Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos
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The following tables and lists feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos
, that are often shared between works within that fictional setting.
The Cthulhu Mythos were originally created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
in his horror short stories, although the term itself was coined later by August Derleth
. Many writers, both during Lovecraft's lifetime and after, have added stories and elements to the Mythos. There is no central co-ordination of these stories nor any oversight of the Cthulhu Mythos in general. Becoming part of the Mythos can be based on personal opinion and inclusion of these elements.
The Great Old Ones are powerful, ancient creatures worshipped by deranged human cult
s. Many of them are made of an unearthly material with properties unlike normal matter. A Great Old One's influence is often limited to the planet
where it dwells. If it is based on a planet outside the solar system
, it can only extend its influence to Earth when the star
of its planetary system
is in the night sky. In such cases, the help of cultists performing various rituals may be required.
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The Outer Gods have unlimited influence, unlike the Great Old Ones, and function on a cosmic scale. They include a subgroup known as the Lesser Outer Gods, or Other Gods.
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The Elder Gods oppose the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones. Many consider them to be non-Lovecraftian, because they introduce a good versus evil dichotomy into the cosmic indifference of Lovecraft's fiction. However, others argue that these beings have no more concern for human notions of morality than the beings they oppose, and that humanity and the human world are beneath their regard.
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Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...
, that are often shared between works within that fictional setting.
The Cthulhu Mythos were originally created by writer H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
in his horror short stories, although the term itself was coined later by August Derleth
August Derleth
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
. Many writers, both during Lovecraft's lifetime and after, have added stories and elements to the Mythos. There is no central co-ordination of these stories nor any oversight of the Cthulhu Mythos in general. Becoming part of the Mythos can be based on personal opinion and inclusion of these elements.
Overview
Tables appearing under these entries are organized as follows:- Name. This is the commonly accepted name of the being or mythos element.
- Epithet(s), Other name(s). This field lists any epithets or alternate names. These are names sometimes mentioned in books of arcane literatureCthulhu Mythos arcane literatureMany fictional works of arcane literature appear in the Cthulhu Mythos. The main literary purpose of these works is to explain how characters within the tales come by occult or esoteric knowledge that is unknown to the general populace. However, in some cases the works themselves serve as an...
, but may also be the names preferred by cults. - Description. This entry briefly summarizes the being or mythos element.
- References. This field lists the sources in which the being or mythos element makes a significant appearance or otherwise receives important mention. A simple two-letter code is used—the key to the codes is found hereCthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliographyThe following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles Cthulhu Mythos deities, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu Mythos biographies, Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies.-Index table 1:-Index table...
. If a code appears in bold, this means that the reference introduces the being or mythos element.
Great Old Ones
(includes a table listing all the Great Old Ones in the mythos)The Great Old Ones are powerful, ancient creatures worshipped by deranged human cult
Cult
The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...
s. Many of them are made of an unearthly material with properties unlike normal matter. A Great Old One's influence is often limited to the planet
Planet
A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
where it dwells. If it is based on a planet outside the solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
, it can only extend its influence to Earth when the star
Star
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
of its planetary system
Planetary system
A planetary system consists of the various non-stellar objects orbiting a star such as planets, dwarf planets , asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and cosmic dust...
is in the night sky. In such cases, the help of cultists performing various rituals may be required.
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Outer Gods
(includes a table listing all the Outer Gods in the mythos)The Outer Gods have unlimited influence, unlike the Great Old Ones, and function on a cosmic scale. They include a subgroup known as the Lesser Outer Gods, or Other Gods.
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Elder Gods
(includes a table listing all the Elder Gods in the mythos)The Elder Gods oppose the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones. Many consider them to be non-Lovecraftian, because they introduce a good versus evil dichotomy into the cosmic indifference of Lovecraft's fiction. However, others argue that these beings have no more concern for human notions of morality than the beings they oppose, and that humanity and the human world are beneath their regard.
