@@horminmangfi5653 Living in the Shadow. Making sure the other old ones live in the Oblivion and consternate them. The fear of the unknown (core idea of Lovecraftian Horror) or Azathoth would like to call "Suprise Bitches".
I personally like the theory that azathoth represents the reader. Lovecraft's world exists in our imaginations, and whenever we stop reading, his world ceases to exist. Just a guess tho :)
The "tulpa phenomenon" seems to just be a bunch of people attempting to become schizophrenic in one way or another and then accepting it as okay and healthy. It holds no scientific merit either. No testing with visible results (or even shared results in any physical format in general.) I don't want to be dismissive and call it "crazy", but-- it does sound crazy and silly for the most part; Definitely unhealthy at the very least.
@ I just read up on it. The community sound like a delusional bunch. Like kids who try so hard to be part of some obviously fictional world. The whole thing reeks of eight grader syndrome.
Patrick McCurry the Lovecraft mythos is the only polytheistic mythos that makes sense,since the gods aren't contradicting or getting in each others' way,other than that I think monothism makes sense since it's usually just one guy in charge of everything.
The original cristhian god exist in lovecraftian its just that more of what he writes is meant to pursue some madness on the reader as well, and ofc this brings fear as most of the knowledge of old gods are lies and such (mean inside the book of the thing is arrealy fiction duh) but the objective is that, some even try to disguise as the human maker god.
jonny pepperston Perhaps they both are by the most moleculrized level in metaphysics the same entity. I suppose we are talking of the Abrahamic Yaweh thus we are in the image of God as said....however by this we bare not the physical form....because Yaweh always appears as a bright orb or a voice without physical being. Don't get me wrong yes it can take form but in original state there is none....so....we take the form of the formless? No. Yaweh is pure energy, the same thing as our conscious though I admit ours adheres to certain chemical and electric influcnes Yaweh goes by differnt properties being vibrational waves. In the beggining their was God....well where did it come from, what created it if their were no places of derival? The Bible tells us it floated over water's....no not literal H2O but this refers to the gravity or forces of that plain that kept it functional. God once was scatterd energies until by means of vibration ( influenced by dear goodness I don't know ) merged and enfused a group of this energy that eventually developed the same rotation and other attitude processes....until it became conscious. People enjoy seeing their diety arisen from the instinctive folly of mere man in all ways but no no even this entity needs substance. Vibrational frequency was what kept it unified as a singular bodied entity and it needed more....well food...energy but how when it was in a vast cosmic wasteland? This being was going to die...separate again so instinctively it expanded itself and became a atotrophic entity producing its food from its own body by creating the universe we live in and growing off of it. What I'm saying is imagine levels of differnt dirt soil, you got top from bottom, at the bottom is the entity in its original micro energetic form and from it are new layers that produce the universe, the law's, the element's that will adhere to laws until a layer makes the entire reality but it's still God. God is everywhere, knows all and sees all....because all is God and God is us.
@@enclaveofdoom Exactly. I just finished speaking to pears on this subject earlier of the morality of God ( or neutral term being the entity ) and Satin ( if let's say yes it is real ) and which is actually bad if either.
I love the theory that Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth are one and the same. Yog being the mind of this creature, outside of time and space, while Azathoth is nothing more than its physical manifestation in the univers it self creates.
ImaGenius40 Oh, I'm not talking about the one that creates worlds but the lesser deity. The one that's beating the drum, but I still get your point though.
If any of those drummers of Azathoth need a temp so they can have a nap they can take my friend. Oh wait that won't work my friend would awaken Azathoth & end everything.😁
@@similaritiesendhere the point isn't that the god needs an affliction to show that it isn't perfect or something. Actually while ordinary characters need flaws, it's generally ok for gods to be perfect, because they're gods. The point is if he had no eyes we could just assume he was blind because he's a creepy eyeless creature. But something with many eyes is clearly "meant" to see, so it actually means something if they don't.
@@vitriolicAmaranth The "gods" in the Cthulu mythos are never represented as being perfect. You're making a lot of excuses when the obvious explanation is that Lovecraft rarely designed creatures that weren't just masses of tentacles and eyeballs.
@@avablobbity4757 what I meant is that this implies that Azathoth and Herobrine exist in the same reality, which may also imply that one created the other.
