Someone should make FPS game like bioshock or the darkness where you play as Nyarly with the mission style like deus ex only different.
Recuirt cultists, eliminate opossing cults and assassinate its leaders use cunning magic like aracane traps, deception, poison, disases etc...
One mission would be like to assassinate leader of a cult by conjuring needles in his drink sunce nyarly likes more people to off thesmelves or friends and not to use brute force like Hastur.
@1DarkMasK1 (and Hastur doesn't use brute force. in fact, Hastur is one of the gods LEAST likely to kill you. he will make you go insane, however; but, much like Nyarlathotep, that's because it's just for kicks. which is why both of them get along. Cthulhu is the one who uses brute force, and Dagon as well)
from what I understand Azathoth sleeps at the center of ultimate chaos being kept asleep by the playing of drums and other instruments by the oldest of gods, and should he ever wake the universe would cease to exist.
Smug yes, serious not so much; after all it is a work of fiction. But if someone said the Lord of Nightmares was pure evil in Slayers I'd correct them, just as I'd correct someone if they said Bat-man could punch out Thanos. Its a matter of in-universe mythos. Normally you don't see so many applauds from fans to someone who makes a gross mis-statement regarding a character,
for "Azathoth" to give anyone a go, he'd have to wake up first to say it right? well if Azathoth ever wakes up then the universe ceases to exist correct? So then Azathoth could never give you the go to do anything.
@TheRhuen But why would Azathoth have to wake up to do that? If Nyarlathotep has been his messenger all this time while he was asleep I doubt he needs to be awake to be sending him any form of "ok go for it" message.... he'll probably eventually go and wake him up in the end on purpose anyway... would explain why he was smacking him in the head.
you can say I'm ignorant but can someone please tell me from where are all these gods or what about them I only knew Cthulhu but all the others like Azathoth and Nyarlathotep are new to me can someone please explain me?
@hilos1234 They are part of the "Cthulhu mythos", a pantheon of cosmic and chaotic beings and divinities that shows how insignificant humans are in the universe at large.
They were created by H.P. Lovecraft, a writer from the 20s. If you want to know more, just read some of its works, they're pretty good.
@hilos1234 If you are truly interested i recommend buying a necronomicon, either the Simon one or the Tyson one, or the "necronomicon: the best weird tales", they tell you everything you need to know about this. Just please dont take it for real and get obsessed like so many other people, this is a FICTION created by lovecraft, sry for shouting, it aint for you but for the millions of morons out there.
I would however, personally, stay away from the "Necronomicon Spellbook" by Simon.
heres an funny thought. Nyarlathotep is the sumoner of the old ones and he likes to discuise as a human. meaning if we kill him we can in theroi stop the old ones from ever awaken, but since theres no way of finnding him the on way to kill him is to kill every singel person in the world, meaning end of man either way :)
Don't want to encourage anybody to get any sillier, but L Ron Hubbard ripped off much of Scientology's fundamentals from HP Lovecraft's myths. You can spend $200K to join a cult that really believes in the Old Ones, or you can just have fun with them like this.
hehehehe i am.. hehehehe you wanna talk to me, blog with me... fuckface. come! and let me give you new dreams. sweet kiss. i might be a little circle of black, but i have a range depht of destroying stars. so come into my realm and take place as the used and the damned.
Can't wait for Azathoth to give me the go ahead so I can finally have some real entertainment and rip you mortal beings worlds to shreds and scatter the remnants to the cosmic winds.
@Nurgle1989 This is merely one of many mask worn to keep you adorable little insects busy chasing shadows as my plans continue elsewhere. As expected, it seems to have worked. ^_^
I mean bible was written as a fictional story by someone too.
So in that sense it would be kewl if we had real lovecraft religion :D
Find a very good magician that creates macabre, shoc and bizzare illusions (stoping his pulse, bloody tears, flies from mouth, turning liquid in something else etc...) put him in 3rd world countries and let him start his cult of nyarlathothep and peopel will believe in that.
I used to ONLY know the great old ones now I know there are so many more it makes my head hurt and I want things back to normal but I guess thats the thing about Lovecraft there is no going back
you'll just have a difficult time understanding their motivation and minds. It isn't like evil cackling. It's difficult to comprehend because you'd never want or experience that. They'll help you get back if you're lost by telling you how to motivate yourself back into your body, but I think they're beyond us in mind, not appearing to us in forms understood by us, perhaps annoyed by our happy thoughts like ours their dark ones.
I think if you wanna read good storys of nyarlathotep and cthulhu, you shoul read the GENESIS trilogy by wolfgang hohlbein. its about people on a ship and they get attacked by cthulhu and other elders. its really good
@MidnightatMidian Well, when you think about it, much of the mythos is based on ancient deities anyway.
Cthulhu could be seen as a mix of Tiamat and Leviathan/The Kraken.
Chaugnar Faughn perhaps a take on the indian deity (can't remember the name, is it Vishnu?)
I mean, Dagon is actually an ancient Babylonian God.
So yes, there is something there, but whether any of it's real? Perhaps, or it could be the ravings of a man not in sound mind or just fiction. Either way, it's damn good reading :).
@MidnightatMidian - Dagon is influenced by a Babylonian / Sumerian (one of the two) water deity. The child of Neptune that you're probably thinking of is the Kraken (or at least the Clash of the Titans depiction of it.)
@paraniodchris2 Pretty sure the point of the Cthulhu mythos is that humanity stands no chance against the horrors of the cosmos and Nyarlahotep is just the tip of the iceberg.
@ArkhanNightman I wouldn't say that Nyarlathotep is the tip of the iceberg. In himself, Nyarlathotep is the messenger to the Outer Gods, in some tales he is hinted at actually being one himself.
If you look at it in true fashion, Nyarlathoteps existence would be far more dangerous than that of Cthulhu, I mean sure, Cthulhu would eat a whole bunch of people, but Nyarlathotep has 998 destructive forms and a 999th which spreads deceipt, corruption and chaos.
