Cthulhu The Great Dreamer - (Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos)
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- Today we begin exploring the Cthulhu mythos and the works of HP Lovecraft with the Great Dreamer himself, the Sleeper of R'lyeh Cthulhu the high priest of the great old ones. #Lovecraft #CthulhuMythos #MythologyExplained
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I thought trying to pronounce Gaelic was hard, turns out Alien is just as bad.
Mythology & Fiction Explained I know that feeling 😂😂keep up the awesome work
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Fantastic job, well done 👍 I really enjoyed this vid, Cthulhu has featured in meny films bt I can only think of two of them that refer to him & the rest of the pantheon as "the old ones" & they are "Howard the Duck" (meny of you are probably to young to have heard of that film, it's an 80's thing 😂) & the other is a little more resent & that's "HellBoy" both of which are good films bt "Howard the Duck" is abit wierd 😂😅😂😅
You should try Aztec ones. This is both a joke and a real suggestion.
Mythology & Fiction Explained truth
Try Klingon, you'll choke on your own spit.
i remember when i was 8 and went fishing with my uncle ...i was sitting there admiring a great blue lake ,relaxing ...and suddenly terror griped me just by watching the calm water and thinking what can be lurking there
Shut up bitch
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Feel þe thalassophobia
I got to admit with shame that the first real encounter I had with Cthulhu was in that South Park episode. I just had to look up after it what the hell that flying squid monster is and a whole new universe emptied itself right over my head. Now I love Lovecrafts work-
That episode was hilarious. Think it was called Coon and Friends and yeah that was my 1st if not 2nd expressing
John O ́neil same here
My own first awareness of Lovecraft's work came due to a role-playing game my friends wanted to try. Once I read "The Mountains of Madness" however, I was off to the races, so to speak. However one finds a compelling fictional universe, the thing to do? Just enjoy it :)
John O ́neil my first encounter with it was from a video game
John O ́neil I've got an interesting one for you. Even though I passively encounter Cthulhu Mythos inspired movies and media when I was younger, I only truly came to understand after playing a dating Sim game in my teens and one of the answers for the girl was that HP Lovecraft was her favorite author. So eventually I looked him up and then I discovered the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Video game Bloodborne(2015) Is heavily inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Complete with great old one and dream realms and a zone that is ripped straight from the shadow over innsmouth. One of the final bosses The moon presence takes a form similar to that of cthulhu or nyarlathotep. The games shift from Gothic to cosmic horror is nothing short of a masterstroke. There are dozens of video essays on TH-cam about bloodborne and it influences. I highly recommend as a game and as a prime example of lovecraftain horror.
mitchel skiles yh I think he did a whole video on it
i know alot of people did and i follow several channels like this one. so i wasn't sure but he asked
Dude, bloodborne is awesome, I’ve invested over 500 hours and it’s probably my favorite game ever. It’s cool to see other people loving it as much as me
The only problem that people even bring up is that the good Hoontah is able to dunk the cosmic horror monsters. Personally I love Bloodborne, I love the entire Soulsborne series, while Dark Souls 1 had tje best story Bloodborne had, by far the best gameplay of the whole series and i doubt anyone will be able to outdo it.
I get that the whole appeal of cosmic horror is its so unimaginably beyond us and understand that. But i think bloodborne justifys it to a certain degree. For one a good portion of the game we are on the trail of a group of people trying to ascend to become a old one, some succeed we find(rom) and we attempt the same. The only truly powerful old one we fight is the moon presence. We are told the amygdalas are "lesser" and simply servants of the nightmares(not inculcating patches worship). And the orphan of cos is simply a child of a Deep one(or a human ascended witch ever theory you like). So the only real old god we fight moon daddy but at that point we are close to ascending ourselves.
It’s weird a lot of people seem to think of Cthulhu as this all-powerful, incomprehensible form. He’s described to have a form, there’s statues of him that describe him as the classic winged tentacle-mouthed monster we all know and love, and he’s far from the most powerful of the Lovecraftian gods.
Right. He's actually the only one I know of that maintained a consistent shape through all appearances.
@@anselravenhart4753 Don't shame body-consistency here! It is a sensitive topic for elder gods
They get whatever is rad in the generation. Not him tho.
Going by the Call of Cthulhu, the statues are meant to be poor representations of him. The human eye approximates him as having a tentacled face and dragon wings and whatnot, but that’s just due to our limited capacities. The testimony of the sailor makes it pretty clear he’s meant to be incomprehensible.