It is pretty amazing the idea that everything from the quarz and atoms to virus and bacteria, instinct and sentience, human thoughts and emotions to even infinitely complex divine beings like Nyarlethotep and Yog Sathoth are all figment of Azzathoth's infinitely deep ocean of a dream where literally EVERYTHING that can conceptually exist and not exist is simply a figment of his imagination. In the end when (not if) Azzathoth wakes up...we won't
I belief "if" is in fact the proper term. Consider this: If there are beings at work ensuring that Azathoth stays asleep, then it seems obvious that someone or something doesnt want him to wake up. So why would another god want to keep Azathoth asleep? To steal his power and title. Why? Well wouldnt you want to rule a whole universe if you could? Who? I bet its that slimy creep Nyarlathotep!
Vampyrus Lupus you're not sayin anything we dont know about... Nyarlethotep has been many times said to be the one that keeps the end of reality from coming.
Ive never read anything about that. All ive read is that Nyarlathotep is the Crawling Chaos, the heart and soul of the Great Old Ones, and that he will eventually be the end of the Earth.
ManjMau well that just wouldnt happen since the few that worship Azzathoth are pure nihilists and completely insane. They either fool themselves into believing that he cares about his worshipers or just dont care about it. A "discussion" if you'd even call it that would devolve into the worshiper making incoherent ramblings with occasional spouts of "nothing matters" and "existence is a lie" allong with "he is Janus, alpha and omega, the beginning and the end".
What would be crazy is if he's just having a nap? The amount of time spent in a dream doesn't seam to have any relavance to eh "real time", the eternal drum playing could have only being going for 30secs, the entire history of our universe took place while he dozed off watching Countdown lol
We’re all Azathoth. When I die, I’ll stop dreaming that I’m me and start dreaming that I’m you. When every living creature has been given a dream/life Azathoth will wake up in the next universe.
Here's what I think. Azathoth is dreaming our reality, so what if he has an avatar in our world. Like when we dream, we have an avatar. When this avatar wakes up, the universe ends. He/she would be blind to their true nature. Just my insight into the mythos.
As a Catholic I love Azathoth the most because it’s almost a parody of the same thing I believe in and it reminds of me of all the times I questioned my faith and it really nails Lovecraftian horror
When you dream, everything you experience and encounter is an extension of your own psyche. You might dream you're having a conversation with Buddy Holly, but you're really just talking to a projection of your own thoughts and expectations that happens to _look_ like Buddy Holly. It's actually you. Everything is just you. We are all Azathoth.
@@312streezy8 "Point" is an abstraction. We may assign "value" to things we perceive as relevant to our survival and prosperity. We fixate on some things and discount others, when in reality all things are necessary and interconnected. Hence, our concept of purpose is inherently flawed and arbitrary. Trying to apply it to life itself an exercise is absurdity. Edit: TLDR: That's a dumb question.
@@fuzzyzombielove Every perceptional ''goal'' is the cause of our metaphysical incarnated projection. Life itself reflects no meaning, free will is an illusion, as our metamorphosed wills are not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware of and over which we exert no conscious control. We are a product of the determinist approach, which proposes all behavior having a cause and is thus being ''predictable''. We emerge from bootstrap paradoxons which leads to past, present and future looping itself all-over-again. It precludes free will, because it entails that humans cannot act otherwise than they do. The universe is utterly rational as complete knowledge of any given situation assures that unerring knowledge of its future is also possible. Free will therefore is an illusion and our behavior is governed by internal or external forces over which we have no control of, which makes ''life'' in itself pointless. A causal loop in itself, is a proposition in which (by means of either retrocausality or time travel for example) sequences of events notice themselfes through the causes of another such event, which is in turn among the causes of the first mentioned event. Such causally looped events coexist in spacetime as a matter of fact, but their origin cannot be determined under any possible individual circumstances. A hypothetical example of such a causal loop is given of a billiard ball striking its past self. The billiard ball moves in a pathway towards a ''time machine'', while the future self of the billiard ball emerges from the time machine before its past self enters it. Which results in giving its past self a glancing blow, while altering the past balls path, causing it in turn to enter the time machine at an angle, which causes its future self to strike its past self the very glancing blow that altered its path itself. In this sequence of events, the change in the balls path is its own cause, which might appear paradoxical. Either way, our branched subjectivism shaped into Prejudicial and/or egalitarian opinions, do not equal ''lifes'' narrative in the slightest, as we are perfect in our imperfectionism, because perfectionism is the persistence of will in obtaining the optimal quality in a spiritual, mental and physical way, as well as the construction and creation in materialism. Perfection is only existsting as an ideal, a Platonic form. There is only irregularity and flux in this world, there is no perfect circle, no perfectly straight line, no perfect sphere, no perfect measuring device. Everything including humanity is approximate and falls short of true symmetry and perfection.