Except the outer gods themselves can destroy all existence with a thought. Sure, Nyarly is strong and all, but he is definitely the tip of the iceberg compared to Azathoth and the others.
@TheFingerbuns I agree with Azathoth yes. However, Nyarlathotep is the servant of Azathoth, it doesn't state anything other than that.
As for the other Outer Gods, tbh, I don't know what to accept as real canon for that... After all, Lovecraft is all I consider to be 'true' mythos... And he barely even described Azathoth, let alone the others.
In fact, I think shub's only mentioned in passing in 1 or 2 stories. I prefer his way of putting the mythos in the background rather than the fore.
Well if you take a quick glimpse on the lyrics of Metallica ''The thing that should not be'' mid-verse, I guess, Nyarlathotep's said to be this crawling chaos wreaking havoc upon earth.
nyarlathotep IS created by lovecraft! he is also known as "the crawling chaos" and personifies the soul of azatoth. he is active and walks the earth in the guise of a human being, he has many different forms he can switch in...
there is no such thing as gods or divinity within lovecrafts cthulu mythos. there very point of there exsistances is that they are simply aliens that are so far beyond us merely trying to comprehend there very existence will drive you mad. it wasn't untill after lovecraft died and derllth got his hands on love craft works that he declared the great old ones gods and had them face off in epic battle against the elder gods from the dream cycle stories that the great old ones were considered gods.
@mrboylez Even though something does not need a physical form, it doesn't mean that they're somekind of ''gods'' who should be worshipped, it only means that they are so far beyond in they're evolution than physical beings that they do not need they're bodies anymore. YOU speak not what you do not understand.
HPL left it ambiguous as to what they were. you certainly can't explain Azathoth or Yog-Sothoth that way; beings coterminous with time and space itself (sounds pretty god-like to me). so what, they somehow "evolved" to be the center of all that exists? Also, how do you explain the mystical and sometimes downright magical characteristics that the Old Ones share, even in HPL's writing? Sure, you can make some argument that "spells" and "chants" are really somehow scientific, but cmon....
Hey how are the rest of you doing? Hope your well. If your a fan of H.P good stuff if not why comment? If you know anything about him comment if not go read the stuff you like.
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read his actual short stories, he actually wasn't a very good author. His creations were actually beyond his capacity to right a good story for them. Call of Cthulu, I heard so much about Lovecraft, looked up his monster, learned that others wrote most of what we think of today after he died, and then found a book of Lovecraft's actual works, read this story...and was utterly disapointed in it. I assume for his time it was ground breaking for horror, and his creatures left good visuals.
The Cthulhu stuff is highly overrated. That stuff was fun for him and his writer friends. Check out Herbert West-Reanimator. It was written with glee! The Cthulhu Mythos stories aren't very well regarded as fine literature, they just tied horror and fantasy. Lovecraft strayed when he tried to emulate Lord Dunsany, whom he idolized. His classic horror stuff is prolific. I love Lovecrafts writing.
Well, he started off his career emulating Lord Dunsany didn't he? Then he moved onto what is now considered the Cthulhu Mythos.
I would say that most of it it could be regarding as fine literature. I mean, he can convey across the horror of what the person is going through without even describing the creature bar a few vague descriptions.
I see it that any author who can make me break out in goosebumps with minimal detail of the said horror, must be good at his work.
As I recall Lord Dunsany and Arthur Machen were two big influences on Lovecraft, Machen and his concept of "cosmic horror" in such stories as 'The Great God Pan' were a part of the foundation of what Lovecraft would make famous with his creation of The Cthulhu Mythos.
Lord Dunsany did indeed inspire some of Lovecrafts work, but it was only really on his earlier work. I believe it was up until those done after the Dreamquest of Unknown Kaddath.
I was however unaware of the Arthur Machen influence. In fact, I had not heard of him so I'll be sure to look him up.
also, a point of interest if you are unaware. The mythos was not solely his creation, but that of multiple authors in the late 1800s. Another was August Derleth.
Well Derleth certainly was responsible for marketing the Cthulhu Mythos, without Derleth we certainly would never have had Arkham House and Lovecraft would never have seen print in anything ourtside of the pulps.
As to Arthur Machen, Lovecraft cited him as an influence "There is in Machen an ectasy of fear that all other living men are too obtuse or timid to capture"
Machin was one of the creators of the concept of cosmic horror and you might want to check out TGGP and The White People.
@MidnightatMidian I don't know much of Derleths work, but I must say i do prefer it when the mythos is in the background. When the mythos is thrust into the main focus of the story, it loses its charm.
After all, the more focus it has, the more description it has. The more description it has, the less terrifying something is.
Take The Colours From Outer Space. To describe them as shining spheres that drain life, like in the CoC rpg is physical, but to describe them as coterminous flashes
*falls over laughing* Yog-Sothoth is...wel, I'm not going to say...suffice, you wouldn't recognize him...and Markis2bi4...you were right about them taking different forms...although, they're not GODS...they're Animas...beings of significant power and species that keep a certain aspect of reality in line with the rest...there's one for Chaos, pain, fear, life, love...anything you could possibly imagine...
You should...just keep in mind that his stories were written about 100 years ago, he has a huge, although somewhat archaic, vocabulary, and he had a xenophobic (some would call it racist) view of things. I still can't help but love his stuff.
who cares? It's only a story written by a tormented man. I can't understand why so many people consider all this stuff real. Lovecraft had a wonderful creativity, but he used it in the wrong way. If he was more like Tolkien, or Charles Dickens, or even like Edgar Alan Poe, he would have done much better, instead of creating stories which dumb people consider real.... oh, we, humans, still have much to learn, specially Americans.(who are said to be the dumbest of all in the nowaday world...)