But cthulu is more famous because of its power of dream and infinity which people really like and it’s look is something a human would want to look at but not at the same time
My friend had a custom D&D campaign based off the Cthulu mythos. I played as a cultist, basically a necromancer. It was really fun but I ended up getting slaughtered at the end because I tried to awaken Cthulu and failed miserably because of my unlucky rolls.
Lol can I play
TH-cam algorithm has reunited us all once again
Viking Cecio i see a reference to youtube algorithm, i upvote..thats how it works.
i literally searched it.
No dumbass I searched for this
Best of luck brother
Wrong
I have no idea why I'm watching this, thanks TH-cam recommendations 🤘
@Hyrr Oswald Noon ok
Bro on god I'm like wtf let me click this shit and see wassup 😂
Tentacle hentai?🤣JK
@@alexidiculamathews7822 funny
I wonder how cthulhu would feel about all the rule 34 porn made after him. Probably would just go back into the ocean
He would probably kill them first...
He would annihilate all life on Earth.
Say sike rn
You've now opened a universe more horrifying than Lovecrafts works
Pretty sure he’d say fuck it and just leave, like just fuck off to another plant with his family and never come back to earth
Do you ever creep yourself out researching sometimes?
Yeah researching the Russian sleep experiment.
@@veronicamartinez1278 for that one i really dont blame you being creeped out
Yes. Because i tend to start believing in all i research.
Lol it happens to me every time I believe it for like 1 week at least till I forget
@@veronicamartinez1278 it was fictional novel book story and far from reality! Just check your source again!
"Talking in alien tongues wouldn't be helpful, like coughing up a furball"
Must've been hard not to laugh there. Lol
If I remember right, the dreamer was described as a combination of a dragon, a man and an octopus
In other words, inspired by your mother
Nice one
@@yiurock4084 lol
Yeah the dragon part probably referred to the wings, claws, and scaliness.
Does the Cult of Cthulhu have a lifetime membership and freebies?
kirby march Barcena join us we have cookies but we aren’t entirely sure what they are made of in fact sometimes they aren’t even cookies and are cows and sometimes even cuttlefish but hey COOKIES!
No calamares?
Herpy Depth the cookies are made from soylet green.
The only freebies is madness
kirby march Barcena, think NRA but with membership you get insanity...
That which is not dead may Eternal lie, and with strange Aeons even death may die. Cthulhu Waits dreaming.
Death will die, When God destroys it, its already prophesied in the bible.
@@johnhowlett500 Those lines are from the short story.
@@johnhowlett500 you don't have to connect everything to the bible
@@tegesnripendra9473 Almost everything is connected to the bible because its the truth. Just the way it is.
@@johnhowlett500 stfu not everyone's a christian. i respect your beliefs but don't go around babbling about it as if everyone believes the same thing.
"... and no I'm not taking about Davy Jones"
Sassy. Lol
*talking
Learn to spell you dipshit
Yiu Rock wow.
@@yiurock4084 The only dipshit I see here is "Yiu"
@@ZeldaLore Talking & Taking are two different words & definitions. He needs to get his words right
Try reading "The Mound." It features Cthulu as being at least marginally benevolent, while exploring other themes and concepts that are quite refreshing if you're a little bored of Lovecraft's usual themes.
You can find a rather good reading of it on the HorrorBabble channel, where a man by the name of Ian Gordon capably narrates 90% of the stories there.
This is not specifically Cthulhu but the podcast The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast is a GREAT podcast where two buddies read all of Lovecrafts work, HP inspired work, famous horror stories, and so on, and I can’t recommend it enough!!
I think you meant the HP Podcraft?
So it's a bit childlike, but every night I read my daughter the Call of Cthulu as written in the style of Dr. Seuss. It's a really quick book that covers the big plot points of the original story. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a light-hearted reading of Lovecraft.
I think you're probably going to deserve everything that happens when she convenes the Cult and raises R'leyh once again.
And I'll be the first to shout, "Oh, Hey Cthulhu"
Eat them. Eat them. Here they are.
@@aaronproctor3623 "How's your sex life?"
@@vegapunkslab511 really awesome thanks for asking.
I've actually been waiting for a video on Cthulhu. Great stuff as usual.
Cthulhu vs kratos
Bloodborne is pretty lovecraftian, no actual Cthulhu though lol.
your voice is oddly very soothing and i want you to read me bed time stories
Rishabh lol
That's why the Love Death Robots episode In Vaulted Halls Entombed was so incredible....what you didn't see was so much more terrifying.
