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<blockquote data-quote="Obly99" data-source="post: 8728044" data-attributes="member: 7035194"><p>Thanks [USER=7033204]@Lordnightshade2[/USER] for the quick reply. A bit of history: Lovecraft in his stories never says directly what the Outer Gods are or how they work but always moved through metaphors and puns. Azathoth is not told directly in any tale that he dreams of the universe but it is said indirectly in the verse Lordnightshade2 reported above. Lovecraft based much of his stories on the unknown and on the fact that the human being should never try to discover things for which he is not destined and when he discovers them, madness or death are the only possible result: <em>"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. " The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. </em> The Outer Gods, their motives, and their goals are incomprehensible to the human mind and trying to interact with them only leads to catastrophes. That said, since many things are said / unspoken, much of Lovecraft's universe has been explained / expanded by his writers, friends and collaborators (small note that few know: Robert Ervin Howard, the writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian was a Lovecraft's dear friend and the two of them have been very callaborated. It is official that the universe of Conan the Barbarian and that of Lovecraft are the same) after Lovecraft's death in 1937. As for who generated whom, Lovecraft wrote in a letter the details of Azathoth's genealogy <em>"In a letter to a friend who jokingly claimed descent from Jupiter, Lovecraft drew up a detailed genealogy charting his and fellow writer Clark Ashton Smith's shared descent from Azathoth, through Lovecraft's creation Nyarlathotep and Clark-Smith's Tsathoggua , respectively. As nowhere stated in Lovecraft's published work, primordial Azathoth here is made ancestor, through his children Nyarlathotep, "The Nameless Mist," and "Darkness, "of Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Nug and Yeb, Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, several deities and monsters unmentioned outside the letter, and a few of Lovecraft's and Ashton-Smith's fancifully-posited human forebears."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obly99, post: 8728044, member: 7035194"] Thanks [USER=7033204]@Lordnightshade2[/USER] for the quick reply. A bit of history: Lovecraft in his stories never says directly what the Outer Gods are or how they work but always moved through metaphors and puns. Azathoth is not told directly in any tale that he dreams of the universe but it is said indirectly in the verse Lordnightshade2 reported above. Lovecraft based much of his stories on the unknown and on the fact that the human being should never try to discover things for which he is not destined and when he discovers them, madness or death are the only possible result: [I]"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. " The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. [/I] The Outer Gods, their motives, and their goals are incomprehensible to the human mind and trying to interact with them only leads to catastrophes. That said, since many things are said / unspoken, much of Lovecraft's universe has been explained / expanded by his writers, friends and collaborators (small note that few know: Robert Ervin Howard, the writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian was a Lovecraft's dear friend and the two of them have been very callaborated. It is official that the universe of Conan the Barbarian and that of Lovecraft are the same) after Lovecraft's death in 1937. As for who generated whom, Lovecraft wrote in a letter the details of Azathoth's genealogy [I]"In a letter to a friend who jokingly claimed descent from Jupiter, Lovecraft drew up a detailed genealogy charting his and fellow writer Clark Ashton Smith's shared descent from Azathoth, through Lovecraft's creation Nyarlathotep and Clark-Smith's Tsathoggua , respectively. As nowhere stated in Lovecraft's published work, primordial Azathoth here is made ancestor, through his children Nyarlathotep, "The Nameless Mist," and "Darkness, "of Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Nug and Yeb, Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, several deities and monsters unmentioned outside the letter, and a few of Lovecraft's and Ashton-Smith's fancifully-posited human forebears."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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