Happy Halloween everyone...
I thought today was appropriate for airing a tiny bit of my meanderings into the occult aspects of this story. So if you hate my posts on this angle, you're guaranteed to hate this one too. Just think of it as a ghost story, it couldn't really be true anyway, but it makes for a good read on Halloween.
One thing that had been bothering me for a while is the name "Lil Demon Dog" which Sam McCroskey used in addition to the Syko Sam name. It has been theorized that both names refer to the Son of Sam who was not named Sam, but who claimed to be directed by an ancient demon who was resident in his neighbor Sam Carr's dog.
One gentlemen named Paul Calcagno is the origin of this story I believe, and his theories have been posted on a blog here:
http://sammccrosky.blogspot.com/2009/09/sam-mccrosky-aka-syko-sam-aka-lil-demon.html
McCroskey's sister denies that her brother was obsessed with the Son of Sam.
Here's the thing though. If Sam McCroskey was "Lil Demon Dog" I have to wonder who is "Big Demon Dog"?
Calcagno claim's that the making of this video (which features four ritual murders) was a Satanic ritual aimed at invoking a 3000 year old demon dog which I previously surmised was the infamous Pazuzu who is also featured in the movie
The Exorcist.
You might also recall that in the O.T.O. interview with SickTanick which I previously posted here he details the story of his recording
Doctrines of the Damned which he says is in part autobiographical. In particular there is the story of the main character who conducts a ritual and then contacts a demon who shows the character his soul in its left hand.
Consider now the cover of SickTanick's record:
The nice fellow in the center surrounded by the mysterious symbols is none other than Pazuzu. In other words,
Doctrines of the Damned is SickTanick's story of evoking Pazuzu. For those interested in the symbols, the symbol on the right is known as the unicursal hexagram and represents the union of man and god. It is used in Thelemic rituals. The symbol on the left is an alchemical symbol meaning sulfer or brimstone (black sulfer). The symbol at the top is more mysterious, and it took a while to construct a thery of it's meaning. Exercise left to the reader, but I'll give you one clue: the Hebrew letters spell the word for "wire" in Hebrew.
If you follow the story of this recording as well as other clues left by SickTanick in the lyrics, you can conclude that this recording is intended to summon or teach someone to summon Pazuzu. Some may recall that Pazuzu is a wind demon representing the southwest winds. SKR hails from the southwestern United States.
What I didn't know until recently was that Pazuzu also has a little brother or son (depending on the story) named Humbaba. I claim "lil demon dog" is a coded reference (consciously or unconsciously selected) to Humbaba the guardian of the Cedar Forest. Humbaba has two well known characteristics: his face is made of entrails and he smells like death and decay. He was decapitated by Gilgamesh according to legend.
Sam McCroskey in his Syko Sam guise typically covers his face with a bandanna. Perhaps so we can't see his face of entrails? And he walked around smelling like death.
According to a book about mythology and astronomy,
Hamlet's Mill, Humbaba is associated with the planet Mercury and the star Procyon. Those interested in astrology and astronomy will note that Mercury was retrograde during the time of the murders and will recall that Procyon is in the constellation Canis Minor and is known as "The Little Dog Star". Procyon is Greek for "before the dog" apparently because it would rise before the star Sirius ("The Dog Star") giving early warning of the annual Nile floods.
