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  References to the Cthulhu mythos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maureen Birnbaum at the Looming Awfulness, by George Alec Effinger, is a parody of Lovecraft.
Paul Wilson has made passing references to the Mythos; the most explicit of these occurs in his novel The Keep, wherein a treasure trove of books is discovered with titles directly out of the Mythos, including the Book of Eibon and a copy of al-Azif (the Arabic original of the Necronomicon).
This is probably a reference to the Necronomicon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/References_to_the_Cthulhu_mythos   (4993 words)

  
 Cthulhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the cycle of stories written by Lovecraft, his protégés, and his literary successors bear the label "Cthulhu mythos" (a term invented by August Derleth and never used by Lovecraft), Cthulhu is arguably one of the least terrible creatures in the pantheon.
Cthulhu's body is essentially proof against damage by weapons of mortal design, being constructed of the material found in the empty spaces of the cosmos.
The Cthulhu mythos was introduced to the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons in the first edition of the TSR book Deities and Demigods (in 1980) further editions were released without the Cthulhu mythos section due to copyright issues.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cthulu   (4100 words)

  
 Cthulhu mythos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
[[Cthulhu mythos cults#Brotherhood of the BeastBrotherhood of the Beast]]
Cthulhu Fhtagn!" in ''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'' (1st ed.), Random House, 1998.
Cthulhu Fhtagn!", ''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'', pp.
cthulhumythos.quickseek.com   (2771 words)

  
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Temple thinks this refers to the orbit of Sirius B around Sirius A, to arcs, etc. But the actual meanings are rings and the biting of dogs which to Temple has no significance other than as references to Sirius B and its elliptical orbit.
Asti, in Egyptian, refers to the sequentiality of thrones.
The Cthulhu cult captives in the custody of Legrasse speak of Great Old Ones who ruled the earth ages before man. They were gone now, locked inside the earth and under the sea, but their great priest Cthulhu will bring them back when the stars were ready.
www.geocities.com /satanicreds/sirius.html   (21385 words)

  
 Cthulwho: The Cthulhu Mythos in Doctor Who
There's Cthulhu, who we met in Haiti, if you recall, and the Gods of Ragnarok, who Ace will tell you about if you ask her nicely, and Nyarlathotep, who I sincerely hope never to encounter.
The Cthulhu mythos, named after its most famous representative, is the "world" of a collection of stories centred by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, dating from the nineteen-twenties and thirties.
The Cthulhu mythos is an excellent place to extend your reading, and Lovecraft's entire body of work has the distinction of being still in print, mostly due to the efforts of Arkham House.
www.tabula-rasa.info /DoctorWho/Cthulwho.html   (1450 words)

  
 The Cthulhu Mythos: Introduction
By involving his friends in the process, including references to their stories and encouraging them to include references to his, Lovecraft started a kind of mutant phenomenon of Mythos pastiches that has since infected a multitude of crazed victims.
As a result, a number of the "Cthulhu Mythos" stories (so named by his disciple, August Derleth) are classics, and many others are passable light entertainment or at least have some lingering curiosity value.
The scope of the study is limited to those stories contributed by the first generation of Mythos authors: H. Lovecraft and his circle of friends and correspondents.
baharna.com /cmythos/ctha1int.htm   (1539 words)

  
 The Arcane Archive - alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ, Part 3: General (v. 6/9/94)
Cthulhu is a monstrous entity who lies "dead but dreaming" in the city of R'lyeh, a place of non-Euclidean madness presently (and mercifully) sunken below the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Cthulhu is the high priest of the Great Old Ones, unnatural alien beings who ruled the Earth before humanity formed, worshipped as gods by some misguided people.
Cthulhu is the English spelling of the sounds which represent the name of a Great Old One.
www.arcane-archive.org /faqs/faq.ahcthlu.9406.php   (7951 words)