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Great Ones
The Great Ones are the so-called "gods" of the Dreamlands, but they are not as powerful as the Great Old Ones and are not even as intelligent as most humans. However, they are protected by the Outer Gods, especially Nyarlathotep.----
Other supernatural beings
| Name | Epithet(s), Other name(s) |
Description | References Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography The following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles Cthulhu Mythos deities, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu Mythos biographies, Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies.-Index table 1:-Index table... |
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| Alala | |
Being made of living sound that dwells in the Gulf of S'glhuo; Possibly unimaginably hideous. | PL, WP |
| Beast of Averoigne | |
A seemingly supernatural being which is recorded as having descended upon the French principality of Averoigne, particularly Vyones and Ximes, from an ominous red comet which appeared in the sky in 1369. It has no true body of its own, but needs to take possession of the body of another to feed, transfiguring and horribly reshaping the host's body. Resulting form is that of a pitch-black semi-humanoid figure, surrounded by a hellish nimbus of changing, fiery light, dimly revealing its shape. The limbs sway and writhe like boneless serpents, and grow sharp, hard claws. The neck similarly extends to a serpentine length and flexibilty, whereas the head turns flat and reptilian, earless and noseless. | BA |
| Broodlings of Eihort | Gestalt Servants of the God of the Labyrinth | The Broodlings of Eihort are gestalt beings made up of millions of the tiny white spidery brood of the Great Old One Eihort. A broodling looks like a deathly pale, totally hairless human. | rpg |
| Brown Jenkin | A mysterious rat-like creature with a human-like face. The being was said to be the familiar of Keziah Mason. Probably a Rat Thing - see below. | DW, PY | |
| Desh (Lesser and Greater) | Desh is the name given by Hyperboreans to those creatures living in a near but alternate dimension. Existing in many different forms, these creatures float through the invisible spaces around us, as unaware of our presence as we are of theirs. Although the varieties of Desh may be unlimited, only two forms are described (Lesser and Greater). Although of solid matter, they are semi-transparent, continually fading in and out of view. | rpg | |
| Droom-Avista | The Jester | True form not described, but likely a great demon to be invoked as a genie | JD |
| The Dunwich Horror The Dunwich Horror "The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales . It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts... |
Son of Yog-Sothoth, Bugg-Shaggog | An invisible egg-shaped monster of a gelatinous consistence, covered in tentacled suckers and "feet like hogsheads", with a mostly human face. | DH The Dunwich Horror "The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales . It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts... , LC |
| Father Dagon and Mother Hydra | |
Both appear as abnormally large Deep One Deep One The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"... s. |
DA, DB, RD, SI The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November-December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical.... |
| Fthaggua | Lord of Ktynga | Appears as a bluish ball of energy. Fthaggua is the lord and leader of the fire vampires, and dwells with them and their god Cthugha Cthugha Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, the creation of August Derleth. He first appeared in Derleth's short story "The House on Curwen Street" .-Description:... on or near the star Fomalhaut Fomalhaut Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the sky. Fomalhaut can be seen low in the southern sky in the northern hemisphere in fall and early winter evenings. Near latitude 50˚N, it sets around the time Sirius rises, and does not... . |
FV, HG |
| Fishers from Outside | The Fishers from Outside are much more avian in appearance than shantaks, though having one leg and a glaring Cyclopean eye and hideous, hooked, fang-lined beak. They are the servitors of the obscure Great Old One Groth-Golka, acting as proxies for their sire by accepting human sacrifices and worship by cultists. Fishers brood in caverns on the Moon and are also sometimes connected with worship of the lunar Great Old One Mnomquah. Their sire is the hideous Quumyagga. | FO | |
| Fosterlings of the Old Ones | The Fosterlings of the Old Ones are the mutant offspring of matings with human females and Outer Gods or Great Old Ones. Through a special ritual the Outer God or Great Old One sends a dream which reaches into the womb of a pregnant woman, altering the genetic structure of the unborn fetus. Born, the child spends many years as a normal human until one day it transforms into something more closely resembling its alien parent. |
FC | |
| The Four Horsemen of Nyarlathotep | These characters feature in the comics series Fall of Cthulhu as servitors of Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep, also known as the Crawling Chaos, is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop... and should thus be regarded as Million Favoured Ones. They are in order: Sysyphyx (The Scourge of Atlantis; she is a multi-eyed shape-shifting worm, but she may also appear as a fat, cyanotic red-headed fat woman); Gr'nuk of Volkunast (a ravenous winged demon), The Masked Mute (She appears as a young girl with innumerable masks to display her mood, since her true face has to be of indescribable horror) and Gith (Father of Pestilence,Champion of Damnation; he appears as a banded man with blue flames in place of the eyes). |
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| Fungus Vile | A kind of parasitic life form, neither really plant nor animal in nature, able to infect any organism it comes into contact with. It is suspected that this material originated on cold Yuggoth Yuggoth Yuggoth is a fictional planet in the Cthulhu Mythos. H. P. Lovecraft himself said that Yuggoth is the then newly-discovered planet Pluto. However, other writers claim that it is actually an enormous, trans-Neptunian world that orbits perpendicular to the ecliptic of the solar system.-In the... and subsequently spread through the cosmos with the mi-go Mi-go The Mi-go are a race of extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft and others. The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness" , taking up a reference to 'What fungi sprout in Yuggoth' in his sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth... . |