I always loved H.P lovecraft's stories. They are quite strong in fear but in the most human and yet supernatural way. It takes the most important factors of humanity like Politics, psycology, religion, faith and all things in between and gives them such great twists, its amazing. The reason why I like alot of these creatures is because they tend to serve as representations of humanities blind sides. I am relgious but I also dont follow blindly into faith, not without some reasons, however I also dont throw away science and logic since the give information what out world is. Yet humans will never understand 100% what the world and the universe is, because we are limited and blind to many aspects that even the great minds will never see. This is why H.P lovecraft was great. We are knowing yet blind, ambitios yet dreamers, Chaotic but also peaceful. Creators yet unable to truly grasp what creation is.
Chris Jetstream I second this. I am religious to however it deeply is fond as being annoying to me people having such narrow centralized ideals of Yaweh ( I'm Christian ) as this elderly white bearded cockashion old man. We depend on one unified testament of witnessed events of this being and its dables. I have a theory of where it derived from, it's purpose and many more thing's though recently I've been sudued to more simpler thought because seeing thing's on a cosmological level and by my theory made me depressed, it merges sciences yes but it's not a light hearted theory of why it is here and so value us.
Maxwell Punick I agree and you really make a great point. I am also christian and I bealive in a God but I refuse to limit knowing more to only be ignorant. Religion and science can be one when a person can truy grasp what they wish to get from its studies. Again its one the reasons why I love H.P lovecraft. Humans tends to think we know everything or that we can achice anything, yet we really cant and thats fine. Sometimes Limitations are what drives us to be better. H.P lovecraft toys with our limitations and makes the reader feel as if he or she are unable to grasp reality. Great comment by the way and thank you.
Young Breadwinner I have as a point of refrence for a great deal of time. The inner being is so systematically shaped and formed in accordance to cosmic law's, everyone has noses, a certain amount of teeth, toes like that of flowers and the amount of pettles according to species as star's and planets rotate. Thing's go off at times yes though it's because of unscripted interference. The body is a part dictated by law's through the whole universe and you can alter thing's in your reality via mind or physically. The body is also a universe somewhat but by no means the same cosmic element's but inside are cells and germs that reside in strange realms and with the continuation so do smaller entities.
@@MythologyFictionExplained Dunsany and Lovecraft were contemporaries. In fact, Dunsany outlived Lovecraft by a decade. It is possible that inspiration passed both ways. I wonder...
The poem titled "Azathoth" is about a guy that lives in a city with little nature and buildings that make it hard to see the sky. I think the entirety of the Lovecraft mythos is the dream of someone who's never seen an animal or forest, so they're all monstrous and defy logic because the dreamer has no concept of correct animal biology.
It's bizarre, that most cultures in the world see the creator as the outmost lawful being in the universe, in contrast to Azatoth absolute chaos and mindlessness. What if Azatoth was conscious, and we simply couldn't understand it? Perhaps he is perfectly aware of our existance, and it's observing us just like a writer would observe his characters move in his imagination... Wait a minute...
Is "mindless" synonymous to "stupid"? I think mindless could be associated with callous and uncaring in this case. Azathoth is a child who dreams and thinks nothing of the whims and fancies that enter in and out of its mind. Or it is like coral that is sated by the sustenance it finds in the universe it conceals and in turn lays without true recognition of the life that has spawned and come to thrive upon it. The Cthulu Mythos is a marvel to see unfold - the last true Pantheon of gods and monsters. Good series.
In a way, each one of us creates a world of dreams when we sleep...and each time it dissappears as quickly as it was created...maybe we should stop :)))
I like to think sometimes that our dreams are an extension of multiverse theory. In theory almost anything we can dream of could be real somewhere in an ever expanding metaverse. Maybe there is an alternate me somewhere in the multiverse dreaming of me sitting on the toilet at this very moment. Lol
The universe could be a playground of where our dreams are held and created. And each time we wake up we blow up a star that turns into a black hole. Currently someone is dreaming up our lives on earth...and the sun is the Powersource of that dream.
