"You know our Gods are gone. They reside now in the Tuaut, the underworld, the gates of which have been held shut for eighteen centuries by some pressure I do not understand but which I am sure is linked with Christianity. Anubis is the god of that world and the gates, but has no longer any form in which to appear here....There is a spell...in the Book of Thoth which is an invocation to Anubis to take possession of the sorcerer. This will allow the god to take physical form - yours." - Prologue: February 2, 1802, page 3.

"Now - pay attention, this is the important part - sometime something happened to punch holes in the metaphorical ice cover. Don't ask me how it happened, but spread out across roughly six hundred years there's a...shotgun pattern of gaps, in which certain normal chemical reactions don't occur, complex...