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"Outside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes."~H. P. Lovecraft in "The Dream-Quest of unknown Kadath"
(Not much to say really, after I had done Ubbo-Sathla I really wanted to fool around photoshop a little more and create Azathoth, I was bored this afternoon and this was the result
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Brian Lumley said he was actually the Big Bang, and not a god.
He also claimed that Nyarlathotep was just a disguise worn by various mythos gods, hence his "1000 forms".
Also Shub-Niggurath was just the power of the Great Old Ones to spawn offspring on humans.
I have serious trouble accepting his stories as "canon"
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(Late reply, it's been over a year since I last logged in)
Yep, there's a set of Mythos' Authors that I can't really take 'seriously' or simply don't really care about, Lumley being of of them. Moreover, personally, I find that all those authors trying to give extensive explanations about things/places/creatures of the Mythos kinda miss the point of 'fear of the Unknown'.
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Even worse is John Glasby, who died a few years ago.
Two issues of CRYPT OF CTHULHU under the titles of PLAINS OF NIGHTMARE and THE BROODING CITY published the contents of an intended Arkham House book that was never published. Tho he wrote other stories, I've no desire to waste my time reading them, as Glasby got tiresome .
Usually the mythos god appeared as a vast formlessness and the fool who summoned it gets grabbed by its huge hand, and quickly eaten ! Tentacles, eyes all over its churning body ...
Tsathoggua , Cthulhu,Shub-Niggurath & Hastur have all appeared, but in noncanon ways. Cthulhu was shown wandering around as a 3-legged monster with its head wabbling back & forth, seeking entry into a castle whose fool owner had somehow stolen a black statue of the god from some South Sea Island.
Some gods are not even named. They just appear, grab the hapless guy and eat him !
Glasby also devised his own version of Innsmouth. The cursed Brittish towns of Tormount, Redforde.... with hybrid inhabitants ...
I long reached the saturation point with mythos stories,books... and am content NOT to add to the shelf of them.
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Yeah, moreover, I'd rather read a Mythos story that is trying to be a horror story rather than a Mythos story that is trying to be... well, just that, a story within the Cthulhu Mythos by naming/explaining things without actually caring about the reason that made Lovecraft's stories interesting to begin with: a normal person encounters an unfathomable horror. (If I remember correctly, Robert M. Price actually said so himself. I'm not a big fan of him but he is right about that).
I haven't read Glasby but Ramsey Campbell also created his own towns obviously mirroring some of Lovecraft's. He has managed to create some good stories though. His reveal of Y'Golonac in 'Cold Print' after teasing the reader in previous stories (that featured the Revelations of Glaaki), was wonderful in my opinion. Reducing the BS about cults and other Mythos entities to a bare minimum, what is left is a rather creepy protagonist that reads the hidden volume of the Revelations and ends up fucking up so badly that enrages Y'Golonac who manifests by shreding his vessel and kills him. No explanations of who or what Y'Golonac is, where he came from are given. I think not even his actual appearance is explained with the exception of the mouths in the palms.
Also, I kinda like the non-canonical appearances of the Mythos deities, they can be some kind of manifestation of them instead of them actually in the flesh (because suppossedly, seeing them for 'real' would surely mean they have awaken? or even in that case, like in Call of Cthulhu, a blurry/confusing description should be expected).
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Azathoth is a very difficult entity to represent visually, being the embodiment of chaos. This is one of the best attempts I've seen.
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