There was an HBO movie called "Cast a Deadly Spell" that centered on a magically themed 1947 and a plot to raise Cthulhu and the elder gods.
Yog Sothoth reminds of Hermaeus Mora from Skyrim. In fact, he may have been the inspiration.
All shall know the guardian at the gate
The Monster Hunter international book series has a lot of references to the old ones and several creatures from the Cthulu mythos and very entertaining.
Cthulhu***
If we're being allowed to request that you read something, I'd vote for Shadow Over Innsmouth or Mountains of Madness. Both of them are, in my opinion, excellent examples of how the mythos is presented and give at least a hint of why Cthulu and his ilk are so terrifying.
Great stuff. Can't wait to see more of the Lovcraftian Mythos. Maybe do Azathoth next? Starting from the begining would be the best for future reference.
I love the Lovecraft Mythos so I'm happy I stumbled upon this channel when I did
I'm so glad I found this station. It's great to come home to a new fable.
Just found your channel, now have something to do with my Saturday. Time to binge.
I first heard about Cthulhu on that episode of “Billy and Mandy”, “Prank Call of Cthulhu”. It’s one of my faves.
I love how a ton of World of Warcraft lore is based upon H.P. Lovecraft
Haha all the old god lore especially is straight from Lovecraft haha its cool
Cthun...yog saron...nzoth...ect
Brian Lumley's books, starting with Titus Crow, are some of the best I have read on Cthulhu ! They are not as disturbing as they were when I was younger, but they still fascinate me and yes, still wiggle into my dreams.
....LUMLEY HAS BOOKS ON CUTHULU....??????????!!!!!!!!!!! OMG SWEET THKS . For whatever reason it's been hard to get content on Lovecraft mythos for me.
Hearing the origin story, Cthulu was definitely a storm cloud. “Formless” “split his head but it reformed behind us” “the great odd ones come from the stars”
"Cough up a fur ball." - the Hebrew word for a 'cat' is of course a 'Cthul'.
Wait what?! So Lovecraft named his character...Kitty? Lmao I'll never be able to view this character in a serious manner, ever again.
Wait, do the maker of this video speak Hebrew? Or do you? And actually it's Hatul or Chatul if anything (it's my native tongue).
It's probably just a coincidence
@@SlayerSeraph Chatul, right, got that wrong.
I have just begun to read the cthulu mythos of hp lovecraft and your videos are a great help and very informative. Lovecraft is quickly becoming my favorite writer due to his abstract and vivid writing style thanks for making these videos
Cthulhu's most notable feat is when he squished Justin Bieber's brain out.
If only MintberryCrunch could've discovered his powers earlier. Justin may have lived.
in southpark they explain all of Kenny's deaths by saying his parents went to a cthulhu cult meeting for free beer before he was born
Wish these videos were longer. Love this whole mythology.
I'm pretty pumpt for the game "Call of Cthulhu" to finally to be released, I read about it every all the time; so far rumours say this year by December. I really hope so
carneyaugustine420 play Bloodborne. It’s one of the best game I’ve played that’s inspired by lovecrafts work
Hehe the letters can pell "coc"
"Hello there, Cthulu calling. Are you currently satisfied with your level of sanity?"
Yeah im fine. You wont drive me insane because im batman!
Great job on Cthulhu. I was wondering when you’d get to the Lovecraftian stuff.
@UNKNOWN Unknown what?
So he’s a Lovecraftian Pope?
Yeah
High priest.
In the Pathfinder table top rpg I once played as a cleric of Cthulhu. It was so much fun playing that.
You forgot music - Metallica “call of Cthulhu “
And also "the thing that should not be" (also from metallica)
I believe that song is about Chtulhu as well
Heck yeah bud. I specifically looked through this comment section just to see if anyone would comment anything about that song.
Awesome start loved the vid keep up the great work
Cthulhu being a dad totally explains his bod.
Just Some Guy with a Mustache underrated comment 😂🔥
How in the hell are you here like I see you everywhere
@@martyluciano533 diff ppl
his fathers have cosmic daddy issues
I see you everywhere bro
The Collect Call of Cthulu was my favorite guest appearance of the great dreamer
God I love H.P Lovecraft's monsters/ Gods.
My favourite Cthulhu. Meme?