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| Gnoph-Keh | |
Appears as huge gnophkeh Gnophkeh The Gnophkehs are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are humanoid cannibals described as being covered in coarse, matted hair with large protruding ears and proboscidean noses. They originally lived in Hyperborea and worshiped the Great Old One Rhan-Tegoth. But Rhan-Tegoth eventually... — possibly an avatar of Rhan-Tegoth or an independent entity. |
HM |
| The High Priest Not to Be Described High Priest Not to Be Described The High Priest Not to Be Described is a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. He first appeared in the Lovecraft short story "Celephaïs" .-Summary:... |
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Humanoid wearing a silken mask. | CE Celephaïs "Celephaïs" is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow.The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in H. P... , DQ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It was completed in 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest to feature protagonist Randolph Carter, and can thus be considered a culminating... |
| Knygathin Zhaum | |
Appears as a hairless, quasi-humanoid Voormi Voormis The Voormis are a fictional race of cave-dwelling humanoids who worship Tsathoggua.-Description:The Voormis are the primary focus of a "posthumous collaboration" short story by Lin Carter after Clark Ashton Smith's death, The Scroll of Morloc... ; Final form of no discernible species. |
FT, TM |
| K'thun (female) and Noth-Yidik (male) |
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Abhorrent, malodorous beings whose mating spawned the Hounds of Tindalos. | HM, MT |
| The Lurker in the Star Pool | One of the Million Favored Ones of Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep, also known as the Crawling Chaos, is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop... , possibly one of the Outer God’s offspring. For aeons it has dwelled in the Star Pools, and today is in the servitude of the Floating Horror cult. Highly mobile, the Star Pool Lurker has large membranous wings for flying and webbed appendages for swimming or walking on land. The creature's full appearance is confusing to behold as it appears to be a mass of multiple independent wriggling and squirming monstrosities. |
AP | |
| Magnum Innominandum | Great Not-to-Be-Named, The Nameless Mist, N'yog-Sothep, Milk of the Void | According to H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.... , this being is the spawn of Azathoth Azathoth Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. Its epithets include Nuclear Chaos, the Daemon Sultan and the Blind Idiot God.-Inspiration:... (making it on par with the Magnum Tenebrosum and Cxaxukluth) and is associated with, and possibly the progenitor of, Yog-Sothoth Yog-Sothoth Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity of the fictional Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Yog-Sothoth's name was first mentioned in his novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward... . It is also associated with Hastur Hastur Hastur is a fictional entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd" as a benign god of shepherds. Robert W... . Little is known about this god, but it is considered to be extremely dangerous to sorcerers, hence its title "the unnameable" (archaic terminology, meaning not to be summoned or ritually named in an incantation. |
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| Million Favored Ones | |
Beings said to be Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep, also known as the Crawling Chaos, is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop... 's spawn. |
MF, WD The Whisperer in Darkness "The Whisperer in Darkness" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to "The Colour Out of Space" , it is a blend of horror and science fiction... |
| Mlandoth and Mril Thorion | The Source, The One |
Unknown. | WY |
| Mr. Shiny | Mr. Shiny (or Albert Shiny) is a shoggoth Shoggoth A shoggoth is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was mentioned in passing in sonnet XX of H.P... lord and an unusually intelligent and purposeful one, capable of controlling his body shape so as to pass for human. Controlling his body in this manner requires continuous mental effort. |
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| Our Ladies of Sorrow | |
Our Ladies of Sorrow-or the Three Mothers-are three powerful entities, and three of Nyarlathotep’s Million Favoured Ones. They are: Mater Lachrymarum ("Our Lady of Tears"), the eldest, followed by Mater Suspiriorum ("Our Lady of Sighs") and finally the youngest Mater Tenebrarum ("Our Lady of Darkness"). They have inspired many legends, including that of the triple goddess, the fates, the gorgons, and Shakespeare’s three weird sister-daughters of darkness (witches). |
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| Pharol the Black | |
Appears as a black, fanged demon Demon call - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism... with tentacles instead of arms. |
AG, HY? |
| The Shaping Tree | |
A hideous tree-like horror with branches like rat's tails and weird pustules. It is able to transform human male victims into jelly amorphous vectors of strange broodlings. The Shaping Tree is located in Australia and is likely related to Shub-Niggurath Shub-Niggurath Shub-Niggurath, often associated with the phrase “The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”, is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft... . |
FS3 |
| Sho-Gath | The God-Box | A smoky entity with the travesty of a human face, entrapped into a box. | GO |
| Sss'haa | |
Leader of the serpent people of Valusia. | HG, TH, VY |
| Ubb | Father of Worms | Leader of the planarian-like Yuggs. It is a large aquatic, chthonian-like entity, pale gray and slug-like with a large suckermouth full of horn-like teeth and ringed with tentacles. Ubb dwells in the cold fastness of the Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World... with the rest of its race. The yuggs are said to guard their god, the Great Old One Zoth-Ommog, whose tomb, legend tells, lies at the bottom of a abyssal trench near the island of Ponape Ponape Ponape may refer to:*Pohnpei, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia*Ponape , a German sailing ship... . |
