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“After the dreadful events that occurred in the backwater town of Dunwich, Massachusetts further inquiry was launched by professors at Miskatonic University. Searching the charred ruins of the old Whateley home, a badly damaged but still intact wooden lock box was found among the rubble. This box contained a hideous metal sculpture, seemingly ancient occult documents and a small cypher-encoded notebook with the name “Wilbur Whateley” scrawled on the cover.With the help of Prof. Henry Armitage, the notebook was deciphered and it was revealed that the metal sculpture was an idol of “Yog-Sothoth”, a multidimensional being that had been worshiped by the Whateley family for generations.
Several metallurgical tests of the idol yielded no definitive answer as to what material it had been fashioned from and led scientists to conclude that the origin of the material to be non-terrestrial.”
The Idol of Yog-Sothoth is hand cast in solid resin and individually signed and numbered by artist Jason McKittrick
Measures 5″ x 3″
Accompanying this alien sculpture is a Miskatonic University: Special Collections Department catalog letter with a brief description and notes on the item’s discovery.
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segura2112 [2022-06-01 05:44:41 +0000 UTC]
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SirJCHyena231 [2017-12-03 20:32:24 +0000 UTC]
I refer to Yog-Sothoth as "Yog-Soggoth", easier to pronounce. 👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Also good depiction of him by the way! :3 Been wanting to see an idol of Cthulhu's grandpappy for some time. XD
Ivyssauro [2013-06-16 16:40:25 +0000 UTC]
i could never iamgine how someone would make a statue out of Yog-sothoth, and man, you made it, and it's so awesome!
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JasonMcKittrick In reply to Ivyssauro [2013-06-17 12:35:01 +0000 UTC]
Thanks a lot! It took a while to come up with a design that worked.
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JasonMcKittrick In reply to Wolf-Man-97 [2013-04-30 04:09:42 +0000 UTC]
They are available now for one day only! [link]
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JasonMcKittrick In reply to Prophet-malum [2013-04-30 00:06:34 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. It's actually all Lovecraft. He described in one of his letters that Yog-Sothoth also likes to take the form of a mass of spheres with rope-like tentacles.
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Webspidrman In reply to JasonMcKittrick [2016-01-13 15:06:58 +0000 UTC]
Is that true about the tentacles though? My understanding is that's more of a Derlethian than a Lovecraftian conception. I only remember Lovecraft saying that Yog can take whatever form it wants, but it's possible. In 'Horror at the Museum', Yog-Sothoth is described as 'only a congeries of iridescent globes'. I like this description because to me it feels "true to life", reminding me of the multiverse, and seems to me descriptive of something that eschews the geometry of 3D altogether. Due to its higher dimensionality, I don't think Yog, not needing to move through space-time, would need appendages to do things, like impregnate Lavinia, unlike it's "lesser" kin.
In any case, Lovecraft was known to change his ideas, like "Cthulhu"'s pronunciation, and I personally feel like giving every Lovecraftian entity tentacles overly Cthulhu-izes them, making them less unique and the themes behind them easier to ridicule by people who would prefer to see Lovecraft's creations as imaginative perversions of their obviously correct religious views (like Derleth did) or dismiss these beings as big, ugly, "evil" monsters rather than as representatives of what's real: the cosmic unknown.
Despite my preferences for more abstract depictions of Yog, I think the way you've created the idol is very tasteful. This is an amazing, awesome statue. Great job!
Maybe I'm griping because I feel like the tentacled version of Yog-Sothoth has become so common; I think I'll be contented once things start moving towards at least 50-50. That said, I've already seen some abstract depictions of Yog-Sothoth I think are fantastic for striking cords of beauty and transcendence rather than just horror.
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Webspidrman In reply to Prophet-malum [2016-01-13 15:32:39 +0000 UTC]
Ramsey Campbell had some good ones.
Also, Brian Lumley struck gold with Yibb-Tstll, one of my favourite post-Lovecraft Mythos beings. ^_^
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Webspidrman In reply to Prophet-malum [2016-01-26 23:35:26 +0000 UTC]
Who is Philip K. Dick? And in what story did he portray God as a Lovecraftian deity?
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Webspidrman In reply to Prophet-malum [2016-01-29 03:02:04 +0000 UTC]
Please let me know what story that one was. I'm not sure what to search for to find it; Tales from the Darkside, eh? Maybe I'll try searching for that....
Okay, I did the research and the story is called 'Eye in the Sky'. However, the "God" in that story is apparently not real, but because they are trapped inside one of the characters' imaginations it appears real.
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Webspidrman In reply to Prophet-malum [2016-01-30 09:48:18 +0000 UTC]
If you ever figure out what the story (or episode) was called, let me know! It'd be interested in learning more about it.
'Eye in the Sky' may not be the same story after all; that was just what I could gather based upon my own limited research.
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