No. Stop saying this. He employed his creativity beautifully. You don't see people following Voldemort thinking he is the end of the world! This is not real-- most know that. I doubt that Lovecraft intended for people to think that this was all real.
Please clarify: If a minority of nutjobs think that Lovecraft's mythos are real, while the vast majority recognize them as fiction and enjoy them as fiction, how would that affect the quality of the stories in any way whatsoever?
Last time I checked "creating stories" is exactly what Tolkien, Poe, and Shakespeare all did.
And come off it; if every writer tried to write like Charlies Dickens, I would've stabbed my eyes out ages ago because there wouldn't be anything on Earth worth reading.
You got that right Stonegolem42! In one of my other, non-creepy fandoms, I've met at least one person who genuinely believed the things he saw on screen were real.
The fandom?
Transformers.
I'm not kidding. I wish I was, but I'm not.
Also, if I wrote like Charles Dickens, I would die. If one thing was true about the man, he could not write a decent death scene to save his life. And as death is a major part of my novels, if I was like that, I would slit my throat.
@RampantWolf Oh HA HA HA!! Jesus man can we go one vid without someone bashing religion so callously!? We're here for Horror, not for who's wrong, who's right and whether or not Azethoth is gonna destroy us all!
@Stonegolem42 It is as real as any other story told without scientific evidence to back it up, for instance The Bible, The Qu'Ran, The Torah and Talmud, or any Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist, or Confucianist documents.
@musselman86 None of these things can be proven, but they can't be disproven either. It is, and always has been a case of what you think, not what you know.
@musselman86 Although Cthulhu is at least straightforward in his motives unlike say the teachings of God or Jesus or Allah or Buddah etc which offer things like salvation for the soul :(, spiritual enlightenment :P, contentment:/, or monetary gain$ (as in the case of TV and internet fundamentalists) or promising you an an eternal afterlife with any number of virgins if you kill yourself and take non believers with you :P Whereas Cthulhu just wants to save you and planet earth as a dinner course.
@Stonegolem42 youre right. It doesnt affect the stories at all. Nut jobs though, how are they any different than the adherants of the thousands of fictional religious books out there? I find infact that they would be better off as the gods of the mythos are at most non-empathetic which something that advanced would probably be if it existed.
Then again, Lovecraft really did have an awesome cult fallowing, and really these are awesome stories. I hate when people take this stuff to far though, claiming it is real. Hahaha... Well all of this is fake. But either way, this is a really awesome universe.
@allgoraro Obama is not Nyarlathotep, Obama is Azathoth, Polosi is Nyarlathotep in the way that when Azathoth awakens He will put it to Nyarlathotep to destroy the universe.
there is significant historical proof of a jew named jesuse gathing a following and dieing on a cross and a lot of the old testimated has been proven acurate ilke all the history of the jewish people and stuff
I wasnt saying that.. Some people beleive this shit is totally real, and form some weird cults and shit.. I was syaing its bs since its all made up. I wasnt saying it has to be true for ppl to enjoy it.. Its obvious stories dont have to be true.. Next time you want to call someone retarded, try to understand what theyre syaing first -.-
as far as you know its not real. There are things of different realities and dimensions that we couldn't even begin to understand. Im not saying it is or isn't real but you never know.
Yes, of all things related to the Old Ones, Nyarlathotep is the most likely to interact with humans, though he rarely reveals himself as such. His motivations are closest to comprehensible by a human mind, usually finding amusement in seeing humanity suffer under its own ignorance, and watching them squirm as they realize the terror to be unleashed upon them.
He's got a thousand or so forms, so he can be a man in black, and a horrible shambling terror in the dark. Heck, he can be his own baseball team if he wants.
you are aware that nyarlathotep raped azathoths' daughter barbelzoa. causing her to jump from her throne at his side into the material plane causing her to become the earth itself and thats the reason azathoth is the blind deaf idiot god and nyarlathotep is the wandering darkness
I can live with that, besides I thought that that whole affair happened after azathoth became the blind deaf idiot god and the whole situation that caused that to happen to azathoth was that He was caught in a war in another dimension.
"To Nyarlathotep must all things be told, for he is the messenger between the spheres and the traveler between the realms of the living and the dead. He shall summon forth the ancient ones and wake them from their deathly slumber, then shall the elder signs be shattered and the lords of darkness be released."
just going by lovecraft's other pronunciations like Azathoth is az-ah-thoth and yog-sothoth is yog-so-thoth. i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure you pronounce the th.
Someone should make FPS game like bioshock or the darkness where you play as Nyarly with the mission style like deus ex only different.
Recuirt cultists, eliminate opossing cults and assassinate its leaders use cunning magic like aracane traps, deception, poison, disases etc...
One mission would be like to assassinate leader of a cult by conjuring needles in his drink sunce nyarly likes more people to off thesmelves or friends and not to use brute force like Hastur.
1DarkMasK1 1 month ago
@1DarkMasK1 if you played as Nyarlathotep, you'd either A. destroy everything in sight. or B. go insane as no human could control his might
hiimquinn 1 week ago
@1DarkMasK1 (and Hastur doesn't use brute force. in fact, Hastur is one of the gods LEAST likely to kill you. he will make you go insane, however; but, much like Nyarlathotep, that's because it's just for kicks. which is why both of them get along. Cthulhu is the one who uses brute force, and Dagon as well)
hiimquinn 1 week ago
Nyarlathotep is the coolest character/being/deity or whatever you wanna call it in the Lovecraftian universe. Just sayin'.
ItachiTenshi 2 months ago
nyarlathotep gonna getcha
Glopdemon 4 months ago
THESE VIDEOS ARE FREAKIN AWSOME!!!
Jak3thusn4ke 4 months ago
who's making these voiceovers?
FetteNajdal 4 months ago
@Necromancer7161
from what I understand Azathoth sleeps at the center of ultimate chaos being kept asleep by the playing of drums and other instruments by the oldest of gods, and should he ever wake the universe would cease to exist.