OA, PI, UV, TP |
| The Five Vaeyen | |
Quintet of vulture Vulture Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains... -like statues that both guard and sequester the Great Old One Cyäegha Cyäegha Cyäegha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and first appeared in Eddy C. Bertin's short story "Darkness, My name Is" .-Summary:... |
DM |
| Wilbur Whateley | |
Mostly-human twin of the aforementioned Dunwich Horror. | DH The Dunwich Horror "The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales . It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts... , LC |
| The Worm That Walks | The Putrefied Horror | A loathsome being, looking like a human corpse decayed into tones ofgreen, black, and blue, witk dripping pieces offlesh hanging from it. Prodigious claws or talons dangle from this apparition's fingers, and from the undead monster's eye sockets stare lidless, ban, eyeballs. | rpg |
| Wuthoqquan's Bane | |
A large, shapeless beast lurking in the sewers of Commoriom. | WQ |
| Xathagorra | The Chaos Spawn | Vile, multiform creature with a vast wingspan. | CH |
| Xexanoth | Bane of Aforgomon | Unknown. | CM |
| Xiurhn | Guardian of the Dark Jewel | A slothlike, winged thing with a terrible face. | XI |
| Yegg-Ha | Lord of Nightgaunts | A huge, faceless humanoid with tiny wings. | IE, TC, WI |
| Zoth Syra & Yoth Kala | Queen of the Green Abyss | Both appear as shapeless, multi-limbed marine horror, with hypnotic beckon. The latter, Yoth Kala, also bears a whip-like appendage endowed with a single, spherical eye. | GR |
Table-a (A–F)
| Name | Description | References Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography The following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles Cthulhu Mythos deities, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu Mythos biographies, Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies.-Index table 1:-Index table... |
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| Adumbrali | Extradimensional beings that appear as orbs of darkness. | AB |
| Aihais | Humanoids from Mars Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance... . |
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| Alskali | Hairless, cyclops Cyclops A cyclops , in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead... -like hypnotic beings witk dead-gray skin and huge hands and feet. They are servants of Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep Nyarlathotep, also known as the Crawling Chaos, is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe created by H. P. Lovecraft. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop... . |
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| Antehumans | Slender, tall, gaunt proto-humans of great intelligence. | EB, SG |
| Antareans | Tall, multicolored tripod-beings with a strange crest and three eyes. They are greatly advanced space travelers with a strict caste system. | PC |
| Beings of Xiclotl | Horrifying, oddly plant-like, carnivorous giants. | IS |
| Bholes Dhole (Cthulhu Mythos) Dholes, also called bholes, are creatures described in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.Below him the ground was festering with gigantic Dholes, and even as he looked, one reared up several hundred feet and leveled a bleached, viscous end at him.... |
Gigantic, worm-like creatures that inhabit the Earth's Dreamlands. | DL, DQ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It was completed in 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest to feature protagonist Randolph Carter, and can thus be considered a culminating... |
| Blupes | Translucent, bluish, oval-shaped creatures that can float through the air. | DL |
| Brothers of Chaugnar Faugn | Beings that resemble smaller versions of Chaugnar Faugn. | HF |
| Byakhee Byakhee -Summary:There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things ... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall.—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Festival"... |
Resemble bat-like, hornet-like human corpses. | FE, GS, HC, WS |
| Cats from Saturn | Cat-like beings from the Dreamlands with abstract, multi-hued bodies. | DL, DQ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It was completed in 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest to feature protagonist Randolph Carter, and can thus be considered a culminating... |
| Cats from Uranus | Like those from Saturn, but far more hideous. | DL |
| Chakota | A hideous entity composed of dozens of human faces set into a thickly cylindrical, worm-like mass of sickly, purple-veined muscle. | rpg |
| Children of the Sphinx | Sub-cult of the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. | n/a |
| Children of the Wind | Foul entities dwelling regions susceptible to high winds. In one account, the creatures haunt a mysterious placein the desert near Syria, known only as the City of the Seven Winds. They may also be connected with [Irem]], the City of the Pillars. | SS3 |
| Chthonians Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos) Chthonians are fictional creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos. The species is the creation of Brian Lumley and was first featured in his short story "Cement Surroundings" —though the creature never made a direct appearance... (The Burrowers Beneath) |
Gigantic, squid-like worms. | BU, CS, YA |
| Colour out of space Colour out of space (species) A colour out of space is a fictional extraterrestrial in the writings of the horror fiction author H. P. Lovecraft. It first appeared in Lovecraft's short story "The Colour Out of Space" .-Description:... |
Appears as a shapeless, plastic entity glowing with the colors of an unknown spectrum. | CO The Colour Out of Space "The Colour Out of Space" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts... , CT |
| Crawling Ones (The Worms that Walk) |
Appear as humans made out of tiny worms. | FE |
| Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath | Appear as ropy, black tentacles on a pair of stumpy, hooved legs. | MK, NF |
| Deep One Deep One The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"... s |
Ocean-dwelling humanoids that appear to be half-frog and half-fish. | AW, BU, DO, GS, HC, HG, RD, SA, SI The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November-December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical.... |
| Dholes Dhole (Cthulhu Mythos) Dholes, also called bholes, are creatures described in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.Below him the ground was festering with gigantic Dholes, and even as he looked, one reared up several hundred feet and leveled a bleached, viscous end at him.... |