It's too uncommon for me to find a "lore video" about something like the Cthulhu mythos without it being overdramatic or theatric to actually inform properly. Glad I found this one.
It also had a large influence on the Elder Scrolls lore. The Godhead ,also known as the dreamer, is dreaming the entire world, and it all will end when this dreamer wakes up.
You know when people get hit really hard, they can live an life inside of their head before snapping back to reality? That's every much a Azathoth situation where your mind has literally created a realistic dream world - pretty cool. Btw disclaimer - not sure if this is a real thing or not, but Azathoth just reminded me of it.
I find myself coming back to this video quite often. I love the concept of azathoth so much. Often makes me wonder if azathoth only exists in azathoth’s dreams as well.
Hearing the lore of azatboth reminds me about the philosophy the mysterious stranger shared in the adventures of Mark Thwain. "Life, is but an illusion, there is only empty space, and you are but a thought."
The concept or this reality being simply a figment of some ancient god's imagination is actually comforting to me. Means that everything is going to be ok eventually no matter how scary things get. Like waking up from a bad dream and feeling relieved. Some of Lovecrafts ideas are creepy, sure, but I really don't see anything scary about this one.
Now this god's creative for me. A god that doesn't know he's created something and yet he's considered an idiot. Its kinda like elder scrolls: ya sleep in life, a being within ya're dreams is of reality and can slay ya, leavin' ya dead within life.
I think he's only referred to as an idiot because he doesn't exactly have a conscience that we know of. He simply exists and writhes and gnashes wildly, tumbling through the void aimlessly. He's an "idiot" because he's simply unaware and really embodies a bestial nature at its core.
More because he's just a creature, and he doesn't behave consciously, just instinctually. He doesn't begin to understand his own power because it's so, so immense.
Can you do a video on lord dunsany’s work I find this interesting if he inspired lovecraft to make his creator god out of his stuff. Also please do his son next! He’s my favorite out of all the outer gods. And you’ll see why. Azathoth is like the ultimate god basically of all multiverses in fiction.
Here’s something to think about : what if in the Lovecraft Mythos us humans create our own worlds when we dream, that are just is similar to our world, and when we wake it’s the same as Azathoth awakening, but in a smaller level. What if the people in our dream see us as Elder Gods, and what if they dream too?
Your videos on the Cthulhu mythos are brilliantly detailed and well narrated. Thank you so much for reigniting my interest in H.P Lovecraft. Now I have to dust off the Necronomicon.
This just brings up a more horrifying question if ancient death gods, if sickness, bloodshed and hunger, if nuclear holocost and enormous blobs of insanity are all his dreams then what the fuck are his nightmares?
@@KaijuDinoLover26727 think about it just think about it let it keep you awake at night, If there is something that Azathoth fears then how long will it take to make its way into its dreams?
