It takes a special kind of person to create an alternate universe populated by malevolent sea-creature gods.
It takes even more special people to canonize and expand upon that world.
Scholars and fans of Lovecrafts work have attempted to subcategorize the gods within the Cthulhu Mythos.
Phillip A. Schreffler , who wrote the H.P.
All of these gods predate humanity, and they have no reverence for human life.
Many of The Great Old Ones are imprisoned on various planets.
Human emotion and anxiety is depicted as being ultimately inconsequential in the grand scheme of Lovecrafts bleak world.
There is some question now about how rigidly Lovecraft constructed this world as a cohesive universe.
Some suggest that Lovecraft had fully fleshed out his alternate world prior to writing.
Regardless, Lovecrafts writing is evocative, and descriptions of the monsters is always amazingly evocative.
The other writers who have sought to expand Lovecrafts universe have made meaningful contributions, too!
Here are a look at 10 notable deities within the Cthulhu Mythos.
The god looks like a fierce, old man with gray hair and a long beard.
He also appears in the story The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
The character was introduced in Lovecrafts poem Nyarlathotep, published in 1920.
Azathoth is said to float in the center of the universe, perpetually kept in a state of slumber.
Less powerful gods lull Azathoth to sleep with cosmic drums and flutes.
The deity resembles a sort of demonic cloud formation.
It can even use its black alien blood to suffocate people!
Sound sort of like David Ickes theories of alternate reptilian races controlling the universe?
Ygolonac is like the Marquis de Sade of the Cthulhu Mythos.
He is the god of perversions and sinister impulses.
Like Voldemort, sometimes Ygolonac is summoned by the mere utterance of his name.
Glaaki
Glaaki is said to resemble a large slug with long metallic spines.
Glaaki also has eyes at the end of long tentacles, which function sort of telescopes on a submarine.
According to legend, Glaaki first traveled to earth inside a meteor.
Hes extremely dangerous he can kill victims with a highly toxic fluid that he can inject with his spines.
The fluid is so powerful that its capable of turning the victim into a zombie slave.
The character was created by James Ambuehl, and is written about extensively in Ambuehls story Correlated Contents.
He is worshiped by ghouls.
Kate Voss is an entertainment blogger with GetDirectTV.org.