Gigantic, worm-like creatures. | DR, TG, WP |
| Dimensional Shamblers | Dimension Dimension In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a space or object is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus a line has a dimension of one because only one coordinate is needed to specify a point on it... -hopping humanoids with rough, leathery bodies and huge claws. |
HM |
| Doels | Tiny, extradimensional, flesh-eating creatures. | HN |
| Dwellers in the Depths | The Dwellers in the Depths are a race of truly horrible amphibious creatures who serve the Great Old Ones, particularly those associated with water: Cthulhu Cthulhu Cthulhu is a fictional character that first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P... , Dagon Dagon Dagon was originally an Assyro-Babylonian fertility god who evolved into a major northwest Semitic god, reportedly of grain and fish and/or fishing... , Hydra Hydra Hydra is the name of the Lernaean Hydra, a many-headed serpent in Greek mythology."Hydra" may also refer to:- Astronomy :* Hydra , the largest of the modern star constellations* Hydra , a satellite of Pluto... , Ythogtha and Zoth-Ommog. They appear as eyeless, bloated horrors with eight tentacular arms and four legs. In place of eyes there is only one sponge-like organ in the center of the forehead and mouth appear toothless, but endowed of tiny tentacles |
RB |
| Elder Thing Elder Thing The Elder Things are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings first appeared, although not named in H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dreams in the Witch-House"... s (Old Ones) |
Appear as five-sided, oval-shaped barrels with starfish-like appendages at each end. | AM At the Mountains of Madness At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories... , IV, PW |
| Fire vampire Fire vampire Fire vampires are fictional characters in the Cthulhu Mythos. The term refers to two distinct types of beings: the Flame Creatures of Cthugha, created by August Derleth, and the Fire Vampires of Fthaggua, created by Donald Wandrei.... s |
1. (Flame Creatures of Cthugha) Appear as tiny points of light that ignite everything they touch. | DD |
| 2. (Fire Vampires of Fthaggua) Appear as bursts of crimson lightning that set fire to sentient beings. | FV, HG | |
| Fishers from Outside | Enigmatic, prehistoric, flying race associated with Gol-goroth and the shantaks. | FO |
| Flying polyp Flying polyp A flying polyp is a member of a fictional alien race in the Cthulhu Mythos. The creature first appeared in H. P... s |
Appear as floating, semi-visible, polypous horrors capable of controlling great winds. | PW, ST The Shadow Out of Time The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by Americanhorror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories.-Plot summary:... , SY, WF |
| Formless spawn of Tsathoggua and Knygathin Zhaum | Appear as gelatinous, shape-shifting, black goo. | MO, TZ |
Table-b (G–M)
| Name | Description | References Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography The following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles Cthulhu Mythos deities, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu Mythos biographies, Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies.-Index table 1:-Index table... |
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| Ghasts | Fearsome, underground-dwelling humanoids with kangaroo-like legs that inhabit the Earth's Dreamlands. | DQ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It was completed in 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest to feature protagonist Randolph Carter, and can thus be considered a culminating... |
| Ghoul Ghoul A ghoul is a folkloric monster associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh, often classified as undead. The oldest surviving literature that mention ghouls is likely One Thousand and One Nights... s |
Corpse-eating, canine-like humanoids. | DQ, IC, PM |
| Gn'cht'tyaacht | A tree-dwelling humanoid some seven feet in height, but thin and lanky with a long pointed head, huge claws and sharp teeth. | rpg |
| Gnophkeh Gnophkeh The Gnophkehs are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are humanoid cannibals described as being covered in coarse, matted hair with large protruding ears and proboscidean noses. They originally lived in Hyperborea and worshiped the Great Old One Rhan-Tegoth. But Rhan-Tegoth eventually... |
1. Six-legged, furry, rhinoceros Rhinoceros Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia.... -like creatures with an affinity for cold climes. |
HM, LT, SM |
| 2. Hairy cannibals that once dwelt in Lomar. | PO | |
| Gnorri | Resemble mermen Merman Mermen are mythical male equivalents of mermaids – legendary creatures who have the form of a human from the waist up and are fish-like from the waist down.-Mythology:... with possibly one or two additional arms. |
SK |
| Gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath | Transmogrified, once-human cultists of Shub-Niggurath. | ML |
| Great Race of Yith Great Race of Yith The Great Race of Yith are aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. They first appeared in Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow Out of Time" . They are called the Great Race because they are the only beings to have mastered time travel... |
Resemble tall, rugose cones with four appendages: two claws, a trumpet-like limb, and a yellow, globe-like organ. | CF, PW, SO, ST The Shadow Out of Time The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by Americanhorror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories.-Plot summary:... , SY |
| Gugs | Horrifying, furry giants of the Dreamlands with a mouth that opens sideways. | DQ |
| Gyaa-Yothn | Quasi-human, rhinoceros-like quadrupeds used as beasts of burden by the denizens of K'n-yan. | MO |
| Haemophores | Small, vampiric creatures with webbed hands and feet. | DL |
| Hounds of Tindalos Hounds of Tindalos A Hound of Tindalos is a fictional creature created by Frank Belknap Long for the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. They first appeared in Long's short story "The Hounds of Tindalos" . Lovecraft mentions the creatures in his short story "The Whisperer in Darkness" .-Description:"They are lean and... |
Extradimensional horrors that can enter our universe through any three-dimensional corner. | EL, HN, MT, TC |
