I did manage to find the online text, with the same images, although they would not come through here...curious.
Excerpt from DR. C.U. Moore’s book,
“The Variant Stages of Cthonic Biology”
Miskatonic Press, 1947
Chapter Sixteen
Types of Religious Symbolism Used in Cthonic Worship
Part One:
There is no doubt that some of the degraded peoples of certain backwards countries have, indeed, at some points in time, actually worshipped certain biological creatures as gods, or at least, visiting entities from another space and time.
While these practices are, beyond reasonable doubt, ludicrous, it behooves any scholar researching the biological Cthonic studies to take a moment to learn a bit more about the origins of such “cults”, and the resulting repellant figurines, texts, and paintings that sprang from the festering minds of the worshippers.
The Difference Between Organizational Structures:
Great Old Ones:
Considered by most educated persons to be the Octopidian ancestors of today’s modern cephalopods, many of the seafaring countries world wide persist in their belief that there is, in fact, a great “octopus headed god” , that for some unknown reason, is sleeping at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a “monstrous, sky-flung tower of basalt”. According to their ridiculous theories, at a certain point in time, this “god” will arise and wipe the bulk of humanity from the surface of the Earth, in preparation for the next series of movements through the non-Euclidean space , as described by the ramblings of the wild Professor Einstein.
The actual dates, of course, are widely varied, according to what culture happens to be spouting out the “information”. The Mayans state that the great deluge will occur in 2012, while some of the cults in the Northern Hemisphere insist it will be on the cusp of 2001, as the Milennium changes. More will be discussed later in this text, as appropriate.
(see coloured plate twenty one)
Elder Beings:
The large Radiata found by several expeditions to the Antartic Region of our globe have indeed revealed some interesting clues into our own evolution, and the specimens recovered by the first two journeys have proved to be a baffling conundrum for the scientific world, showing signs of actual pre-human intelligence beyond the simplistic minds of the mere animals. More to the point, some of the festered cults in the southern
seas actually have evidence of carven sculptures and petroglyphic artworks showing beings that are very similar in shape and hideous outline to that of the recently discovered Radiata, which have not yet been classified, as they show signs of belonging to both the Animalae and the Plantae kingdoms.
(see plate twenty one, figure two)
Colured Plates 21:
fig 1
fig 2