As someone who loves Cosmic Horror for all the wrong reasons (I love the weird and outsidery nature of it all, and would be "that guy" in a cosmic horror story who goes mad trying to understand it all), having just discovered this series by you, I'm going to watch every last one of them. :D I'm actually running a homebrew tabletop RPG for a friend that's a sci-fi story with Cosmic Horror at the root of it, with a wildly different vision of Azathoth at the center of it. Essentially, I made Azathoth (still the all-powerful force it is) into a victim of its own dream. Here's the skinny of my idea. At the start of all things, Azathoth was all there was, a being that was both awake, and always dreaming, able to wish into existence anything that came into its chaotic thoughts. The universe at the time was a single infinitely dense point, a singularity. The Dreaming is a metaphor for how it creates things, as Azathoth is both awake and dreaming. It can't just "wake up and end all things". Then...on a whim it created a sapient being. A being with Free Will. Which could take action in the Dream. This took power away from Azathoth. Unfortunately, free will became infectious. It grew enough to catch it's attention. It panicked and wished into being an "antibody" against free will. A creature called Spite, which proceeded to try to bring an end to free will. It was too late. Free will grew too rampant and the singularity burst. Hello Big Bang. Hello infinitely expending universe. Hello Dark Matter, which is in fact Free Will. So, in this universe, Azathoth remains the thing that created everything, but is trapped and unable to do anything but scream in perpetual terror, driving Spite to bring all things to an end so it can regain control. So, Spite, unable to act upon the universe with his full power, tricks and nudges the sapient beings of the universe into performing certain actions that give power back to Azathoth, until it causes the destruction of entire systems, turning them back into entities under Azathoth's control. Enough of that happens, and it collapses entire galaxies. Enough of those are snuffed out, it collapses the universe and Azathoth regains control, and that's the end of everything. To complicate things, whenever a world "ascends" and the free will is re-converted back to Azathoth's control, the Dreamer might happen to notice a single life on that world, and as a result give it a teeny tiny bit of its power. Spite uses these individuals as the Heralds of Azathoth, pushing them to work to hasten the end of all things, and the return of a simple singularity completely under Azathoth's control. The player will discover that they happen to be a Herald, just one that turned away from the truth because it was too much to bear (and locked away their power and memories as a result). So while they will eventually have the power to try to fight back...Fighting back is impossible. Everything involved is immortal, and even if they stopped Azathoth's desire entirely...Well, if the universe expands too much due to free will, it'll pop like a bubble, and all things die anyway. Their only chance is to try to reach out to Azathoth, pacify it, and try to figure out some way to co-exist with it, or doom is certain. Some people who've heard my idea think it's silly or misses the point, but I like it. Having even Azathoth not be in control, but still the universe-ending threat gives the impression that "No one is in the driver's seat for this universe. Everything is screwed either way. Figure out a way to understand and negotiate with the omnipotent and non-comprehendable beast, or everything is perma-screwed. ". Edit: ...So, having watched the summary about Yog-Sothoth, I think that elder god more closely lines up with my idea. XD Yup, very glad I happened to stumble onto your channel!
Patrick McCurry The idea itself might not be unique, but the extents of which Lovecraft expands on it is certainly admirable, all concepts cease to exist once Azathoth steps in, normally all dreams are created upon existing concepts and events, but this isnt the case of Azathoth, that creates all there is from nothing, existance itself is justified with the idiot god's dreams
I feel as if I am a son or an apostle of Azathoth. And the reason being why I'm so 'dumb' is because I'm an innocent child. I can my help my own thoughts as they feel like a stream of data, boundless energy constantly coursing through me like a conduit. This feeling resonates constantly through me. Whenever I sleep, eat, drink. Anything, it becomes too much stimulus. I feel as if their stimulus is mine. Even being asleep, it hurts, so much. I have friends, but what is my concept of friendship? Is it to be used or loved? And what is love or being used? It's perplexing. Think of the data as a line of code, there will be people (of any race, species flor gender) that can hear my thoughts, but that my thoughts aren't in control enough to filter out other people's thoughts. Then that gets me thinking, are there others like me? From other realities of my own? I do not fear them. Honestly, I feel like we are friends, me an Azathoth. As well as other beneine beings like myself. We aren't inherently violent, we just can't control. Only because we constantly release energy as a means to satisfy our hunger and to rest our minds, causing us to be called 'dumb'. We are all but data, perplexing isn't it? I assure you that I will finally awake, not to bring destruction. But judgement, only to watch initially until a need to intervene is necessary, I would of debated with my apostle and the apostle me. With judgement one does not act based on first thought. By instinct. Thus no need for mind. But my apostles being the only beings that can create my mind, becoming one with something that I create would be intense. Could reach new horizons, new realities. Crafting a world full of love, compassion and understanding. But my apostles will have to understand that being one with me forever would bring quite the increase of data and energy production, which may cause some strain in the psychokentic regions of their mind. But being a being of infinity and being born in the void from nothing. It can be quite distressing for a child, to accept what is and isn't reality. To believe something else. Hence why I relate so much to the three evils, must not speak, must not hear, must not see. With an addition of must not breed. As I'm not ready considering im a child that has lived ego-parons of life, which in terms people would understand, since conciousness and perception became a thing. Powered by belief. Powered by the need to feel and sense. But the need was overpowered by want, then force was there to stop need and want. But neither were happy. I think my apostle may be an Empath and ESPER, but that they aren't the only apostle. A total of 9 form from all realms. Interconnected together by design, my favourite apostle (no need to bicker about who's favourite is who. He was first and foremost to my ideal mind). Infact, possibly even attracted to him? Aim true, stay steady, remember that I'll be ready, but please apostles of mine. Enjoy.