| Hunters from Beyond | ? | |
| Hunting Horror Hunting Horror A Hunting Horror is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The creature was first mentioned in Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath .-Description:... s |
Resemble huge, immaterial serpents with bat wings. | DQ, LT |
| Hyperboreans | A race of early pre-humans. | DS, SG, TZ, UB |
| K'n-yan, Natives of K'n-yan K'n-yan is a fictional, subterranean land in the Cthulhu Mythos. The underground realm was first described in detail in H. P. Lovecraft's revision of Zealia Bishop's "The Mound" , in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador Zamacona... |
Technologically and psychically advanced humanoids who dwell underground. | OE, MO |
| Kyresh | Vicious, wolven creatures of the Dreamlands. | YG |
| Larvae of the Outer Gods | Protean Proteus In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early sea-god, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea", whose name suggests the "first" , as protogonos is the "primordial" or the "firstborn". He became the son of Poseidon in the Olympian theogony In Greek mythology, Proteus (Πρωτεύς)... beings spawned by the Outer Gods. |
DQ |
| Lamp-Efts | Resemble small, flying iguana Iguana Iguana is a herbivorous genus of lizard native to tropical areas of Central America and the Caribbean. The genus was first described in 1768 by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in his book Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena... s. |
DL |
| Leeches of Yoh-Vombis | Parasitic Martian creatures. | |
| L'gy'hx, Natives of | Cube-shaped, multi-legged, metallic beings that inhabit the planet L'gy'hx (Uranus). | IS |
| Lloigor Lloigor (Cthulhu Mythos race) The Lloigor are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings first appeared in August Derleth and Mark Schorer's short story "The Lair of the Star Spawn" .-Summary:... |
Beings that may alternately appear as vortices of energy or dragon-like dinosaurs (Ghatanothoa may be a particularly powerful one). | IU, RL |
| Men of Leng Men of Leng The Men of Leng are a fictional race in the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. They are the primitive, satyr-like inhabitants of the Plateau of Leng in the Dreamlands. They call Leng Y'Pawfrm e'din Leng. They are mentioned throughout Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, especially in the novella The Dream-Quest of... |
Satyr Satyr In Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — "satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing.... -like beings that inhabit the Plateau of Leng Leng Leng is a fictional cold arid plateau in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose location seems to vary entirely from story to story. The Plateau of Tsang, referenced by H. P... . |
DQ |
| Mi-go Mi-go The Mi-go are a race of extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft and others. The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness" , taking up a reference to 'What fungi sprout in Yuggoth' in his sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth... (Fungi from Yuggoth, Outer Ones) |
Resemble human-sized, winged crustacean Crustacean Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span... s with globular heads covered with cilia. |
AM At the Mountains of Madness At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories... , DE, DT, GU, PF, OW, WD The Whisperer in Darkness "The Whisperer in Darkness" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to "The Colour Out of Space" , it is a blend of horror and science fiction... |
| Miri Nigri | Amphibious humanoids created by Chaugnar Faugn. Ancient Progenitors of the Tcho-tcho people. | HF |
| Moon-beast Moon-beast A moon-beast is a creature in H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. They are “great greyish-white slippery things which could expand and contract at will, and whose principal shape — though it often changed — was that of a sort of toad without any eyes, but with a curious vibrating mass of... s |
Plump, toad-like humanoids. | DQ, MD |
Table-c (N–Z)
| Name | Description | References Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography The following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles Cthulhu Mythos deities, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu Mythos biographies, Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies.-Index table 1:-Index table... |
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| Nagäae Cyäegha Cyäegha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and first appeared in Eddy C. Bertin's short story "Darkness, My name Is" .-Summary:... |
Toadish servants of Cyäegha. | DM |
| Nameless City, Denizens of | Alligator-like, seal-like humanoids. | NC |
| New Great Race of Yith Great Race of Yith The Great Race of Yith are aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. They first appeared in Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow Out of Time" . They are called the Great Race because they are the only beings to have mastered time travel... (Coleopterous Race) |
Resemble human-sized beetles. | ST The Shadow Out of Time The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by Americanhorror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories.-Plot summary:... |
| Nightgaunt Nightgaunt Nightgaunts are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The creatures appear in the poem "Night-Gaunts" and the novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, both by Lovecraft... s |
Faceless, bat-like humanoids. | DQ, HE, OK, WI |
| Nioth-Korghai | 1. Extraterrestrial, carnivorous monster held in captivity by King Ossaru in Zothique. | TB |
| 2. Extraterrestrial, aquatic creatures that feed on the life-force of human beings. | PS | |
| Ny'ghan Grii | Luminous spherical, cycloptic creatures from another dimension. They move by floating or crawling and are accompanied by thick fog and icy cold. | IN |
| Rat-Things | Tiny, rat-like creatures with human-like faces. | DW |
| Sand-dwellers | Appear as sand-encrusted, skeleton-like humanoids with large claws. | GW |
| Serpent Men Serpent Men Serpent-Men have also appeared in the Marvel Comics universe.The original Serpent-Men were a race of reptilian semi-humanoids who were created by the demon Set and who ruled areas of prehistoric Earth. Due to the efforts of Kull and Conan, the original Serpent-Men became extinct about 8,000 years... |
Serpent-like humanoids. | HG, HK, IU, OW, SG, |