TheRhuen 4 months ago
@briGuyissupahfly
Smug yes, serious not so much; after all it is a work of fiction. But if someone said the Lord of Nightmares was pure evil in Slayers I'd correct them, just as I'd correct someone if they said Bat-man could punch out Thanos. Its a matter of in-universe mythos. Normally you don't see so many applauds from fans to someone who makes a gross mis-statement regarding a character,
TheRhuen 4 months ago
26 thumbs up for a flawed comment? cute.
@ DahakTzimisce
for "Azathoth" to give anyone a go, he'd have to wake up first to say it right? well if Azathoth ever wakes up then the universe ceases to exist correct? So then Azathoth could never give you the go to do anything.
TheRhuen 5 months ago
@TheRhuen way to serious face mr.smug
briGuyissupahFly 4 months ago
@TheRhuen no its when Azathoth stops playing his flute is when everything is supposed to come to an end
Necromancer7161 4 months ago
@TheRhuen But why would Azathoth have to wake up to do that? If Nyarlathotep has been his messenger all this time while he was asleep I doubt he needs to be awake to be sending him any form of "ok go for it" message.... he'll probably eventually go and wake him up in the end on purpose anyway... would explain why he was smacking him in the head.
JBlakens 1 month ago
0:30 looks like that boss from re5
clubpenguinmaster66 5 months ago
original audio sauce ?
KeLoman0 5 months ago
If i ever take a theology class i'm going to say everything they said in these videos
Tyler64381 5 months ago
There are many names or faces of Nyarlathotep, vary powerful being
ericwilliamkoop 6 months ago 2
you can say I'm ignorant but can someone please tell me from where are all these gods or what about them I only knew Cthulhu but all the others like Azathoth and Nyarlathotep are new to me can someone please explain me?
hilos1234 6 months ago
@hilos1234 They are part of the "Cthulhu mythos", a pantheon of cosmic and chaotic beings and divinities that shows how insignificant humans are in the universe at large.
They were created by H.P. Lovecraft, a writer from the 20s. If you want to know more, just read some of its works, they're pretty good.
FreddyMontana69 6 months ago
@FreddyMontana69 Oh thanks man yeah I have read some of his books and they're great but thanks again
hilos1234 6 months ago
@hilos1234 If you are truly interested i recommend buying a necronomicon, either the Simon one or the Tyson one, or the "necronomicon: the best weird tales", they tell you everything you need to know about this. Just please dont take it for real and get obsessed like so many other people, this is a FICTION created by lovecraft, sry for shouting, it aint for you but for the millions of morons out there.
I would however, personally, stay away from the "Necronomicon Spellbook" by Simon.
Tobolococo 5 months ago
Sounds legit. Does he have a twitter?
seasmusic 6 months ago 2
heres an funny thought. Nyarlathotep is the sumoner of the old ones and he likes to discuise as a human. meaning if we kill him we can in theroi stop the old ones from ever awaken, but since theres no way of finnding him the on way to kill him is to kill every singel person in the world, meaning end of man either way :)
void735 6 months ago
Don't want to encourage anybody to get any sillier, but L Ron Hubbard ripped off much of Scientology's fundamentals from HP Lovecraft's myths. You can spend $200K to join a cult that really believes in the Old Ones, or you can just have fun with them like this.
unclealand 7 months ago 3
i am waiting for you to mock me. yet the feeling in your mind will develop.. hehehehe
AI2flesh 10 months ago
@AI2flesh
Lame.
TheLoukku 9 months ago
hehehehe i am.. hehehehe you wanna talk to me, blog with me... fuckface. come! and let me give you new dreams. sweet kiss. i might be a little circle of black, but i have a range depht of destroying stars. so come into my realm and take place as the used and the damned.
AI2flesh 10 months ago
bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hehehehehe
AI2flesh 10 months ago
i own nyar.... cuz he hates radiant light heh!
AI2flesh 11 months ago
@AI2flesh ONLY as the Haunter. lol
DahakTzimisce 10 months ago
Can't wait for Azathoth to give me the go ahead so I can finally have some real entertainment and rip you mortal beings worlds to shreds and scatter the remnants to the cosmic winds.
Gonna be SOOOO much fun, just wait and see! ^_^
DahakTzimisce 11 months ago 32
@DahakTzimisce Save some for me. (;,;)
AvatarofCthulhu 11 months ago
@AvatarofCthulhu But of course. (^,,,^)
DahakTzimisce 10 months ago
@DahakTzimisce ...you know the (cosmic torrents) rule: if you indeed RIP ...please SEED!
;)
Bruscarful 9 months ago
@DahakTzimisce
Said the mortal that calls itself "Tzimisce" ...
Suuuure suuuure....
Nurgle1989 6 months ago
@Nurgle1989 This is merely one of many mask worn to keep you adorable little insects busy chasing shadows as my plans continue elsewhere. As expected, it seems to have worked. ^_^
DahakTzimisce 5 months ago
@DahakTzimisce ....but that's part of our plan, you see.
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tallman3132 5 months ago
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@DahakTzimisce I wonder if just as many "people" are waiting to defend this realm as there are waiting to destroy it?
tallman3132 5 months ago
Nyarlathotep is my fav character from Ctulhu mythos.
He uses deception, manipulation, illusions etc...
Why would you use your brute force to kill 2 people when you can just convince one to kill the other and then yourself.
PhreakStep 1 year ago 2
How is nyarlathotep any different from Jesus?
I mean bible was written as a fictional story by someone too.
So in that sense it would be kewl if we had real lovecraft religion :D
Find a very good magician that creates macabre, shoc and bizzare illusions (stoping his pulse, bloody tears, flies from mouth, turning liquid in something else etc...) put him in 3rd world countries and let him start his cult of nyarlathothep and peopel will believe in that.
Hell this might work in US too :D
PhreakStep 1 year ago
@PhreakStep Sounds fun. Want to help me build a temple?
