having peaceful relations with the tribes of Israel as well as Jabin the king of Hazor, Israel's enemy." [3]

Hirah the Adullamite seems to have diverted Judah into a false path. At any rate, chapter 38 of Genesis tells a weird tale. Judah was led by Hirah the Adullamite to "a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah", who bore him three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. Er later married a woman named Tamar, but then "the Lord" slew Er.

It was the duty of Onan, the second son of Judah, to marry the widow Tamar and "raise up seed." Instead, Onan "spilled his seed on the ground." "The Lord" did not like this, and slew Onan.

By this time, Judah was exasperated. He told Tamar to go back home to her father. And anyway, Shelah, the third son, was not old enough at the time to marry Tamar.

Some years passed. The "daughter of Shuah Judah's wife" died. After mourning her death, Judah decided to travel to Timnath and shear his sheep. Again, accompanying Judah was none other than this same Hirah the Adullamite.

Tamar heard that Judah was on the way. She covered herself with a veil and sat waiting outside, near a place Judah would be passing.

"When Judah saw her [Tamar], he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face." (Genesis 38: 15). Judah bargained with "the harlot", then they went and had sex. But Judah did not know he had had sex with his own daughter-in-law!

Eventually, twins, Pharez and Zerah, were born from the strange union of Judah and Tamar.

From this, asserts Emmanuel Swedenborg, can be traced the origin of the Jewish nation (not to be confused with the earlier Hebrew nation). "There are three origins of this tribe, or of the Jewish nation -- one from Shelah, the [third] son of Judah, by his Canaanite wife; another from Perez [Pharez], and the third from Zerah, the sons of Judah by Tamar his daughter-in-law." [4]

Be it also noted that, according to Swedenborg, the above Biblical account, besides being historical, also contains a hidden, esoteric meaning.

------- Sources -------
[1] "The Call of Cthulhu", by H.P. Lovecraft
[2] Arcana Coelestia, by Emmanuel Swedenborg. n. 4816
[3] "Kenites". The Oxford Companion to the Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
[4] Arcana Coelestia, by Emmanuel Swedenborg. n. 4818