The Lullaby of R'lyeh: Unveiling the Eldritch Truth Behind 'Wake Up Little Susie'

Diadorius Bryant is someone you probably don't know. He and his girlfriend, Matilda Scaduto, were avid readers, poets, and song writers in the previous century.

Exactly 21 years after H. P. Lovecraft's death, the two wrote a song commemorating the "child" of Lovecraft, all grown up.

Their "song" began as an incantation. If enough people chanted it, they hoped, it would awake the Old One, Cthulhu.

Among other things in the song...

Sudden Awakening Phenomenon: There's a phenomenon where people wake up suddenly at around 3 am or 4 am for no apparent reason. This is also known as the "witching hour", when the veil between dimensions is thinnest, which could allow a powerful chant to break through. They just needed people to sing the song at 4am. Some kind of reminder, maybe even hidden in the song.

The song explains how the Old One has fallen asleep, and is entombed in a prison at the bottom of the ocean. "Trouble, Deep". And the minds of humanity have similarly been asleep, until now.

So they created this chant that would perfectly harmonize with the dimensional veil, and hopefully pierce it. The chant became a song. At its core was this harmonic, called the Ever Lyric.

The problem was that Diadorius needed enough people to sing it and he knew it would never happen under his name. So he waited.

He waited until the universe brought him someone who could bring the Ever Lyric to the masses. Enter the Ever Ly brothers.

The name "Cthulhu" itself is famously difficult to pronounce, and Lovecraft himself said that the closest human pronunciation could be "Khlûl'-hloo." A human corruption or simplification of the harsher "Kh" sound actually sounds like "S".

Cthulhu, being an ancient cosmic entity, is often associated with forbidden knowledge and the hidden truths of the universe, thus linking the numerological significance of "Shoshanah" with the arcane lore of Cthulhu. In numerology, the letters in "Shoshanah" add up to the number 9 (Shin=300, Vav=6, Shin=300, Nun=50, He=5; 3+0+0+6+3+0+0+5+0+5 = 26; 2+6 = 8, then add 1 for the "hidden" letter Aleph that begins the root word, totaling 9), which is often associated with wisdom and mystical knowledge.

Well there is one very modern name with the root "Shoshanah": Suzy.

And that is why The Everly Brothers' song "Wake up little Suzy" is so catchy.

You are actually summoning Cthulhu.