JBlakens 1 month ago
I love Lovercraft's creations!
MrJustinArt 1 year ago
ae se tiver algun brasileiro ae, pode me dizer oq fala na narrativa?vlw
lucarionkiller 1 year ago
I used to ONLY know the great old ones now I know there are so many more it makes my head hurt and I want things back to normal but I guess thats the thing about Lovecraft there is no going back
WereWolf646 1 year ago
you'll just have a difficult time understanding their motivation and minds. It isn't like evil cackling. It's difficult to comprehend because you'd never want or experience that. They'll help you get back if you're lost by telling you how to motivate yourself back into your body, but I think they're beyond us in mind, not appearing to us in forms understood by us, perhaps annoyed by our happy thoughts like ours their dark ones.
returnoftheramble3 1 year ago
I think if you wanna read good storys of nyarlathotep and cthulhu, you shoul read the GENESIS trilogy by wolfgang hohlbein. its about people on a ship and they get attacked by cthulhu and other elders. its really good
evilknevil14 1 year ago
okay so if credo kills this guy the achen one will not wake upp..alright... not to hard
void735 1 year ago
In fact, HPL had a huge esoteric library from his father,
he also knew (like tolkien!) numerous ancient languages
very young, Despite the fact he dislike superstition and fanatism
I'm sure he found some kind of revelation,
maybe in his book or in his dreams
Anyway, anybody who had read most of his wrirings
cannot deny that there something there...
Like some things in the british museum??! ;)
MidnightatMidian 1 year ago
@MidnightatMidian Well, when you think about it, much of the mythos is based on ancient deities anyway.
Cthulhu could be seen as a mix of Tiamat and Leviathan/The Kraken.
Chaugnar Faughn perhaps a take on the indian deity (can't remember the name, is it Vishnu?)
I mean, Dagon is actually an ancient Babylonian God.
So yes, there is something there, but whether any of it's real? Perhaps, or it could be the ravings of a man not in sound mind or just fiction. Either way, it's damn good reading :).
Grigeral 1 year ago
@Grigeral Actually i think that chtuluu for hpl referred more about atlantis.
Some things that some ancient civilisation had done very wrong,
like summoning some evil deity from another dimension..!
Which lead to the destruction of their continent.
Lovecraft must be read carefully,
completely i mean!
Some of the answers can be found in some rare fiction that he wrote.
There is a poetic view about the orinic description of HPL
that was never in derleth works,
MidnightatMidian 1 year ago
@Grigeral And as far as i know ,
DAgon was a titan from the greek mythology,
one of the son of neptune,
the god of the water for the greek ;)
MidnightatMidian 1 year ago
@MidnightatMidian - Dagon is influenced by a Babylonian / Sumerian (one of the two) water deity. The child of Neptune that you're probably thinking of is the Kraken (or at least the Clash of the Titans depiction of it.)
4DFilmz 1 year ago
@4DFilmz Just don't try to appear clever,
read back your greek mythology and go to bed
The babylonians gods were seven
and none of them was called dagon
MidnightatMidian 1 year ago
@4DFilmz And please don't try to mix films and mythology,
thanks
MidnightatMidian 1 year ago
if we kill him we will be safe yes?
paraniodchris2 1 year ago
@paraniodchris2 Pretty sure the point of the Cthulhu mythos is that humanity stands no chance against the horrors of the cosmos and Nyarlahotep is just the tip of the iceberg.
ArkhanNightman 1 year ago
@ArkhanNightman I wouldn't say that Nyarlathotep is the tip of the iceberg. In himself, Nyarlathotep is the messenger to the Outer Gods, in some tales he is hinted at actually being one himself.
If you look at it in true fashion, Nyarlathoteps existence would be far more dangerous than that of Cthulhu, I mean sure, Cthulhu would eat a whole bunch of people, but Nyarlathotep has 998 destructive forms and a 999th which spreads deceipt, corruption and chaos.
I'd guess he's a bulk of the iceberg.
Grigeral 1 year ago
@Grigeral
Except the outer gods themselves can destroy all existence with a thought. Sure, Nyarly is strong and all, but he is definitely the tip of the iceberg compared to Azathoth and the others.
TheFingerbuns 1 year ago
@TheFingerbuns I agree with Azathoth yes. However, Nyarlathotep is the servant of Azathoth, it doesn't state anything other than that.
As for the other Outer Gods, tbh, I don't know what to accept as real canon for that... After all, Lovecraft is all I consider to be 'true' mythos... And he barely even described Azathoth, let alone the others.
In fact, I think shub's only mentioned in passing in 1 or 2 stories. I prefer his way of putting the mythos in the background rather than the fore.
Grigeral 1 year ago 2
Great
bissolis 1 year ago
bAL SHAGGOTH-bAL SHAGGOTH-ALL HAIL TO THE GREAT ONES.
mavericstud 1 year ago
my master :)
swedichboy1000 1 year ago
gigim xul re aga they don´t excist muhhahahaahahhahahah yet some still this day today talking about roman seas...
AI2flesh 1 year ago
Nyarlathotep , the soul and messenger of Azathoth
radio667 1 year ago
@EarthFireWaterAirSou
........the necranomacon.........
Jason9992fromroblox 1 year ago
hmm, i never heard of these "gods" so far, except Cthulu but i didnt know where it came from,
But now i think I'll have to start reading after these :)
Anyone can tell me wich is the first book? Or wich book should i start with?
EarthFireWaterAirSou 1 year ago
nice video, good stories
kevinhardy 2 years ago
Well if you take a quick glimpse on the lyrics of Metallica ''The thing that should not be'' mid-verse, I guess, Nyarlathotep's said to be this crawling chaos wreaking havoc upon earth.
JamesWyndorf 2 years ago
It is indeed Nyarlathotep mentioned in The Thing That Should Not Be. Although the song in general is about the mythos as a whole I believe :)
Grigeral 2 years ago
Careful what you´r writing nyarlathotep may be reading.
