Hadal

Below six thousand meters lies a region known as the hadal zone (a term coined only in 1959 from the French Hadès); in the Marianas Trench off the Philippines it is 11,000 meters deep. ❋ Flannery, Tim (2007)

They would have some hadal artifact for her to translate. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

A poncho covered the body of the hadal that had rushed them yesterday. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

These are old meditation cells clawed from the ground by hadal acolytes. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

But with no faces to see or screams to hear, with not a single hadal in sight, it seemed like a very small cartoon. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

He talked about doing a documentary, but I figured he was just another pirate looking for hadal gold. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

She saw Conan the Barbarian comics jumbled with math equations and hadal cuneiforms. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

And the hadal prisoner pointed at one I had drawn on my face. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

And how else did you explain the presence of the same recurring glyphs and images and spirals carved in the walls leading to the most impressive buildings in each hadal city? ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Someday a Rosetta stone might turn up to bridge the gap between the writings left by the hadal empire and the modern languages of man. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Let me introduce my next guest, Professor Alexandra Von Schade, an expert in hadal cultures and civilization. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Yes, whole theorems, using hadal numbers and symbols! ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

In a sense, that incident had closed the book on hadal civilization. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

She made out the phosphorescent shapes of girls piled together, and among them a brutally wounded man with hadal markings and missing his hand. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Then, suddenly, the hadal tribes had nowhere left to go. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Your plague wiped out all their generations, the last of their memory, every last one of the hadal nations. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

Everyone—hadal and child alike—surged into the minefields. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

At its height nine thousand years ago, the hadal empire had been a sort of dark paradise. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

At the edge of her hearing, she could almost distinguish soft syllables and bits of hadal click language. ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

The settlers of Electric City had taken to eating hadal flesh? ❋ Jeff Long (2007)

“Wait I’m [empty]... let me [inject] my Tourine Hadal into [my balls]” ❋ Grant Hansen (2018)

Can you [lend] me some money? How about you [get a job]! Meel hoo u baahan hadal waxbo kama taro. Just [give me some money] ❋ (2022)