Lomar is a fictional land in the Cthulhu Mythos

Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...

 of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

, first mentioned in his short story "Polaris

Polaris (short story)

"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher...

" (1918).

Location

In "The Mound", one of H. P. Lovecraft's revisions, the land of Lomar is said to be "near the earth's north pole."

History

Lomar "rose from the sea" in the far distant past. The people of Lomar came from Zobna, a land even further to the north, "forced to move southward from Zobna before the advance of the great ice sheet". When they arrived in Lomar, they "valiantly and victoriously swept aside the hairy, long-armed, cannibal Gnophkehs that stood in their way."

Lomar is the source of the Pnakotic Manuscripts

Pnakotic Manuscripts

The Pnakotic Manuscripts is a fictional manuscript in the Cthulhu Mythos. The tome was created by H. P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his short story "Polaris"...

. People from the underground realm of K'n-yan

K'n-yan

K'n-yan is a fictional, subterranean land in the Cthulhu Mythos. The underground realm was first described in detail in H. P. Lovecraft's revision of Zealia Bishop's "The Mound" , in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador Zamacona...

 brought an image of the deity Tsathoggua

Tsathoggua

Tsathoggua is a fictional supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle....

 to Lomar, where it was worshipped.

The story "Polaris" implies that Lomar was destroyed around 24,000 B.C.

Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity and before the advent of...

 by the Inutos--"squat, hellish yellow fiends who...appeared out of the unknown west". (Lovecraft identifies these people with the modern day Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

, whom he calls "squat, yellow creatures".) In The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, however, he writes that "the hairy cannibal Gnophkehs overcame many-templed Olathoe and slew all the heroes of the land of Lomar."

Olathoë

Lomar was home to the city of Olathoë, described in the story "Polaris":

Still and somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow between strange peaks. Of ghastly marble were its walls and its towers, its columns, domes, and pavements. In the marble streets were marble pillars, the upper parts of which were carven into the images of grave bearded men.

Later in the story the plateau is identified as Sarkia, and the mountains as Noton and Kadiphonek.

The title character of the story "The Quest of Iranon" says he has "dwelt long in Olathoe in the land of Lomar", thus suggesting that the other places named in that story coexist in the same world and era as Lomar.