When the Old Ones return, those with the most Dr Pepper in their systems will be the first to die. It will be a blessing
Off to a strong start 👍🏾
In Galicia we eat Cthulu with oil, saltz and pimentón picante (red hot peppers). 🐙 And boiled potatos we call cachelos. And the name of this Dish IS Fary stile octopusd. Bon apetite.
"The Thing That Should Not Be" from Metallica was going through my head while I was watching this video😂😂
Why not "Call of Cthulhu"?
In Season 2 of Justice League: The Animated Series(2003), in a two part episode called: “The Terror Beyond”, Cthulhu is feature as an extradimesional god-like entity called Icthultu. He is the leader of a species of monster called “The Old Ones”. Icthultu even looks very similar to the Lovecraftian depictions of Cthulhu. In the show, he is voiced by Rob Zombie
I love how when im reading this im writing a little short story about Cthulu in DC. atm Batman is at the emerald stone city place investigating where the people last went missing and finding the cult.
The iconography is masterclass
Yep. .
I have tonput this HERE too, so
Back in the 60s My Gran used to say "Everytime the World Opens itself to us, it swallows a few".
I never did get past how absolutely CREEPED out it made me feel, as She'd WINK as she said it......
It always made me think of those horrid fish. Down in the darkness, with their luminescent LURES, just waiting.
Cthulhu will arise when the world is consumed by a pandemic of madness.........
So glad this channel is finally tackling the only mythology that matters.
#nolivesmatter
Couple weeks ago, I went searching through google and youtube and wikipedia trying to learn about lovecraft great old ones and couldn't get much because I didn't know the right terms to use. I learned very little. Lo, I have now been enlightened to the emptiness and learned thanks to the chaos of youtube recommendations. Be this a sign of anything other than the true chaos that is the concept of the Great Old Ones that I cannot choose to learn, but it will teach itself to me. Did I even choose to click this video?
Cannot say whether or not he is directly represented in the fromsoftware title bloodborne but the Lovecraftian influences are very apparent after a few hours into the game. It's actually a great example of traditional horror like bram's stoker type horror and the psychological/cosmic horror of the Lovecraftian mythos blended together perfectly in my opinion and is very worth a look if you haven't already.
Appropriate that he was considered the priest of the old ones, given how he is means by which many learn of them and the rest of the mythos in real life.
Pretty much everything involving the Old Gods in World of Warcraft are inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's works. As an example, N'Zoth in World of Warcraft is heavily inspired by Cthulhu.
Ultraman, Ultraman Dyna, Kyasshi, & Gomora vs. Cthulhu!
The best Cthulhu line I've ever encountered is "Gthulhu For President! Why vote for the lesser of two evils?"
The man, the myth, the legend,
*squid boi*
You have a lot of respect from me if you were able to read all of hp love crafts works
It's interesting that you mentioned the fear of what lies beneath the ocean surface. I have that fear myself and it's actually the reason why I haven't read any works of Lovecraft or the Cthulhu mythos yet. I can't even stand looking at pictures. It's quite annoying actually and I would like to overcome the fear.
Keep up the good work.
Makes me think of how Davey jones from The pirates of the Caribbean movies.
I'd recommend the song "Hey there Cthulhu" from Eben Brooks
i have recently developed a fascination with H.P Lovecraft. , having recently bought his Necronomicon( a.k.a, the best, weird tales of H.P.Lovecraft) when i came accross it among some books i was putting on display in a charrity store where i work. . one can draw paralels between his work & that of J.R.R Tolkien, in that both these authors invented their own, fascinateing fantassy worlds, inhabited by extraordinary creatures & people, which make their stories utterly fascinateing & absorbing. Lovecraft's where aimed at adult readers, while Tolkiens where written with the younger generation in mind, but these mythical realms make their stories totaly absorbing & irrisistable!
I like how you pronounce R'leyh.
Ya'll forgetting the Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy with the episode called, "The Call of Cthul."
I dont like the idea of Cthulu being an alien. I prefer the view where the Old Ones are primordial beings that reside between the dimensions.
I see what you mean but that makes them aliens by definition lol just cosmic godlike aliens.
Lovecraft's tales are magnificent. He was a genius. Thanks.
Has somebody already mentioned "14" by Peter Clines? It has Cthulhu in it. Excellent audiobook
months ago I had a dream almost as if I made a telepathic connection with a creature at the bottom of the sea. It's road was sooo loud that it shook me to the core. I was seeing everything that it was seeing from small tiny bulb shaped jellyfish to the blackness of the deep depths of the sea. the connection was strong but I managed to break it. I never wanted to experience something like that ever again but now that I understand him more I get his purpose the old ones are returning soon.
