You can see why we have come to refer to it as the "Cthulhu Clock" Is it part of a plot by Baron von Ungern- Sternberg to open a door for the Great Old ones?
Monday, June 06, 2011
The Wierdest Clock in the World...
... stands in in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia in front of a bank. I know that is a coelacanth on top (why??) but what are those... tentacles? I can't read Mongolian, only (some) Russian, but I have a vague recollection of shooting a slide of a plaque with an inscription on it.
You can see why we have come to refer to it as the "Cthulhu Clock" Is it part of a plot by Baron von Ungern- Sternberg to open a door for the Great Old ones?
You can see why we have come to refer to it as the "Cthulhu Clock" Is it part of a plot by Baron von Ungern- Sternberg to open a door for the Great Old ones?
I love that clock. First came across it on my second trip to Mongolia in 2006 and took a couple of pics of it.
ReplyDeleteA FB friend posted the link to your blog and asked me about it since she knows I'm "into" Mongolia.
Maybe the coelacanth was added later as a kind of guardian spirit, they prey on tentacled beasts.
ReplyDeleteThe 'tentacles' remind me more of the CZ rotunda roof, decorated by local pigeons.
ReplyDeletesfox: Mongolia and Central Asia in general are among the most important themes here, not just for me but also in part for Cat. I have been on two long Mongolia trips which resulted in a book (Eagle Dreams) and another to Kazakhstan for dogs; Cat has also ridden with the eagle hunters.
ReplyDeleteType "Mongolia", "Central Asia", Eagle", "Lauren" [McGough, friend who did a Fulbright in Olgii with the eagle hunters] or "tazi" among other subjects into the search bar of the blog.
Also try The Royal Vizsla blog-- though it is mostly about the Hungarian bird dog, Andrew is another Mongolophile traveller-- even stayed with the reindeer tribes in winter.
Annie, yeah, that too if a 40 year memory is right. We are gettin frickin OLD.