Jian Year 16: First introduction to "Call of Cthulhu"--Introduction to the Cthulhu mythology system

The Cthulhu Mythos is based on the novel world of American writer Howard Philip Lovecraft. It was compiled and improved by August William Derleth and edited by many authors. A system of fictional legends created.

The founder of the Cthulhu mythology, Lowe's life was full of tragedy. When I was a child, my father suffered from mental illness and died. Later, my mother suffered from depression and died. Even his good gay friend - Robert, the author of "Conan the Barbarian" - shot himself, so Lowe finally couldn't withstand the successive blows and contracted intestinal cancer. Within two years, he followed his good gay friend. . The things written by such a tragic person are naturally full of pessimism and world-weariness. In some aspects, Lowe is similar to Kafka who wrote "The Metamorphosis" and "The Castle". Like the lonely and desperate Kafka, Lowe also weaved a huge castle in his heart for himself. Using his neurotic tentacles to explore this objective and confusing universe, he wants to know the meaning of his cursed fate. Ultimately, Lowe tells us with his works: His fate is meaningless, and so is the fate of you, me, and all mankind.

The essence of the Cthulhu Mythos is: a mockery of mankind’s expanding thirst for knowledge and desire for conquest in the industrial age, a sense of powerlessness about the inevitable demise of civilization, and a fear of the deep and unknowable universe.

By the early 20th century, mankind's confidence in itself and the power of science had expanded to an unreasonable level, and it began to believe that everything was knowable and conquerable.

This deep, huge and unknown universe has been imagined by humans as a farm that is in urgent need of civilization to transform and enjoy. Human beings have lost their awe of the world, the universe, and God.

However, with the ruins left by the two world wars and the shadow of the world nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony, people felt that civilization had entered a countdown.

Only then did humans discover that they had mastered power that they should not have mastered. The advancement of science and technology was the beginning of destruction, and the cornerstone of civilization was just a phantom made of sand, vulnerable to a single blow. In the Cthulhu Mythos: The invention of the atomic bomb was taught to Einstein by Nyarlathotep, with the purpose of making humankind self-extinction faster and complete the task of "cleaning up".

The existences that can truly roam around and sleep peacefully in this world are those indescribable, crazy and evil ancient rulers. Their existence does not need to be explained. What they themselves symbolize is that there is no reason. of destruction and chaos. The so-called wisdom of civilization is vulnerable to their great stupidity and madness, and the struggles of intelligent races are nothing more than a farce staged in the palm of their hands.

In the works of the Cthulhu series, we can also see that the protagonist either goes crazy, dies, or has his memory wiped, and then continues to live in this world ignorantly. There is no so-called justice at all, and there is no so-called halo of the protagonist. There is only chaos and disorder silently controlling everything. Everything is controlled by a foolish Azathoth, the leader of the Old Ones.

As a free and open collective creation, the Cthulhu Mythos actually does not have a clear structural system at all. Today’s Cthulhu Mythology is no longer solely represented by Rockman, but has many participants. The brainchild of the author. Chaos is chaos. In the Cthulhu Mythos, there are still some basic settings that everyone recognizes, such as Azathoth, the head of the demon god, and the three pillars of gods derived from him.

Also known as the "Blind and Stupid God" and "The Source Core of Original Chaos", it is the supreme existence in the Cthulhu mythology system.

It is equivalent to China's Pangu and Greece's Gaia, but it looks a bit disgusting and has no intelligence. In layman's terms: it is an omnipotent retard (but, for it, what is the purpose of intelligence? Nothing People can disobey it, but no one can threaten it). His appearance is a huge amorphous mass, floating in the depths of the universe, without purpose or meaning, but it itself represents the truth of the universe: the source of the universe is darkness, evil and chaos, and will eventually return to it. These. Therefore, even the Cthulhu mythology system itself cannot escape its fate. From the day of its creation, it has become increasingly chaotic and disorderly. If there were only Azathoth, the world of Cthulhu might have become silent in our field of vision, but if there is no death, Azathoth split into three pillars:

Alias ??"Dark Fengranzhi" "Goddess", "Supreme Mother Goddess", also known as "The Black Goat of the Forest that gives birth to thousands of descendants", is a god with super fertility, created by Lovecraft. In the system constructed by August William Derleth for the Cthulhu Mythos, it is one of the entities that symbolizes "earth". Its image is a huge piece of meat like a black cloud, with many tentacles and a big mouth dripping with mucus. It has bred many Old Ones, and can also give birth to a monster called "Dark Spawn".

