Does "Zool" in ghostbusters have a real mythological basis?

Question

Just wondering...

Answer 1

XUL is found in the Necronomicon

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2964325/Necron...

I think it translates as "evil " in Sumerian

http://www.ping.de/sites/systemcoder/nec...

here is another interesting article I found

http://human-threshold-systems.whitlarks...

Answer 2

Not that I can find.

There is a good chance that they took the word "Xul" from a list of "Common Sumerian Words and Phrases in  English" taken from the fictional book the Necronomicon by "Simon".

The Necronomicon is a book which appears in the fictional horror works of H.P. Lovecraft, which later became so much of a literary / cult in-joke, that in 1980 "Simon" ... "a student of magic, occultism, and religion" claimed to have received from "the Mad Arab" as an authentic manuscript of the most powerful and dangerous grimoire ever known.  He then consequently "translated" and published that grimoire, claiming that the manuscript was unavailable for verification (which it undoubtedly was, as according to Lovecraft it does not and did not ever exist.)

And based on that book, there now seems to be a whole left hand magick movement which base their assumption on the idea that this book actually contains ancient Sumerian wisdom and consequently, there are copies of this pseudo-Sumarian "dictionary' from this fictional book floating all over the Internet.  (I could not find any reference from a reliable source that any of the worlds on this list are actually Sumarian.  Every source I found for the list was a direct copy of the list in the fictional Necronomicon and based all of their conclusions on the assumption that the Necronomicon was 'true" not the fictional gag it was written as.  

So... "Xul" appears to appear now (since 1980) in the extended Cthulan mythos which was originally created by H.P. Lovecraft as a fictional mythos and which has now been expanded upon by others to the extent that it is now used in "Satanism" and "left hand" occult practices, as misinformed and misguided individuals pick up this fictional book and, assuming that it is 'true' base their practice on it.  But I can't find any evidence in actual Sumarian or Babylonian mythology of either a Xul (or a Zule or a Zuul) or a "Gozer".  It looks like something the writers borrowed from the Necronomicon, which would have been pretty recently published at the time they wrote Ghostbusters (which was released in 1984.)

Answer 3

That would be:  Zule.

Answer 4

No.