AlexCrazyHand 2 years ago 61
you're
vegetto14 1 year ago
@AlexCrazyHand Indeed I am... Amusing...
DahakTzimisce 11 months ago 5
nyarlathotep IS created by lovecraft! he is also known as "the crawling chaos" and personifies the soul of azatoth. he is active and walks the earth in the guise of a human being, he has many different forms he can switch in...
scheissholgerassi 2 years ago
Jackfrost, wasn't Azathoth a HP creation? I'm pretty sure he's mentioned as a god in The Haunter of the Dark.
Noxeverto 2 years ago
Yes Azathoth was an HP Creation.
MrScorn 2 years ago 2
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Tachyon55555 2 years ago
you can't c it but i can see it
NeutralDice 2 years ago
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Tachyon55555 2 years ago
there is no such thing as gods or divinity within lovecrafts cthulu mythos. there very point of there exsistances is that they are simply aliens that are so far beyond us merely trying to comprehend there very existence will drive you mad. it wasn't untill after lovecraft died and derllth got his hands on love craft works that he declared the great old ones gods and had them face off in epic battle against the elder gods from the dream cycle stories that the great old ones were considered gods.
jackfrost1986 2 years ago 8
@jackfrost1986 alien's have physical bodies. These have moved beyond the need for such things. speak not what you do not understand.
mrboylez 1 year ago
@mrboylez Even though something does not need a physical form, it doesn't mean that they're somekind of ''gods'' who should be worshipped, it only means that they are so far beyond in they're evolution than physical beings that they do not need they're bodies anymore. YOU speak not what you do not understand.
AJ2987 1 year ago
@AJ2987
HPL left it ambiguous as to what they were. you certainly can't explain Azathoth or Yog-Sothoth that way; beings coterminous with time and space itself (sounds pretty god-like to me). so what, they somehow "evolved" to be the center of all that exists? Also, how do you explain the mystical and sometimes downright magical characteristics that the Old Ones share, even in HPL's writing? Sure, you can make some argument that "spells" and "chants" are really somehow scientific, but cmon....
storksforever2000 1 year ago
@jackfrost1986 What is divinity and godhood if not simply to be vastly superior to and possess far greater ability than others?
DahakTzimisce 11 months ago 6
Hey how are the rest of you doing? Hope your well. If your a fan of H.P good stuff if not why comment? If you know anything about him comment if not go read the stuff you like.
Gazthefunky 2 years ago
how did Lovecraft think of this shit? Its so eery, Lovecraft himself was a madman. I think that he was saying something
geminighost3 2 years ago
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read his actual short stories, he actually wasn't a very good author. His creations were actually beyond his capacity to right a good story for them. Call of Cthulu, I heard so much about Lovecraft, looked up his monster, learned that others wrote most of what we think of today after he died, and then found a book of Lovecraft's actual works, read this story...and was utterly disapointed in it. I assume for his time it was ground breaking for horror, and his creatures left good visuals.
TheRhuen 2 years ago
The Cthulhu stuff is highly overrated. That stuff was fun for him and his writer friends. Check out Herbert West-Reanimator. It was written with glee! The Cthulhu Mythos stories aren't very well regarded as fine literature, they just tied horror and fantasy. Lovecraft strayed when he tried to emulate Lord Dunsany, whom he idolized. His classic horror stuff is prolific. I love Lovecrafts writing.
Jenga666 2 years ago
Well, he started off his career emulating Lord Dunsany didn't he? Then he moved onto what is now considered the Cthulhu Mythos.
I would say that most of it it could be regarding as fine literature. I mean, he can convey across the horror of what the person is going through without even describing the creature bar a few vague descriptions.
I see it that any author who can make me break out in goosebumps with minimal detail of the said horror, must be good at his work.
Grigeral 2 years ago
As I recall Lord Dunsany and Arthur Machen were two big influences on Lovecraft, Machen and his concept of "cosmic horror" in such stories as 'The Great God Pan' were a part of the foundation of what Lovecraft would make famous with his creation of The Cthulhu Mythos.
cha5 2 years ago
Both correct and incorrect.
Lord Dunsany did indeed inspire some of Lovecrafts work, but it was only really on his earlier work. I believe it was up until those done after the Dreamquest of Unknown Kaddath.
I was however unaware of the Arthur Machen influence. In fact, I had not heard of him so I'll be sure to look him up.
also, a point of interest if you are unaware. The mythos was not solely his creation, but that of multiple authors in the late 1800s. Another was August Derleth.
Grigeral 2 years ago
Well Derleth certainly was responsible for marketing the Cthulhu Mythos, without Derleth we certainly would never have had Arkham House and Lovecraft would never have seen print in anything ourtside of the pulps.
As to Arthur Machen, Lovecraft cited him as an influence "There is in Machen an ectasy of fear that all other living men are too obtuse or timid to capture"
Machin was one of the creators of the concept of cosmic horror and you might want to check out TGGP and The White People.
cha5 2 years ago
@Grigeral Well Derleth tried to reach lovecraft, he was an
"amateur" writer, and a good friend of lovecraft,
he tried fiction and integrated the cthulhu myth
in his writings.
Lovecraft had to rewrite some of derleth stories.
MidnightatMidian 1 year ago
@MidnightatMidian I don't know much of Derleths work, but I must say i do prefer it when the mythos is in the background. When the mythos is thrust into the main focus of the story, it loses its charm.
After all, the more focus it has, the more description it has. The more description it has, the less terrifying something is.
Take The Colours From Outer Space. To describe them as shining spheres that drain life, like in the CoC rpg is physical, but to describe them as coterminous flashes
Grigeral 1 year ago
His misery was a driving force for him. His life fell apart when he moved to New York with his wife.