Among all the gods in the Cthulhu Mythos, Shub Nicholas is the most widely worshiped. Among humans, it is used by the Far North people, the people of Mu, and the people of Sarnath (Lovecraft's fictional place name, which happens to be the English spelling of Sarnath in India), as well as all druids and A savage religion worshiped; among non-human races, it is also worshiped by Mi-Gol and Nugg-Thoth, among others.

Born from the "nameless fog" in "darkness", "nameless fog" and "chaos", he is the ruler of time and space, one of the three pillars of the original god, also known as " The Key to the Door” or “The One Who Lives All Things, All Things Return to One”, coined by Lovecraft. It is often seen as the supreme being next to Azathoth, omniscient and all-seeing, and one with all time and space. Yog-Sothoth lives outside the space-time continuum. It is generally believed that it does not exist in this universe and this dimension, and is not bound by time and space. It can be said to be an existence second only to Azathoth. This thing that looks like an electrified soap bubble is omniscient and connected to all time and space. Don’t underestimate it or poke it, otherwise your brain will explode because you can’t accept the huge amount of information. Death (among the most merciful consequences of offending Yog-Sothoth).

Yog-Sothoth is the portal through which things in the void can pass again. All time is unique to Yog-Sothoth. Yog-Sothoth knows the labyrinth of time. Yog-Sothoth knew where the ancient Great Old Ones appeared and where the recurring Old Ones reappeared.

Also known as "Ambush Chaos", created by Lovecraft. Nyarlathotep is the earthly messenger and spokesman of the Outer Gods, and is especially subordinate to Azathoth. Unlike most of the alien gods and Old Ones, he is the only one who can survive in this space without losing his power. He is also one of the very few alien gods who displays rationality that humans can understand. Nyarlathotep is always keen to deceive and seduce humans, and his highest joy is to plunge humans into terror and despair.

Nyarlathotep has many incarnations and titles, and dozens of them have appeared. Nyarlathotep's most well-known incarnation is the Night Howler, a hideous, roaring giant with a giant tentacle where his face should be. The human incarnation of Nyarlathotep is usually a dark-skinned, tall and thin man with a hearty smile.

Other incarnations include the "Black Pharaoh", the "Faceless God" and the "Night Hunter".

We can know that Cthulhu belongs to the water camp of the Old Ones. It looks like a big octopus. However, the camp of the Old Ones was divided into four factions, among which earth, fire, water and wind were all hostile camps. When faced with the expulsion of the ancient gods, they would unite and fight together against the ancient gods; other times they were enemies of life and death, the kind who would be jealous when they met. In fact, strictly speaking, Azatos and the Three Pillar Original Gods are also among the Outer Gods, but they are much more powerful than ordinary Outer Gods.

The Outer Gods are essentially the Great Old Ones. But the abilities of the Old Ones lag far behind those of the Outer Gods. Outer gods are the embodiment of the power of the universe and are existences far beyond the universe. Its ability is enough to crush all ordinary old rulers. Then the Cthulhu mythology system is divided into several races, including superior independent races, inferior independent races, superior servant races, and inferior servant races. Among the upper-level independent races, there are macrophage worms, star colors, flying leeches, etc.; among the lower-level independent races, there are some races such as ghouls; among the upper-level and lower-level servant races, we are the ones we encounter in various film and television games. Various monster prototypes. As for what race humans belong to? It doesn’t seem to be the case~~~~

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Gherroth, an alien god who roams the vast universe, looks like a small rust-red comet with a huge red eyeball on its surface.

Hastur, he is known as the Unspeakable One, the Lord of the Deep Space Star Sea, and his abilities are on par with Cthulhu. The two are cousins, not to mention, they look very similar, no It’s just an octopus

The Great Race of Yith’s superior independent race

Gnoph-Keh’s superior independent race

Ghast, a lower-level independent race

Void ghost, cruel malice

Deep One, a lower-level servant race

Black goat cub, Sha The descendant of B. Nicholas

Color of Stars, Predator of Life

Chthonian superior independent race

Gug Giant ) Lower-level independent race

Moon-Beast Lower-level independent race

Night Dire, the faceless one

Human-faced rat, the vicious mocker, Spies on the run

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The Old Ones--Baidu