Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu

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[philswift]

Because he said Cthulhu is pronounced in an alien tongue there’s a very real possibility it pronounced Carl

[haleme]

I can sympathise with lovecrafts fear of deep water

[swagmaster]

Everybody gangsta until the squid starts walkin

[TruthSurge]

3:38 uh, I think Lovecraft states inside the Cthulhu story that the stars must be in alignment for them to travel so maybe the stars going OUT of alignment caused them to go dormant? Then maybe when the stars realign at some point in the future, Cthulhu begins to contact humans in their dreams hoping one will make it to his city to release him? I don't know!

[echidnathemotherofmonsters]

In English class, ‘the Call of Cthulhu’ was assigned to read. Well, I read it and had no issues. My friend on the other hand had nightmares for weeks.

[evelynn]

So "Call of Cthulhu" is basically an early version of a "found footage" story?

[ParanormalEncyclopedia]

There's a fun little coincidence called the Bloop. In the 90s a massive underwater sound was picked up by microphones off the coast of South America. The nature of the sound suggested something massive (like bigger then the largest blue whale) and some scientists thought it was consistent with marine life. What makes this awesome is that it was detected not terribly far from the coordinates Lovecraft gives for R'yleth. To be fair they're pretty much certain at this point it was an icequake in Antartica that caused the sound (like an earthquake but with ice) but still pretty cool.

[GuyUWishUWere]

Cthulhu is the easiest to describe...
Does that mean he's the most popular Lovecraft monster because he's the LEAST Lovecraft of them all?
That's gotta be the most insulting success story ever! That's great!

[trevorday]

"Hello, have you thought of buying Eldrich creature insurance?"

The Cold-Call of Cthulhu

[thatguybehindtheglass]

The idea that no matter what we do, no matter how far we strive, no matter how much we develop, we are existing on borrowed time and Cthulhu WILL awaken and destroy everything is quite possibly the most metal thing in existence.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I had to come back here after he was released in Smite. This is still one of the most well executed videos explaining Cthulhu.

[alphabulblax]

So ironically, Cthulhu became the most popular part of the Lovecraft mythos because he's one of the easiest to comprehend and understand.

[stephenconnell]

Its a wonder Hollywood hasn't made a movie about Cthulhu.

[purplehaze]

Cthulhu for president, 2020.

Why choose the lesser evil?

[Ghostryda]

5:42 *Have you truly forgotten that I am the Collector of Feet, for I am Cthulu, The Great Foot Fetish One.*

[MisterTutor]

Just the ringtone on Cthulu's cell phone has driven people insane :)

[VioletDeliriums]

5:06 I think HP Lovecraft's favorite description was "indescribable."

[Icewind]

Cthulhu is a great example of irony in Lovecraft's works in cosmic horror. It's only popular because fans made Cthulhu tangible and recognizable. This literally goes against everything Lovecraft was trying to do, with everything being unexplainable and foreign to any human concept of organization. The description should be a human's attempt at force fitting what they are perceiving into our limited perceptions, which is why it was given humanoid and animals shapes; those are things humans are familiar with. Instead, most people just go insane with the inability to process it.

However, without this tangibility, people probably wouldn't even know about Lovecraftian cosmic horror. It's not a horror genre that's easy to jump into without some knowledge of what it's all about. Cthulhu became a tangible mascot that brings people in to what it's all really about, or gets pulled out of context into just another large monster, but still builds interest in the stories.

[mauriciomorais]

5:45 Thanks for the nightmare fuel, man. Really, thanks a lot

[silvertheelf]

R’lyeh could have sunk do to continental drift.

The entire Cthulhu mythos was based on the fear of the unknown, the ocean, space, underground, and other planets.