| Servants of Glaaki Glaaki Glaaki is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos. Glaaki first appeared in "The Inhabitant of the Lake" , an early story by Ramsey Campbell.-Glaaki in the mythos:... |
Undead zombie Zombie Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli... s that serve the being Glaaki. |
IL |
| Servitors of the Outer Gods | Beings of varied form that dance mindlessly about Azathoth's throne at the center of the universe. | AZ |
| S'glhuo, Denizens of | Tall, bluish humanoids with blank eyes and boneless fingers; actually entities made of living sound. | PL |
| The Shan Insect from Shaggai An Insect from Shaggai is a member of a fictional alien race in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was created by British author Ramsey Campbell, who was inspired by a similar creature in H. P. Lovecraft's commonplace book... (Insects from Shaggai) |
Resemble large insects. | IS, QU |
| Shantak Shantak A shantak is a fictional creature in the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. It is also part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The creature first appeared in Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath .-Description:... s |
Elephantine, reptilian birds of the Dreamlands. | DQ, FO, RY |
| Shoggoth Shoggoth A shoggoth is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was mentioned in passing in sonnet XX of H.P... s |
Resemble gigantic amoebae with numerous floating eyes. | AM At the Mountains of Madness At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories... , GC, NE, PG, SI The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November-December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical.... , TC, TN |
| The Space-Eaters | ? | PE |
| The Spawn of the Green Abyss | The Spawn of the Green Abyss appear as a bluish slime with various and shifting features: Shoggoth Shoggoth A shoggoth is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was mentioned in passing in sonnet XX of H.P... -like entities, but highly evolved and intelligent. They inhabit the seas and oceans of the Earth, dwell in aquatic societies ruled by a queen called Zoth Syra. |
GR |
| Spiders of Leng | Giant purple spiders that inhabit the Plateau of Leng Leng Leng is a fictional cold arid plateau in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose location seems to vary entirely from story to story. The Plateau of Tsang, referenced by H. P... . |
DL |
| Star-spawn of Cthulhu (Cthulhi) |
Resemble smaller versions of Cthulhu himself. | AM At the Mountains of Madness At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories... , PW, TC |
| Star vampire Star vampire A star vampire is a monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being first appeared in Robert Bloch's short story "The Shambler from the Stars", which was originally published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales.-Summary:... (Shambler from the Stars) |
Invisible, levitating, vampiric horror with a myriad of suckers and two huge claws. | SF |
| Tcho-Tcho Tcho-Tcho The Tcho-Tcho, or Tcho-Tcho people, are a fictional human-like race in the Cthulhu Mythos.-Appearances:The Tcho-Tcho are first mentioned in August Derleth's 1933 short story "The Thing That Walked on the Wind", in which a character refers in passing to "the forbidden and accursed designs of the... people |
Mutated humanoids descended from the Miri-Nigri. | BK, EH, LS, BH |
| Thuum'ha (Beings of Ib) |
Green, toad-like humanoids with gelatinous bodies and emerald eyes | BM, DC, NL |
| Voonith | Huge lizards of the Dreamlands. | DL |
| Voormi Voormis The Voormis are a fictional race of cave-dwelling humanoids who worship Tsathoggua.-Description:The Voormis are the primary focus of a "posthumous collaboration" short story by Lin Carter after Clark Ashton Smith's death, The Scroll of Morloc... |
Yeti-like bipeds that inhabit Mount Voormithadreth in Hyperborea. | AF, SG, SM, TM |
| Xo Tl'mi-go | Pale, eyeless, leech-mouthed, and sterile hominid Hominidae The Hominidae or include them .), as the term is used here, form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees , gorillas , humans , and orangutans .... s. |
CK |
| Yaddith, Natives of | Humanoid inhabitants of the planet Yaddith that resemble a cross between mammals and reptiles. | DR, HG, TG, VI |
| Yekubians | Technologically-advanced, centipede-like beings that inhabit the planet Yekub. | CF |
| Y'lagh | A race of aquatic humanoids endowed with flippers and tentacles, servitors of Cthulhu. | SY2 |
| Yuggya | 1. (Yuggs or Yuggya) Beings that resemble white, planarian-like flatworms. | OA, WI |
| 2. (Yuggya) The offspring of a mating between a Yugg and a Deep One hybrid. | PI, WF | |
| Zoogs | Creatures of the Dreamlands that resemble small, elf Elf An elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind... in rodents. |
DQ, HE |
Cults
| Name | References Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography The following Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography is for use with the tables included in the articles Cthulhu Mythos deities, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu Mythos biographies, Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies.-Index table 1:-Index table... |
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| Black Brotherhood | SE |
| Brotherhood of the Beast | n/a |
| Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh | n/a |
| Brothers of the Yellow Sign (Cult of the Yellow Sign) |
IU, WD |
| Chesuncook Witch Coven (Cult of the Skull) |
DK, TN |
| Chorazos Cult | UT, RN |
| Church of Starry Wisdom | GA, HD, HI, SD, SE, DE |
| Cult of Cthulhu Cthulhu Cthulhu is a fictional character that first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P... |
CC |
| Cult of Bubastis | |
| Cult of the Bloody Tongue | n/a |
| Esoteric Order of Dagon Esoteric Order of Dagon The Esoteric Order of Dagon is a fictional cult in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.-Esoteric Order of Dagon in the mythos:Esoteric Order of Dagon was the primary religion in Innsmouth after Captain Obed Marsh returned from the South Seas with the dark religion circa 1838... |
SI |
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The Cthulhu Mythos incorporates many historical, astronomical, and mythological elements from the real world.- AldebaranAldebaranAldebaran is a red giant star located about 65 light years away in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.87 it is the brightest star in the constellation and is one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky...
