Tag: Lovecraft Cthulhu Sketch

A time will come – but I must not and cannot think! Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.

Cthulhu

Lovecraft’s inspiration was to tear humanity from its supposedly centralized place in the universe by forcing his characters to confront alien beings far older and wiser than humankind.

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#cthulhu sketch 150. only 215 to go.

What early humans could not understand they characterized as divine; thus, prescientific cultures deified incomprehensible entities like Azathoth.

The original schema, which places Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth at the top of the pantheon, is still widely recognized by many mythos writers.

The topmost tier of deities is served by earthbound, non-human beings. Cthulhu is regarded as the priest of the gods, while Dagon appears to be his subordinate. The lowest tier consists of the Elder Things and the Mi-go, both extraterrestrial races, and the Deep Ones, ocean-dwelling humanoids, which serve Cthulhu and Dagon

The first stage, or “Cthulhu Mythos proper” took shape during Lovecraft’s lifetime and was subject to his guidance. The second stage occurred under August Derleth who attempted to categorize and expand the Mythos after Lovecraft’s death.

Despite his notoriety, Cthulhu is not the most powerful of the deities nor is he the theological center of the mythos. Instead, this position is held by the demon-god Azathoth, an Outer God, ruling from his cosmically-centered court.

One day, “when the stars are right”, R’lyeh will rise from beneath the sea, and Cthulhu will awaken and wreak havoc on the earth.

The most well-known of these beings is Cthulhu, who currently lies “dead [but] dreaming” in the submerged city of R’lyeh somewhere in the Southeast Pacific Ocean.

Later peace was made, and the new lands were given to the Cthulhu spawn whilst the Old Ones held the sea and the older lands

Another race–a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to the fabulous pre-human spawn of Cthulhu–soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a monstrous war which for a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea

They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R’lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them.

HP Lovecraft began experiencing the parasomnia ‘night terrors’ from the age of six.
Night terrors cause the sufferer to physically move or scream to escape waking dreams, and are estimated to affect 3% of adults.

When Lovecraft was 3 his father went insane and died 5 years later, most likely from “general paresis of the insane.”