According to the Guardians of the Black Bowers (those hereditary custodians of Horsingdon’s witchlore), there are gods so immemorially old and terrible that their names have either been forgotten or purposely erased from the annals of the region - names now historied only in the form of curious and inscrutable sigils referred to by the folk of Horsingdon as ‘The Other Signs’.
These enigmatic glyphs, whilst rare, can nevertheless be found in the form of Neolithic etchings found on lonely spars and outcroppings of ancient bedrock scattered across Croxley moor and along the Ebury Way; their likeness may also be discerned in some of the images scrawled within the crumbling pages of a grimoire which once belonged to a local cunning man, but now resides in the Special Collections of Boreham Park Library; more recently, a motif not dissimilar to one of the Neolithic sigils found on Croxley Moor was daubed in goat’s blood upon a wall of the Northwich Park Station underpass.
For the most part, these sigils remain untranslated. Perhaps this is for the best, for the strange and disconcerting forms of The Other Signs hint at alien sounds, arrhythmic syncopations, and monstrously entropic grammars which could not possibly represent, signify, or correspond to - at least in a comprehensible and meaningful manner - any realm or zone of being comprehensible to the human mind.
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