Possible Leads:

International:

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• Hungary: The Black Stone possibly a sinister monolith brooding among the mountains of Hungary. (see Unaussprechlichen Kulten for more details)  UPDATE: Trammel's Journal refers to The Black Man - related? 
  (source: annotations in our copy of Unaussuprechlichen Kulten; these annotations possibly reference a secondary source, possibly a travelogue – possibly another book from Echavarria’s collection if the handwriting is his?)

• Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt – author of the original Unaussprechlichen Kulten; could there be notes of his somewhere re: what he chose not to print?

• Brill Davidsen – published Cults of the Aksumite Empire in 1897, may still be alive and/or have left behind further notes.  His book references Revelations of Glaaki (Acuna’s book) suggesting parallels.  His thesis mentions the “Prisoner of Glaaki” and the “Maw of the Mouth”.​

from Savitree's Notes
 

• Australia: Stirling Henry (of Oxford, now in Australia) - in 1934 he contacts Husain Soliman re: "Cyclopean Stone Blocksin the Great Sandy Desert of Australia.  Savitree came into possession of photographs and noted clear parallels to the odd stone carvings and "little red men" described in Victor Hill's Legendry and Customs of the Severn Valley.  Savitree believed these might be related to the same lore described in the Revelations of Glaaki, and therefore could lead to the identity of the Liar from Beyond.  

  • Savitree wasn't the only one to take note.  Her notes indicate Miskatonic University is planning an expedition in close coordination with Mackenzie (the man who took the photographs) departing in Spring 1935, and that she was in contact with a Professor William Dyer of the Geology Dept.
     

• Egypt:

  • ​Legends of the birth of a volcano, a "mouth of the earth" - a "mouth" gets into an argument with a goat herder (or farmer, or whatever) until it explodes.  Savitree believes this was a manifestation of the Many Mouths (Echavarria's Gol-Goroth).  However, there are no volcanic sites in Egypt, so the legend is unlikely to be Egyptian in origin.  

  • In Trammel's journal, discussing the Black Man - "He was a vaulted past stretching to the sands of ancient Egypt."
     

• Tunguska (Siberia): One version of the story in Arabic described a massive explosion which "ripped the Mouth apart and buried it at once, so that its voice might be stilled and would shift no more​".  This caused her to look for other similar explosions which drew her to the Tunguska event of 1908.  Leonid Kulik, a Russian mineralogist, convinced the site was a meteoric impact, began an expedition in 1927, to which she sent an "ethnologist" Braunlich and a team, secretly, to search for a mouth sign - of which they found none. 

  • She had hoped that such an explosion might have caused mouths to appear on fallen trees (as Braunlich had found in China the year before)​​.

  • Local "Evenki hunters" believed the blast had been a visit from the god Ogdy and that the land was now cursed. The phrase Ogdy's "shout" initially interested him, but he soon dismissed it as local folklore.​

  • Entering the Interior of the Blast Zone, however, led to curious results.  Braunlich and Kulik's teams became separated.

    • Kulik's team became secretive. They were observed entering a cave complex​, possibly removing materials from therein; and would not allow Braunlich's team "because of seemingly paranoid territoriality". 

    • People began disappearing, no bodies found.  It appeared the missing persons seemingly wandered off into the snow due to "hypothermical paradoxical undressing", but Braunlich was unconvinced. 

    • Hal Becker, Braunlich's head of security, captured a strange Old Man prowling in the area.  Becker is convinced the Old Man is murdering the missing persons.  The Old Man claims to be a surviving member of a 1908 expedition to the area. 

    • Braunlich met privately with the Old Man for just over a half-hour.  Then stumbled out of the tent muttering about a "Black Thing", collected several firearms and left the camp.  Braunlich's body was found the next morning, crushed between two fallen trees.  During the night, the Old Man escaped.  There was an unsuccessful manhunt, but some reported "strange luminosities emanating from the direction of Lake Cheko".  

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• Tibet:  (the site of Kang Rinpoche, Mt Kailash) - THE ORIGIN STORY????

  • Savitree was in possession of a rare copy of The Key of Solomon, which included not just Books I and II, but an unknown Book III.  Book III dealt primarily with "lalarta pu" or Phantom Mouths. ​ Although the lalarta pu do not seem to have exactly the same properties or behavior of the mouths manifested by Echavarria and his inheritors, Savitree discovered that the summoning rituals described shared several key points in common with the summoning ritual Echavarria performed in 1924.  Unfortunately, the rituals are frustratingly incomplete, requiring - like much of The Key of Solomon - an additional key or cypher to unlock.  

    • The Key offers several warnings about the mouths being liars which cannot be trusted "unless one knows the identity of 'the master above them'" and uses it to bind him (using combinations of the demon-binding rituals found in Book I of The Key of Solomon.)   The mystery of the Master of the Mouths is, of course, left a mystery (most likely consigned to the same lock text as the ritual keys).​

    • The book claims the lore concerning lalarta pu is derived from the "teachings of the panarka, from those who passed beyond Persia into the lands of bisit uzni."  It tells of the legendary peak of Kang Rinpoche, the Precious Jewel upon which hung a "Wreath of Mouths".  During that golden age, the "nectar of bliss" was said to flow down the sides of the mountain and the air was filled with truth through the songs of lalarta pu".  This Golden Age of Kang Rinpoche came to and end, however, when the Great One withdrew itself "into the Maw of the Mountain" and "opened its many mouths in the seven corners of the world".   

    • By 1932, Savitree seemed convinced that Kang Rinpoche had, at the very least, been the prehistoric site of worship for the Liar from Beyond. (And it even seemed likely that it might be the true site of the Maw itself).  Furthermore, she believed that she had identified the location of Kang Rinpoche: Mount Kailash, the sacred peak of Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists; well-spring of the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Karnali Rivers.  

    • In Summer 1932, under the leadership of Husain Soliman, the Emporium of Bangkok Antiquities mounted an expedition to Mount Kailash, but faced difficulties performing their survey, hampered by the reverance of the locals. 

      • In August, Soliman attempted to take a secret sample from the peak, but his team was driven off by enraged pilgrims making their circumambulation around the mountain. 

      • Soliman's team was able to climb a number of faces of the mountain, but found no mouth-signs, nor evidence of cavities or cave-works.  

      • Alex Kramer became increasingly convinced there was something "odd" about the area around the "Abode of Lord Shiva" (a sort of rift on the far side of the mountain), but repeated climbs there found nothing. 

      • Soliman himself stayed aground to study further.  With the assistance of Phajol Khadpo, a "mystical expert", he was able to locate several ancient, heavily worn Buddhist stupas in an isolated rift a few miles from the mountain.  These mound-like structures typically contain Buddhist relics, but when Soliman excavated he found sealed casks of lead.  Most proved to contain only dust, but inside one he found the remnant of a MOUTH carved in stone.  Unfortunately, it crumbled to dust soon after the cask was opened.  

      • Savitree concluded Mt Kailash was a dead end.  Her identification of the mountain might be incorrect, and certainly something remained locked in the secrets of The Key of Solomon, yet to be deciphered. 

It may behoove us to compare this text with the book referencing Nectar in China to see if the two locations have any relation.