Claromecó Lighthouse is a striped tower on the coast of Buenos Aires Province, the southern double of Cape May and the goal of the 1966 journey of the Operativo Cóndor descent, where the Esoteric Order of Dagon awakened its blue stone and turned the beacon into a summons to what sleeps under the sea.
| Type | Place |
| Location | Claromecó, near Tres Arroyos |
| Era | 1966 |
| Spanish entry | Faro de Claromecó |
Description
A masonry tower painted in white and black bands, about fifty-four meters tall — among the tallest in Latin America — with 278 steps to the lantern, a Fresnel lens, a 400-watt lamp and its own generator. The fenced grounds have a camera and the keeper’s house. Around it: the coastal town (founded c. 1920) a couple of kilometers away; a forest belt of pine, poplar and eucalyptus, some 3,000 hectares planted against the dunes; and the Hotel Santa Delicia. The road comes from Tres Arroyos, seventy-odd kilometers away, about 530 km from Buenos Aires; the group reached it in a stolen Citroën 2CV.
The keeper’s family is that of a Navy petty officer. Two of its men are named: Sergeant Ramírez and Fernando Aguirre.
The northern double
The lighthouse is the southern copy of Cape May, on the United States coast: the same point repeated in two hemispheres, two pegs of one network of ley lines of the old northern brotherhood of lighthouse keepers, the Northern Lighthouse. This is why the rite took place here.
The rite
The Order — fish-men who worship Cthulhu — wanted to bring the blue stone here and wake it atop the tower. Placed in the lantern and stained with blood, the stone began to breathe. The lighthouse became a column, a stone tentacle connecting north and to the sea, emitting a pink frequency that drained the townspeople of will, leaving them docile as sleepwalkers. Those who witnessed the lantern lost their reason.
Aftermath
The blue stone vanished from the lantern, replaced by a whistling yellow-green egg that seems to hold a world inside, like a snow globe enclosing the land of two suns. The lighthouse still turns its light, but remains a living peg of the northern network, a point where surface and depths touch. The Hybrid Son comes from the same brotherhood and the same descent.
Conflicting accounts
- The keeper’s surname is given first as Torres, then as Alfaro.
- One passage says the Echegoyen are not the keepers but the lords of the land, which the Bellocq family donated for the tower; another lists Echegoyen among the keeper’s possible surnames.