, a star - BastBast (goddess)Bastet is the name commonly used by scholars today to refer to a feline goddess of ancient Egyptian religion who was worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty...
, cat goddess of ancient EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world... - Book of DzyanBook of DzyanThe Book of Dzyan is a reputedly ancient text of Tibetan origin. The Stanzas formed the basis for The Secret Doctrine, one of the foundational works of the theosophical movement, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1875.-Madame Blavatsky's claims regarding the Book of Dzyan:Madame Blavatsky claimed...
- CelaenoCelaenoIn Greek mythology, Celaeno referred to several different figures.*Celaeno, one of the Harpies, whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys.*Celaeno, one of the Pleiades...
, a star in the PleiadesPleiades (star cluster)In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters , is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky... - DagonDagonDagon was originally an Assyro-Babylonian fertility god who evolved into a major northwest Semitic god, reportedly of grain and fish and/or fishing...
, the MesopotamiaMesopotamiaMesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...
n fish god of vegetation and fertility - John DeeJohn Dee (mathematician)John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy....
, a historical person - FomalhautFomalhautFomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the sky. Fomalhaut can be seen low in the southern sky in the northern hemisphere in fall and early winter evenings. Near latitude 50˚N, it sets around the time Sirius rises, and does not...
, a star - Giant PenguinGiant PenguinThe giant penguin is a cryptid, allegedly seen in Florida during the 1940s. The legend has no scientific merit and is at least partly documented to have been a hoax.-History:...
, although these ones are evolved albino versions - H. P. LovecraftH. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
, as himself - HypnosHypnosIn Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thánatos ; their mother was the primordial goddess Nyx . His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines. At the entrance were a number of poppies and other hypnogogic plants...
, the god of sleep in Greek mythologyGreek mythologyGreek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece... - IremIram of the PillarsIram of the Pillars , also called Aram, Iram, Irum, Irem, Erum, Wabar, Ubar, or the City of a Thousand Pillars, is a lost city on the Arabian Peninsula.-Introduction:Ubar, a name of a region or a name of a people, was mentioned in ancient records, and was spoken of in folk...
, City of Pillars, a legendary buried city from Islamic mythologyIslamic mythologyIslamic mythology is the body of traditional narratives associated with Islam from a mythographical perspective. Many Muslims believe that these narratives are historical and sacred and contain profound truths...
(possibly the lost city of Ubar) - LemuriaLemuria (continent)Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography; however, the concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern theories of plate tectonics...
, a fabled land bridge, but a lost continent in the mythos - NodensNodensNodents is a Celtic deity associated with healing, the sea, hunting and dogs. He was worshipped in ancient Britain, most notably in a temple complex at Lydney Park in Gloucestershire, and possibly also in Gaul...
, the Hunter, a CelticCeltic mythologyCeltic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure...
deity worshipped in ancient Britain - Olaus Wormius, Danish antiquary cited as translator of the Necronomicon
- PlutoPlutoPluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun...
, identified by Lovecraft as Yuggoth - PonapePohnpeiNot to be confused with Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79.Pohnpei "upon a stone altar " is the name of one of the four states in the Federated States of Micronesia , situated among the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group...
, an island - The Severn ValleySevern ValleySevern Valley could be*The Severn Valley in Shropshire, English Midlands *The Severn Valley Country Park in Shropshire, English Midlands *The fictional Severn Valley...
, in England - TunguskaTunguska eventThe Tunguska event, or Tunguska blast or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m...
, in SiberiaSiberiaSiberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th... - The Voynich ManuscriptVoynich manuscriptThe Voynich manuscript, described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript", is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy. It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912....
- WendigoWendigoThe Wendigo is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans...
, borrowed from Native American mythologyNative American mythologyNative American mythology is the body of traditional narratives associated with Native American religion from a mythographical perspective. Native American belief systems include many sacred narratives. Such spiritual stories are deeply based in Nature and are rich with the symbolism of seasons,...