If your deepest, darkest fears came to life,
they’d probably manifest as Cthulu.
It is said one look at This Great Old One
will cause your mind to collapse.
Be warned MythStorians, what follows is not
for the faint of heart, or weak of mind.
We explore the following creature at our own
risk.
So without further ado let’s get
to it.
CTHULU: ANXIETY INCARNATE
Greetings Mythstorians, and welcome to our
series exploring the fictional mind-warping
monsters of H.P.
Lovecraft.
This is especially important now as a new
season of Stranger Things is just around the
corner.
Lovecraftian creatures serve as inspiration
for the show.
1928’s Call of Cthulu was the first story
to feature the title monster of the same name.
In this tale, Cthulu is a creature lurking
deep within a lost underwater city somewhere
in the South Pacific.
There he is trapped and at rest, but is forecast
to return.
The creature is worshipped worldwide in the
story and, for some reason, plagues the inner-minds
of all humankind with fear and worry.
Cthulu creator H.P.
Lovecraft described the creature “a monster
of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an
octopus-like head whose face was a mass of
feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious
claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow
wings behind.”
He also writes, that “A pulpy, tentacled
head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body
with rudimentary wings.”
Lovecraft said Cthulu was “an octopus, a
dragon and a human caricature”, all at the
same time.
It is said Cthulu can reach out to both the
creative and the insane, but for some reason,
the rational-minded among us are beyond the
creature grasp.
Cthulu was once the leader of all on Earth,
and, as the creature’s followers believe,
is destined to be so again.
In the early days of humanity, Cthulu was
said to converse with people telepathically
and brought them to places of worship featuring
alien art and other extraterrestrial creations.
But following the evolution of humans, the
creature and is ilk vanished into the deep
blue.
Though many still worshipped the monster across
the globe.
They are the Cult of Cthulu and work to awaken
their god from his ocean slumber.
And should this Great Old One rise, then civilization
as we know it will devolve.
What’s even more terrifying Mythstorians,
is that Cthulu was said to be beyond human
comprehension.
If the entity were to appear before you, then
your mind would cave in at the sheer sight
of the creature.
This is because Cthulu comes from a realm
beyond our time and space, an alien dimension
of fear and horror.
And should the creature deem humanity a target,
then we have no chance of hope.
Cthulu is simply above us and we are beneath.
But not to worry Mythstorians, Ctuhulu probably
wouldn’t even notice us.
We are merely ants in an uninteresting extradimensional
plain.
Tadpoles in an ocean.
Dust in the universe.
Plus Cthulu’s not real, but don’t tell
the beast we said that!
Yet here on our simple mortal plain, there
is still so much more to explore and even
more to find out.
Is there something we missed?
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Also, check out our series on the scary predictions
of Nostradamus.
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