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H.P.Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos human mind to correlate all its
By: Arc/Eclipse contents. We live on a placid island
of ignorance in the midst of black
Well,now that chaos is rampant in the seas of infinity and it was not meant
age of distrust, what with that we should voyage far. The
confrontations, and impulsive sciences, each straining in its own
habitats, and so on, on and on south direction, have hitherto harmed us
of heaven, I was wondering: why can I little; but some day the piecing
never find a pen when I need one? I together of dissociated knowledge
mean I have to use this crappy word will open up such terrifying vistas
processor and printer, and I could of reality, and of our frightful
have written on the back of a used position therein,that we shall either
bus ticket instead and lost it. That go mad from the revelation or flee
reminds me, I must put all my from the deadly light into the peace
addresses and phone numbers in and safety of a new dark age."
some sort of book.........but anyway,
I was going to tell you how cool H.P. Lovecraft was born in 90 and
H.P. Lovecraft is, but you probably died in 37. During his 47 years he
already know. No? Well, here is my wrote a large collection of short
all time favourite H.P. Lovecraft stories and novellettes. The vast
paragraph (a pretty famous one): majority of these works became
collectively known as the Cthulu
"The most merciful thing in the mythos. It is a highly complex
world,I think,is the inability of the mythology concerning races of gods,
and races which inhabited the Earth place in the universe.
millions of years ago. The mythos
goes something like this: 2 Billion years ago the Elder things
landed on Earth, which was an almost
The universe is ruled by the Outer lifeless planet at that time. They
gods. These are a race of god-like bred animals which later evolved into
beings who have little or no interest dinosaurs, and mankind.They also bred
in humanity. They are controlled to the shoggoths, to serve as slaves.
an extent by Nyarlathotep, the
embodiment of the souls of the Outer Later,Cthulu, the most important of
gods. He is the only outer god to the Great old ones, and his star
take interest in human affairs, and spawn, landed, and started a war with
delights in causing madness and the Elder things. The great old ones
insanity. He is also the only outer are hugely powerful beings,though not
god to have a true personality. gods, who practice black magic and
Azathoth is the ruler of the outer built gigantic cities, the remains of
gods, and exists at the centre of the which can still be found in the
material universe. Azathoth is both shifting sands of the Sahara and the
blind and idiotic, and a "monstrous frozen polar extremes. Cthulu made a
nuclear chaos". His urges are truce with the Elder things after 4
fulfilled by Nyarlathotep. His second million years of war. However, as the
in command is Yog-Sothoth, who is moon was ripped from the planet, the
locked in another dimension. It can continent of R'lyeh, home of Cthulu
transport anything to any time and and his spawn, was plunged into the
sea. However, the spells of Cthulu cults on Earth.
perserved them and now they lie, in
living death, waiting for their Cthulu: (Kuh-thoo-loo)
worshippers on Earth to waken them
from their long slumber. The Elder Cthulu is,in his physical form,a huge
things continued to live, and after anthropoid being with wings and
the arrival of several lesser races, tentacles on his head. He can change,
and many wars with them, their to a certain degree, his physical
civilization was all but destroyed appearance, such as the size of his
when their servants, the shoggoths, wings, or tentacles. Cthulu rose from
revolted,and after a war of survival, his sleep in 1925, but was trapped in
leaving them with no slave beasts,the the remains of his cities as they
Elder things start to decline, and sank beneath the waves again.
their cities are mostly destroyed by
various geological cataclysms. THE OUTER GODS
THE GREAT OLD ONES The outer gods take little interest
in the affairs of humanity. They are
These are immensely powerful beings, mostly idiotic manifestations of
who are immortal, and do not inhabit energy.
our dimension completely. They are
only partially composed of matter,and Azathoth: (AZ-uh-thoth)
therefore cannot be killed. Many,
especially Chtulu, are worshipped by Azathoth is the ruler of the outer
gods, and the ruler of the universe. Yog-Sothoth: (YAHG-sau-thauth)
It is a seething mass of energy,which
lives at the centre of the universe, Yog-Sothoth is locked outside the
where the gods dance around it to the material universe, and can only be
sound of a monotonous pipe.It is both summonned here by the use of certain
blind and idiotic, and always follows spells, found in the NECRONOMICON, a
Nyarlathothep's advice. It is know- famous occolt tome,a copy of which is
ingly worshipped only by the kept at the library of Miskatonic
criminally insane. Universary, Arkham, Massachusetts. It
holds the power to travel between the
Nyarlathotep: (NIGH-ar-LATH-oe-tep) planes, and can transport humans to
anywhere in space, time, or other
Nyarlathotep is the messenger of the dimensions. It has been called the
gods,and is the only outer god with a Key and the Gate. It is worshipped by
true personality. He serves Azathoth, old wizards and the insane.
and enjoys creating madness and
insanity, far more than death and THE ELDER GODS
destruction. He has over a thousand
forms, only a few of which have ever The Elder gods are rivals to the
been recorded. One is an Egyptian- outer gods and are generally more
looking human, another is a great benign to humans then the outer gods.
faceless beast, which has one blood Many are similar to the Olympian gods
red tentacle in place of a face. of ancient Greece.
Nodens: NOE-denz such as the Yithians, and the Migo
(Fungi from Yuggoth). The fungi from
Nodens appears as an old man, who Yuggoth have small mining colonies on
rides a chariot of a sea shell,pulled earth,and are capable of spaceflight.
by unicorns or some other beast of They will not harm humans unless they
earthly legend. He has been known to come too close to their colonies.They
take humans for rides across the are physically weak,and a small armed
galaxy, and back. force easily could wipe out their
colonies. However,more would come,and
Bast: BAST they could easily conquer the Earth
if they so desired. They are capable
Bast is a cat goddess, who is of prodigious biological and surgical
represented as a woman with a cat's skill, and can remove the brains of
head. She does not play much of a humans, and place them in life
role in the affairs of humanity, sustaining metal containers, to take
except perhaps when someone is them through the vacuum of space to
especially cruel to cats. She was their planet, Yuggoth,known to humans
worshipped in Bubastis, in Egypt. as Pluto.
She is worshipped by all cats, and
possibly a few humans. The Great Race Of Yith
INDEPENDANT RACES The Yithians are an alien race, who
projected their minds into the bodies
There are other less important races, of a prehistoric race of conical
beings, whose minds were exchanged Also, one of his short stories, "The
with those of the Yithians, and the Outsider" appears in this issue.
minds of the conical race were left
to die in strange alien bodies. They
gathered knowledge of the universe, Article by : Arc/Eclipse
and could exchange minds with beings Clipart by : Arc/Eclipse
from all periods of time,and had come
to know the entire history of Earth,
and what was to be. However, they
projected their minds far into the
future, to escape the destruction of
their civilization by a mysterious
race of alien beings, known only as
the flying polyps. Their minds came
to occupy the bodies of a race far
into the future, beyond the
destruction of the human race.
This is a small piece of the Cthulu
mythos. The works of H.P. Lovecraft
can be bought in omnibus volumes, and
there is a roleplaying game by
Chaosium based on his works.