Rapport
8 œuvres sur 222, 38 occurrences — 30ᵉ entité la plus citée du wiki sur 139. Parutions transcrites de 1930 (Fungi de Yuggoth) à 1951 (À travers les portes de la Clef d’argent), sur 6 œuvres datées. (dates des numéros transcrits, posthumes comprises.) Le foyer est La Quête onirique de Kadath l’inconnue : 30 occurrences, 79 % du total — l’entité y est presque entièrement contenue. Densité : 3,3 occurrences pour 10 000 mots dans les œuvres concernées. Voisine surtout Dylath-Leen : 9 rapprochements dans un même passage. 1 fiche du wiki y renvoie.
Leng est volontairement inlocalisable : Lovecraft le place à trois endroits incompatibles selon les textes. Cette incohérence est un procédé — le lieu existe dans plusieurs mondes à la fois, et sa position ne peut pas être fixée par une géographie humaine.
Attestations dans le corpus
| Œuvre | Année | Occurrences | Part |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Quête onirique de Kadath l’inconnue | 1943 | 30 | 79 % |
| Celui qui chuchotait dans les ténèbres | 1931 | 2 | 5 % |
| Celephaïs | — | 1 | 3 % |
| Fungi de Yuggoth | 1930 | 1 | 3 % |
| Hors du temps | 1933 | 1 | 3 % |
| L’Horreur dans le musée | 1933 | 1 | 3 % |
| Le Molosse | — | 1 | 3 % |
| À travers les portes de la Clef d’argent | 1951 | 1 | 3 % |
| Total | 38 |
Ce que le corpus en dit
Une phrase par œuvre, prise à l’endroit de la première occurrence.
This man was reputed to trade with the horrible stone villages on the icy desert plateau of Leng, which no healthy folk visit and whose evil fires are seen at night from afar.
— La Quête onirique de Kadath l’inconnue, 30 occurrences
I found myself faced by names and terms that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connections—Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, YogSothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum—and was drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the …
— Celui qui chuchotait dans les ténèbres, 2 occurrences
So Kuranes sought fruitlessly for the marvellous city of Celephaïs and its galleys that sail to Serannian in the sky, meanwhile seeing many wonders and once barely escaping from the high-priest not to be described, which wears a yellow silken mask over its face and dwells all alone in a prehistoric stone monastery on the cold desert plateau of Leng.
THE ELDER PHAROS From Leng, where rocky peaks climb bleak and bare Under cold stars obscure to human sight, There shoots at dusk a single beam of light Whose far blue rays make shepherds whine in prayer.
Though it flourished chiefly in those Pacific regions around which Mu itself had once stretched, there were rumours of the hidden and detested cult of Ghatanothoa in ill-fated Atlantis, and on the abhorred plateau of Leng.
… Amazon valley, Alaska, and certain little-known islands of the South Pacific, plus claims of having read such monstrous and half-fabulous books as the prehistoric Pnakotic fragments and the Dhol chants attributed to malign and non-human Leng—but nothing in all this had been so unmistakably insane as what had cropped out that June evening under the spell of the whisky.
Rencontres dans le texte
Entités dont une occurrence figure à moins de 320 signes de celle-ci — même phrase ou phrase voisine.
But he did not like it when, turning back to wave a last farewell, he thought he saw approaching the camp that squat and evasive old merchant with slanting eyes, whose conjectured traffick with Leng was the gossip of distant Dylath-Leen.
It seemed likely that this merchant had caused his former capture by the slaves of the moon-things in Dylath-Leen, and that he now meant to do what the rescuing cats had baffled; taking the victim to some dread rendezvous with monstrous Nyarlathotep and telling with what boldness the seeking of unknown Kadath had been tried. Leng and the cold waste north of Inquanok must be close to the Other Gods, and there the passes to Kadath are well guarded.
— La Quête onirique de Kadath l’inconnue, avec Kadath l’inconnue
Carter recalled that it lies in the valley below Leng, and recalled likewise that he had seen in Dylath-Leen a sinister, slant-eyed old merchant reputed to trade on Leng, therefore he advised the ghouls to seek out Dylath-Leen, crossing the fields to Nir and the Skai and following the river to its mouth.
Croisements
Entités qui partagent ses œuvres, les plus spécifiques d’abord ; entre parenthèses, le nombre d’œuvres communes.
Personnages — Kuranes (2), Richard Upton Pickman (3), Abdul Alhazred (4), Albert N. Wilmarth (1), Henry Wentworth Akeley (1)
Divinités — Tsathoggua (4), Azathoth (4), Yig (2), Nyarlathotep (3), Ghatanothoa (1), Rhan-Tegoth (1), Shub-Niggurath (3), Yog-Sothoth (3)
Créatures — Les Maigres Bêtes de la nuit (3), Les Anciens (4), Les Mi-Go (2), Les Bêtes lunaires (1), Les Gugs (1), Les Polypes volants (1), Les Zoogs (1)
Lieux — Yuggoth (5), Celephaïs (2), Dylath-Leen (1), Arkham (4)
Objets — Les Manuscrits pnakotiques (5), Le Necronomicon (5), Les cylindres des Mi-Go (1)
Thématiques — La conscience emprisonnée (2)
Cycles — Le cycle du Rêve (2), Le cycle de Randolph Carter (2)