Jenga666 2 years ago
Well that's marriage for ya.
jomacdoom13 2 years ago 3
narylyotep must have disguised itselh as hitler, stalin ect ect
Skinnyoompalumpa 2 years ago
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Gay
Gazthefunky 2 years ago
*falls over laughing* Yog-Sothoth is...wel, I'm not going to say...suffice, you wouldn't recognize him...and Markis2bi4...you were right about them taking different forms...although, they're not GODS...they're Animas...beings of significant power and species that keep a certain aspect of reality in line with the rest...there's one for Chaos, pain, fear, life, love...anything you could possibly imagine...
happyindifference 2 years ago
I thought Nyarlathotep was a Pharoah......he doesnt look like a Pharoah.
:P
SonOfSkorm 2 years ago
his avatar was said to "look like a pharoah"
in that he appeared to humans as an olive skinned man in a suit
ghostrj 2 years ago
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Tachyon55555 2 years ago
yog sothoth is still the greatest god
Itachi20x 2 years ago
Well, since these beings are god's, they'd most likely take on the form(s) of which our minds can comprehend without going mad... I think.
Markis2bi4 2 years ago 2
I feel Nyarlathotep's presence everyday at work.
Eydu128 2 years ago 4
Don't let your boss find out.
Antiks72 2 years ago
The first 2 pictures of Nyarlathotep look like a man-worm of some sort.....
How do we know how Nyarlathotep might have looked?
MoriKAshi 2 years ago
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because ur an obvious fag
PenguinDemon01 2 years ago
I'm sorry. What does my sexuality have to do with this. I was just making a comparison between a worm and Nyarlathotep . Nothing less. Nothing more.
MoriKAshi 2 years ago 4
from how he was originally depicted.
ghostrj 2 years ago
Ah ok.
I still have to read a LOT of H.P.
That is why I asked. Haven't read much by Lovecraft.
MoriKAshi 2 years ago
You should...just keep in mind that his stories were written about 100 years ago, he has a huge, although somewhat archaic, vocabulary, and he had a xenophobic (some would call it racist) view of things. I still can't help but love his stuff.
truelove1330 2 years ago
From reading the story i get the picture if we actually saw him will not comprehend his body. i was thinking more of a gaint leech/humanoid thing
darkness442003 2 years ago
right on
execute05 2 years ago
ok this totally amazed me in it's beauty!!
sheilatx 2 years ago 3
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who cares? It's only a story written by a tormented man. I can't understand why so many people consider all this stuff real. Lovecraft had a wonderful creativity, but he used it in the wrong way. If he was more like Tolkien, or Charles Dickens, or even like Edgar Alan Poe, he would have done much better, instead of creating stories which dumb people consider real.... oh, we, humans, still have much to learn, specially Americans.(who are said to be the dumbest of all in the nowaday world...)
aquelelah 2 years ago
No. Stop saying this. He employed his creativity beautifully. You don't see people following Voldemort thinking he is the end of the world! This is not real-- most know that. I doubt that Lovecraft intended for people to think that this was all real.
then again...
guerrero975 2 years ago 9
lovecraft actually made comments about how if people continued to believe the things he wrote he would stop writing.
kuwabaru 2 years ago
Please clarify: If a minority of nutjobs think that Lovecraft's mythos are real, while the vast majority recognize them as fiction and enjoy them as fiction, how would that affect the quality of the stories in any way whatsoever?
Last time I checked "creating stories" is exactly what Tolkien, Poe, and Shakespeare all did.
And come off it; if every writer tried to write like Charlies Dickens, I would've stabbed my eyes out ages ago because there wouldn't be anything on Earth worth reading.
Stonegolem42 2 years ago 31
You got that right Stonegolem42! In one of my other, non-creepy fandoms, I've met at least one person who genuinely believed the things he saw on screen were real.
The fandom?
Transformers.
I'm not kidding. I wish I was, but I'm not.
Also, if I wrote like Charles Dickens, I would die. If one thing was true about the man, he could not write a decent death scene to save his life. And as death is a major part of my novels, if I was like that, I would slit my throat.
JasonLGrey 2 years ago
@Stonegolem42 actually lovecraft got the gods from his dreams, the actual reality of them communicating with him through his dreams are up for debate
BarerRudeROC 1 year ago
@BarerRudeROC Getting them from his dreams falls under "making them up" in my book.
Stonegolem42 1 year ago
@Stonegolem42 You forgot to include the Bible as fiction.
RampantWolf 1 year ago
@RampantWolf Oh HA HA HA!! Jesus man can we go one vid without someone bashing religion so callously!? We're here for Horror, not for who's wrong, who's right and whether or not Azethoth is gonna destroy us all!
MadaraXIII 1 year ago 2
@Stonegolem42 It is as real as any other story told without scientific evidence to back it up, for instance The Bible, The Qu'Ran, The Torah and Talmud, or any Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist, or Confucianist documents.
musselman86 1 year ago 3
@musselman86 Okay.
Stonegolem42 1 year ago
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@musselman86 None of these things can be proven, but they can't be disproven either. It is, and always has been a case of what you think, not what you know.
mahony323 1 year ago
@musselman86 Although Cthulhu is at least straightforward in his motives unlike say the teachings of God or Jesus or Allah or Buddah etc which offer things like salvation for the soul :(, spiritual enlightenment :P, contentment:/, or monetary gain$ (as in the case of TV and internet fundamentalists) or promising you an an eternal afterlife with any number of virgins if you kill yourself and take non believers with you :P Whereas Cthulhu just wants to save you and planet earth as a dinner course.
cha5 1 year ago 2
@Stonegolem42 youre right. It doesnt affect the stories at all. Nut jobs though, how are they any different than the adherants of the thousands of fictional religious books out there? I find infact that they would be better off as the gods of the mythos are at most non-empathetic which something that advanced would probably be if it existed.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago 2
@Stonegolem42 amen
6VampireHeart6 1 year ago
@Stonegolem42
how whuld you know that these gods of old isnt real
TheSerenede 1 year ago
@TheSerenede When you is put it like that, I guess you is right, how *does* I know that they don't real?