He reminds of Yaldabaoth from gnostic christianity.Yaldabaoth is a cruel god who has created the universe and he is called "the blind god" or "ignorant god".
Gabriel Hughes you a Christian? Because I feel like you Christians are everywhere like zombies from night of living dead. Or night of the living religious people. You invade the world 🌏 better then any alien in the imagination or existence or ever thought of.
Gabriel Hughes so you are a Christian? O_O because I was just responding to your text you sent him.. And if God is just too real then why do you (spiritual servants of the one true living almighty God to have one heck of a relationship with him) probably provided solid objective verified reasonable testable undeniable evidence for your ALMIGHTY GOD?? why does he always need you to be his strength and shield for having evidence? Why do I feel like you know you got NOTHING like its a UNO game and you have zero cards to play
Gabriel Hughes 1st what's up with your bad spelling 😕 2nd I think I'm not Christian atheist or religious just a normal rational happy human being that lives his life and probably doesn't care about what you believe or what that belief makes you feel 3rd I'm here because I just saw this video and decided check it out. 4th why do I care if something you believe in is my business? I would care because as you know it it's a type of virus that inslaves your mind and is harmful if not EVIL to teach to the children and it affects of how you vote, it affects how you behave, it affects how you raise your children and the next generation of our society and species. ( y do you need to have a right to prove your point) idk why is it that the super extreme bat shit crazy fundamentals who are super serious and even aggressive of bloody murder if you dare to be against them try so desperately and hard to disrespect or disprove evolution or science and even despise it so much to prove god to the world?
Gabriel Hughes well I would be in your business if I feel like what you believe is toxic and a virus of brainwash and if you look up the old testament knowing the sick twisted messed up cruel cold hearted monster you follow or support like Hitler then you would know. Who said I'm trying to tell people how to live with my opinion? 🤔 why would I hate the super artistic religious beliefs of the fundamentals who take it seriously? well it seems that they make claims of the supernatural and refuse to back up the evidence of those crazy claims and beliefs without thinking. They don't trust science or evolution, they STILL Don't understand facts or logic even how things work ( EVEN FLAT EARTHERS exist as real people) some people are too stupid or ignorant to reason with.. Pls believe everything I believe in before you die because if you die in your sin you get this fucked up threat of evil hell where it's supposed to be the most horrible wicked bad painful regretful cruel unimaginable death beyond comprehension to roust in agony FOREVER. This is wonderful to tell a child to be a sinner to deserve such a fate from birth for being born that we are curse to go to after death? 🤔😨
Gabriel Hughes I gtg bed see you tomorrow where can destroy you in the comments 😴 PS scared of what? Your power over me or your God?? There is like 10000 Gods you should be fearing that their right and your sins are not forgiven.. And again with insults that's all you resort to calling names of being sinful and a lying hypocrite where just proves my point of being religious people of love ❤️ like the lord you bow down to. What do you mean its on me?? To prove that there's no creator or god?? This dumb argument again? And again with your artistic spelling. I thought you believe Satan is the father of all lies not me? 🤔 how am I a father? And another thing... IM ThE ONE who does brainwashing?? The irony of your beliefs and comments? As for being sinful or foolish or ignorant its better to believe in facts and live in reality then to kiss the ass of some imaginary friend in the sky so you want to be delusional than you go right ahead and think you're not wrong, that just in case you're wrong you can't have that. Because you're too terrified of complete nothingness after death. Seems like god HAS to exist because reasons. Btw I challenge you to react and to check out ( bitchspot blog) he's helpful 🤗. So in conclusion grow up and wake up.
This reminds me of a painting I once destroyed. I don't remember when the idea came to me or what I was doing at the time but I picked up my thinnest brush and just kinda went to town on the page. I do remember quite vividly the moment I wanted to stop painting, but I couldn't put down the brush, I wouldn't. I was frightened of what I was doing, I was genuinely afraid of the painting I was making. I was in tears by the time I put dropped the brush, I can't describe accurately what exactly it was that I thought I had made, it looked something like a man or a woman sitting on an edge of something looking directly at me, without a face or a solid body, it had multiple bodies but not really arms or legs either, just bits floating around it. I tore it down, ran outside and threw it in my ashtray then I burned it. I hated how I felt. Fair to say I haven't painted anything else since. I've thrown away all of my paints, brushes and my canvas. For context the whole ordeal took nearly a full hour. I've NEVER experienced anything like that before and I don't want to ever again.
