One cultist, known as Old Castro, provides the most elaborate information given in Lovecraft's fiction about Cthulhu. The Great Old Ones, according to Castro, had come from the stars to rule the world in ages past.
They were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape...but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. 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.
—[16]
Castro points to the "much-discussed couplet" from Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon:
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.
—[17]
Castro explains the role of the Cthulhu Cult: When the stars have come right for the Great Old Ones, "some force from outside must serve to liberate their bodies. The spells that preserved Them intact likewise prevented them from making an initial move."[16] At the proper time,
the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from his tomb to revive His subjects and resume his rule of earth....Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
—[18]
Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
But in general, the theme of apathetic universe is what it was supposed to be, right?Yeah, in Lovecraft's stories. An apathethic universe, and human beings living in an ever-decaying civilization that is all that keeps them shielded from the chaos and the madness. Thus, Lovecraft stories always end either badly or very badly, and his characters tend to kill themselves to spare themselves the horror.
Not that the last group would be unwanted. I'd LOVE to meet a Cthulhu cultist, provided they didn't try and sacrifice me.'sup lol
That whole thing with the Xothians was not made by Lovecraft, and flies in the face of the point he was trying to make in the first place: That we are small, insignificant insects in a cold, uncaring universe with things that could not care less about us or our tiny little blue marble all around us.What part? In The Mountains of Madness detail a war between the Elder Things and the Starspawn(Xothians). We're still meaningless, luckily.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm a bloopwatcher:
http://www.bloopwatch.org/thebloop.html
I got irritated when people like Derleth started giving the Great Old Ones and outer gods familial relationships.
I hate it when writers try to continue series written by other writers. It's just glorified fanfiction, and it tends to be about as good as your average fanfiction available on internet.
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Probably start off good but veer away from the One True PAth That Doug Would Have Chosen.
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Correct me if I'm wrong:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
How can there be more Hitchhiker's books? How can it be a Hitchhiker story without the characters...
QuoteI hate it when writers try to continue series written by other writers. It's just glorified fanfiction, and it tends to be about as good as your average fanfiction available on internet.
Yeah, I hated Kevin J Anderson's Dune books as well.
All I know about Cthulhu comes from memes and Wikipedia. :-[