  
 FUTURELORE - Games At Discounted Prices With Free Shipping
Call of Cthulhu is Chaosium’s classic roleplaying game of Lovecraftian horror in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying and alien forces of the Cthulhu Mythos.
CTHULHU DARK AGES is a complete roleplaying game, using the intuitive and flexible Basic Roleplaying System used and developed by Chaosium for many years and is also used in our Call of Cthulhu game.
The Cthulhu Mythos was first created by H. Lovecraft (1890-1937), a Providence author considered by many to be the finest horror story writer of the twentieth century.
www.futurelore.com /coc.htm   (5560 words)

  
 Conan and the Cthulhu Mythos
Though no one has claimed the Conan stories as part of the Cthulhu Mythos, that group of stories by HPL and his friends centered on Cthulhu and his kin, it does by proxy exist next to them.
Howard did write at least six undisputed Cthulhu Mythos stories, “The Worms of the Earth” and “The Black Stone” being two of the best.
Though the references are never overt, the Conan stories are filled with Lovecraftian atmosphere.
kingsofthenight0.tripod.com /mythos.htm   (1920 words)

  
 LEVIATHAN CHAINED: The Legend of the Nephilim and the Cthulhu Mythos, by Paula O'Keefe
All, too, are referred to not simply as giants themselves but as "those born to the giant" or "those who come of the giants" - as descendants of a giant clan or race.
The Mythos is not large, comprising some dozen stories and a number of short poems, but its influence is immense, as is its theme.
Cthulhu, "dead but dreaming" in his drowned city of R'lyeh, speaking to humanity through dreams from the bottom of the sea, could not more clearly be Tiamat's child and heir to this tradition of fathomless raw power.
www.apocalypse.org /pub/u/hilda/leviathan.html   (7739 words)

  
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The Cthulhu Mythos stories chronicle the adventures of such unfortunates, frequently in as high-blown a style as the latter sentences of this paragraph are in.
Being included in a self-styled collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories usually is, though I make note that a particular story may not contain a direct Mythos reference.
In certain cases, while no direct, unequivocal Mythos connections are made, both the spirit of the work *and* an assortment of elements not usually found together except in the Mythos have combined to make the work eligible.
necrolibro.dreamers.com /hache-pe-ele/cthubib.txt   (15737 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Mythology
For the purposes of this article, therefore, we use the word "mythology" to refer to stories that, while they may or may not be strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes.
Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
Many modern day rabbis and priests within the more liberal Jewish and Christian movements, as well as most Neopagans, have no problem viewing their religious texts as containing myth; they see their sacred texts as indeed containing religious truths, divinely inspired but delivered in the language of mankind.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mythology   (653 words)

  
 Clark Ashton Smith: connections to the Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a name given to the collected works, both prose and poetry, about a set of alien beings, invented by H. Lovecraft, his friends, and his admirers.
In the world of the Cthulhu Mythos, alien beings known to us only as as the Great Old Ones came to this planet eons ago and ruled.
The Cthulhu Mythos stories chronicle the adventures of such unfortunates, frequently in as high-blown a style as that used in the latter sentences of this paragraph.
www.oceanstar.com /cas/cjetext.htm   (3017 words)

  
 H.P. LOVECRAFT, CTHULHU MYTHOS AND NECROMONICON BOOKS
However, they are rarely featured in Cthulhu Mythos stories except for titillation or shock value, or as window dressing to make the story seem more realistic or interesting.
The Cthulhu Mythos was first created by H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), a Providence author considered by many to be the finest horror story writer of the twentieth century.
In Cthulhu 2000, a host of horror and fantasy's top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. Lovecraft--with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.
www.anathemabooks.com /lovecraft.shtml   (5794 words)

  
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The mythos of the work is based in Sumerian Mythology (simple > >enough) - however, it is a bastardization thereof (read the Enuma Elish > >sometime and compare).
However, given the orientation of the work I would expect the contents to be distorted whether as a reflection of that which is described and/or the state of mind and perceptions of the author.
I would like to see one valid reference (preferably not modern) to a > >work outside the Necronomicon itself stating that it had been rumored > >that so-and-so had such owned a work way back when.
www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/occultism/magic/books/necronomicon/0003.grimoir.m   (1079 words)