Stonegolem42 1 year ago
Tolkien was a fucking theif ,poe was a drug addict and dickens was boreing . Lovecraft has had way more influence then any of them!
tikiux5 2 years ago
Lovecraft said himself that he doesn't believe in occultism.
Eydu128 2 years ago 2
Then again, Lovecraft really did have an awesome cult fallowing, and really these are awesome stories. I hate when people take this stuff to far though, claiming it is real. Hahaha... Well all of this is fake. But either way, this is a really awesome universe.
SuperRob45 2 years ago
Ia Old Ones!!
IVomitOnYourGod 2 years ago
Obama is Nyarlathotep.
allgoraro 2 years ago 9
IA OBAMA! IA OBAMA!
amerigovespucci 2 years ago 11
You are funny as hell.
Eydu128 2 years ago 2
And Sarah Palin is Azathoth, it's not a coincidence: She is as dumb and insane as the mighty Sultan God!
7omnia7 2 years ago 11
No doubt!
allgoraro 2 years ago 2
Hah! nice
cthulhlu 2 years ago 3
@allgoraro Obama is not Nyarlathotep, Obama is Azathoth, Polosi is Nyarlathotep in the way that when Azathoth awakens He will put it to Nyarlathotep to destroy the universe.
Nightshift10000 1 year ago
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you are aware this is all bullshit made by a writer. Have fun guys.
RapidNova 2 years ago
Just like the bible and jesus then?
And if you wanna take that coment as this is for real, or jesus is fake. Thats up to you.
Have a good nights sleep now ya hear ^^
Nuuboat 2 years ago 25
Lol, im sorry i really dont mean to offend you, but it really is bs. Oh well, if im worng ill only get tortured for eternity ^^
RapidNova 2 years ago
there is significant historical proof of a jew named jesuse gathing a following and dieing on a cross and a lot of the old testimated has been proven acurate ilke all the history of the jewish people and stuff
the8lbfish 2 years ago
Wow you're retarded... of course we know it's fiction. Since when does a story have to be true to be enjoyable?
shinstabber 2 years ago 6
I wasnt saying that.. Some people beleive this shit is totally real, and form some weird cults and shit.. I was syaing its bs since its all made up. I wasnt saying it has to be true for ppl to enjoy it.. Its obvious stories dont have to be true.. Next time you want to call someone retarded, try to understand what theyre syaing first -.-
RapidNova 2 years ago
as far as you know its not real. There are things of different realities and dimensions that we couldn't even begin to understand. Im not saying it is or isn't real but you never know.
ERaver2020 2 years ago
Well, we cant really find a reality without first understanding what it is now can we? Your point is now moot.
zomglolretahoy 2 years ago
do some research and u may become shocked at what u find
killswitch489 2 years ago
Research? What like readin a fictional book research?
There is no evidence for this shit. The teor isnt even sound. Its just bullshit lol
RapidNova 2 years ago
Reading books =//= research.
zomglolretahoy 2 years ago
nice video
kevinhardy 2 years ago
He likes to give powers and powerful weapons to humans just to watch them distroy themselves with them.
wesleyfilms 2 years ago
Yes, of all things related to the Old Ones, Nyarlathotep is the most likely to interact with humans, though he rarely reveals himself as such. His motivations are closest to comprehensible by a human mind, usually finding amusement in seeing humanity suffer under its own ignorance, and watching them squirm as they realize the terror to be unleashed upon them.
FearlessSon 2 years ago
i thought Nayarlathotep was a "man in black"
but where did you get the episodes from? this is freaky crap!
smp156 2 years ago
He's got a thousand or so forms, so he can be a man in black, and a horrible shambling terror in the dark. Heck, he can be his own baseball team if he wants.
Zikiel 2 years ago 10
LOL that was hilarious.
KingPiccolOwned 2 years ago
does any one else agre that shamblers look like and sound like zombies hmm
243spark 3 years ago
Screw Azathoth, If I could be anyone of these Mythos Gods I would want to be Nyarlathotep.
Nightshift10000 3 years ago 3
you are aware that nyarlathotep raped azathoths' daughter barbelzoa. causing her to jump from her throne at his side into the material plane causing her to become the earth itself and thats the reason azathoth is the blind deaf idiot god and nyarlathotep is the wandering darkness
Melchiah01 2 years ago
I can live with that, besides I thought that that whole affair happened after azathoth became the blind deaf idiot god and the whole situation that caused that to happen to azathoth was that He was caught in a war in another dimension.
Nightshift10000 2 years ago
I try not to think about it lol
So was he in one of his human discises when he did it?
wesleyfilms 2 years ago
Azathoth was always the blind idiot God.
MasterAsra 2 years ago 3
Nyarlathotep - The personification of telepathic energy.
Nightshift10000 3 years ago 5
anyone know what hes saying in the beginning i cant understand it
XxLabyrinthpumkinxX 3 years ago
"To Nyarlathotep must all things be told, for he is the messenger between the spheres and the traveler between the realms of the living and the dead. He shall summon forth the ancient ones and wake them from their deathly slumber, then shall the elder signs be shattered and the lords of darkness be released."
Bakilas 3 years ago
Thank You sooo much!!!
XxLabyrinthpumkinxX 3 years ago
I think its name is pronounced
NEE-AR-HA-AL-THO-TEP.
binarynightmare 3 years ago
nee-ar-la-tho-tep
Makonu2 3 years ago
You sure? I could have sworn there was a silent 'h' in there... Ah, it doesn't matter, thanks anyway!
binarynightmare 3 years ago
just going by lovecraft's other pronunciations like Azathoth is az-ah-thoth and yog-sothoth is yog-so-thoth. i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure you pronounce the th.
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