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  • Personally I have no issue with the cupcakes around the cake because they're actual separate cupcakes and not glommed together in an unholy union from the Cthonic beyond.

    Confessions of a Cake Wrecker Jen 2008

  • They warned that the trendy abandonment of reason by the left would lead to a resurgence of forms of idiocy long thought vanquished, like the return of some Cthonic horror in a Lovecraft story.

    ID = Postmodern Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Now, when we consider that the Egyptian popular worship delighted in just such mysteries as these; that it related to the judgment of the soul hereafter; that its solemnities were secret and wrapped in dark symbols; and that the same awful Cthonic deities were the objects of its reverence; -- when we also remember that Herodotus and the other Greek writers state that the early religion of the Pelasgi was derived from

    Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

  • This element only arrives with the mysteries, and the worship of the Cthonic gods.

    Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

  • The other worship, running parallel with this, was of the Cthonic gods, deities of earth and the under-world, rulers of the night-side of nature, and monarchs of the world to come.

    Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

  • Clearly anyone who doesn't see his ultimate goal is a paid propaganda agent for Cthonic cults.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

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