  
 Business Software Review : Article 'H. P. Lovecraft'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This took on a dark tone with the creation of what is today often called the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of alien extra-dimensional deities and horrors which predate mankind, and which are hinted at in aeon-old myths and legends.
The term Cthulhu Mythos was coined by Lovecraft's correspondent and fellow author, August Derleth, after Lovecraft's death; Lovecraft referred to his artificial mythology as "Yog-Sothothery"[1] (http://www.sff.net/people/timpratt/611.html).
Also, Lovecraft's early 20th century perspective yielded references in his works to objects and ideas that may be unfamiliar to modern readers.
www.business-software-review.org /DisplayArticleFull41574.html   (3282 words)

  
 The Original Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology Part VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
There is also a reference to the Orlac case, in which an organ transplant leads to horrible results.
The reference is in a context that suggests that the French occultist was co-existent with Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle adventurer.
At the Mountains of Madness was Johnny Littlejohn, while confirming the presence of the Cthulhu Mythos in the Wold Newton Universe.
www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Chron7.htm   (10526 words)

  
 Brief Intro to Mythos Haiku   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Of course, since this is the Lair of the Mythos Haiku, the rules are a little different.
MUST be relevant to H.P. Lovecraft or the Cthulhu Mythos, with exceptions allowable if involving references to Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu products.
Disclaimer: Call of Cthulhu is © 1997 - 1998 by Chaosium, Inc. Call of Cthulhu is a trademark of Chaosium, Inc. None of the materials found herein are intended as challenges to the trademarks and/or copyrights of Chaosium, Inc.
www.inzenity.com /mythku/yeb.htm   (189 words)

  
 The Cthulhu Mythos: A Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Works by the first generation writers, with lists of the Mythos terms referenced in each story.
This work is for the complete "Mythos" addict, and that still more blighted specimen, the "Mythos" scholar.
It presents an index to references to characters, places, Gods, books, et al, in stories by the first generation of "Cthulhu Mythos" writers:
baharna.com /cmythos/mythos.htm   (159 words)

  
 Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were
There are only references to actual historical events insofar as they fit into the context of the timeline at hand.
The journey into ultimate terror that is H. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos carries with it the unique terrors inherent in trying to precisely date the actions of dark cosmic forces...
The Cthulhu Mythos Timeline, by Dru Smith, Donovan Loucks, and Daniel Harms, is somewhat more detailed than the above timeline, but it was also derived from the alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ, as it is part of The Official Cthulhu Mythos FAQ, a spinoff of sorts from the original.
www.mts.net /~arphaxad/history.html   (10423 words)

  
 Invisible Library Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A Cthulhu Mythos by Chris Jarocha-Ernst and Encyclopedia Cthulhiana by Daniel Harms.
Chaosium Publishers of Clark Ashton Smith, Lin Carter, and other authors adding to the Lovecraft mythos.
Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos Lots of information about the Lovecraft mythos plus many links.
invisiblelibrary.com /invisibleoffice.htm   (1143 words)

  
 The Occult - Occultopedia's Necronomicon, H. P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos, Terror and Horror Links
Full of insights into the methods of these scientists, exciting tales of discovery, and the history and evolution of this field, Cryptozoology A to Z is the most complete reference ever of the newest zoological science.
It's both a great quick reference for writers and an enjoyable read for fantasy fans who want to know more about the origins of their favorite creatures.
Those who are serious about horror will also find it an excellent reference.
www.occultopedia.com /necronomicon1.htm   (3872 words)

  
 FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH. - LOVECRAFT, H.P.,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
USA Necronomicon Press 1997 Third Edition, Second Printing Private Press Chapbook Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Fine 3rd ed, 2nd ptg.
36 sonnets of cosmic horror and dark fantasy, filled with Cthulhu Mythos references, composing several loosely-connected narratives.
Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook.
www.antiqbook.com /boox/myt/82790.shtml   (80 words)

  
 TOP 1O SIGNS YOU'RE A CTHULHU MYTHOS MANIAC by James Ambuehl
them a short diatribe on the Cthulhu Mythos.
Someone asks you about a certain Mythos book or entity, and you
You design a Cthulhu Mythos fiction website, and call it LETTERS
members.fortunecity.com /moderan/humour/top10sig.html   (265 words)

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