Well dang that's sp00ky did you see what it looked like?
Big headed lemon no I didn't and I didn't want to.
We have Hermaeus Mora and the entirety of Apocrypha from the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim serving as the most recent depiction of Cthulhu in gaming. If I'm wrong please let me know.
Next do Yig father of serpents.
Tomb Keeper13 A few people have mentioned this already but Bloodborne was heavily based on lovecrafts work.
It's more like Yog-Sothoth
It has been a long time since I played BB therefore I cannot recall who it was primarily based on. I just remember it was lovecraft... although Yog does make sense.
All you need to know about Yig:
Yig is Yig, easy to please, easy to anger.
Be kind to his children.
Love your content in any capacity man and this stuff is just awesome, love your interaction with us fans and keep up the great work dude
I suggest the Widdershins books, aka the Whybourne and Griffin series. They are a long series of mystery novels, sometime vaguely in the late 1800's to early 1900's, all involving Lovecraftian horrors, magic, and the supernatural. They feature Whybourne, a painfully introverted doctor of language and hieroglyphs, alumni of Miskatonic University, and closeted gay man, working on various translations of ancient texts in the museum of his hometown, the fictional New England port of Widdershins. He meets Griffin Flaherty, a private detective who is investigating a case of the supernatural, and trying to come to terms with his past traumatic experiences of eldritch horror (and another closeted gay man), who needs Whybourne's help translating texts relevant to his case. They then go on to have a long continued series of books where they defeat cultists, discover monsters, do rituals, travel the world, and have gay sex. Is it romance? Is it horror? Is it a damn good time? Yes to all.
That which not dead, eternal lie. In stranger eons, death may die
You people sound like brainwashed clones repeating the same nonsense
The final boss in persona 2 innocent sin was nyarlathotep.
iSintael that final battle song is still clear in my head. Awesome game
Wasn’t the final boss Hitler?
I remember a version of Cthulhu from the Ghostbusters cartoon. He was scary.
I love how you always end your stories (I've been your host...Mythology and fiction explained) ♥️💯
Funny how the first time that I heard of Cthulu was in Billy and Mandy 🤣
South park
Ik rite
Disappointing, more like.
Hey is there anyway you can do a video on Mercury. I can’t find much information on him, other then the Smite character analysis.
Halle W. There should be alot of info since Mercury is just the Roman version of Hermes
I feel that one aspect of the Cthulhu mythos that should have been mentioned is the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Lovecraft created the mythos, and Derleth and others expanded it, but Sandy Petersen, in creating his rpg, did more than anyone to catalogue the mythos and collect as much information as possible in one internally consistent place.
Love how you are doing more obscure mythology’s
There's a game known as The Calling of Cuthulu. I don't believe its out yet, but its worth looking into.
Yes finally the cthulhu mythos. By the way can you do azathoth, daoloth and ghroth as well
First exposure I had to the mythos was an episode of The Real Ghostbusters. Come across it in my studies regularly. It's fascinating and frightening all at once, which seems part of the point.
Lovecraft: Cthulhu cannot be destroyed, it regenerates.
Terraria: Not so indestructible, huh?
binding of isaac got him in
Wait, it's not a made up monster from South Park?!
Nope! It's a very real threat to mankind introduced by a madman!
I have the Call of Cthulu video game. Still trying to finish it, but it's beautiful.
Just to comment on the star born race that revere Cthulhu, Id like to interpret their accession as the priest came about them and either indirectly or directly influenced their evolution into something similar to himself. That his powers changed them over time and molded them into something of his image. Sorta like the Reapers from Mass effect re-purpose anything that comes into contact with them to suit their needs.
Love your channel! definitely a new favorite of mine! much love from Canada.
The new game "the sunken city" is all about hp lovecraft and his lore it's so fun so fa4
How about coverage on Hellboy and the connection to lovecraft.
My first encounter with Cthulhu came from the board games Cthulhu : Death May Die and Eldritch Horror.
I personally think they should do the actual cthulu story In a movie. Not showing cthulu himself, but instead have it be a psychological/cosmic horror and thriller. Give people the creeps. I know when I first read cthulu I actually had a couple nightmares of it. If directed and acted properly it could actually work.
Have you seen the yellow sign dear brother