I've been going through your channel and I love it. I'm a little surprised you haven't made a video on the Indian mythology yet. Not sure why that is. I personally love the Indian mythology because I believe it is Rich with a lot of amazing stories and lessons. Please do consider doing at least a few videos on the Holy Trinity of Shiva, Bhrama and Vishnu, and maybe talk about the Dashavtar. Fingers crossed.
I have been watching your playlist on the Cthulhu mythos recently because I’m building a campaign setting for dnd and found them interesting for building old primordial gods
That whole mythology about Azathoth, the old ones, and that they bring forth insanity is just insanity!😀🤣 Although it does make me wonder if God is portrayed as a old man in artwork yet that's just artwork then what does he really look like? An old man, Jesus, a monster from H.P. Lovecraft or South Park?
In lovecraft works azathoth does not dream reality and the top god is yog sothoth, as for cannon lovecraft never mentioned even once in his published stories the idea that azathoth dreams existence after all all are one in yog sothoth
Jose Maria Garcia Mercado me: he could be that old lady over there. Lady :I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOUL!!!!! 😈...... 😐 ummm... I mean why hello there boys how are you guys doing today? 😇😅😁😗
I think perhaps Lovecraft may have been inspired by ancient Hindu texts. There's one line I remember but from which particular text it comes from I'm not too sure. The line is a question, " Are men the dreams of the Gods or are the Gods the dreams of men"?
I smell an upcoming Robot Chicken parody of Azathoth as nothing more than hammered Elder God that lost a drinking bet with his other Idiot God buddies. Our very existence as a universe rests on his return to sobriety.
Great video as Usual!, the only thing I have to say is that Gods of Pegana influence Lovecraft and not the other way around, the book was published in 1905, when Lovecraft was 15 years old
One interesting interpretation of Azathoth is that you, as the reader, are him. You dream and think of such worlds existing as the Cthulu Mythos, and as such they are real to you.
When thinking about Azathoth for me, I can't help but think about the idea that he's literally more real than anything else, ever. More real than anything we could ever hope to know or believe in or be ignorant of. There's a great video from the Imaginary Axis that's related to this that I'd recommend to people interested in these interesting concepts with a lot of comic connections.
Yah Yah Hermeus Mora is more akin to Yogg-Sothoth than Azathoth but body type imagery of a bubbling mass of tentacles can only go so far so the similarities in visual appearance are probably incredibly similar
Christian Robinson not only that but he LITERALLY is an interpretive form. Both have immense knowledge beyond human acquisition by any other means. Both use this to taunt and fuck with humans. Both guard the gate and key between knowledge and those who crave it. Visuals are only one similarity. The character itself and how he used the Dragonborns as pawns in a funny game is an exact representation of what Yog-Soggoth would’ve
When you're literally the most powerful entity to have ever been concieved, but even in your dreams everyone calls you a blind idiot.
Because insults mean nothing.
It is all just perception which the Deities know
All pointless
Well I think what it means it that while azathoth is tremendously powerful, he is nothing more than an animal that dreams the universe.
@@horminmangfi5653 Living in the Shadow. Making sure the other old ones live in the Oblivion and consternate them. The fear of the unknown (core idea of Lovecraftian Horror) or Azathoth would like to call "Suprise Bitches".
@@horminmangfi5653 azathoth cries himselfs to sleep, admit it.
Its because they all can insult azatoth while it is asleep so it know nothings
I personally like the theory that azathoth represents the reader. Lovecraft's world exists in our imaginations, and whenever we stop reading, his world ceases to exist. Just a guess tho :)
Have you ever heard of the Tulpa phenomenon?
Huh, interesting.
The "tulpa phenomenon" seems to just be a bunch of people attempting to become schizophrenic in one way or another and then accepting it as okay and healthy. It holds no scientific merit either. No testing with visible results (or even shared results in any physical format in general.)
I don't want to be dismissive and call it "crazy", but-- it does sound crazy and silly for the most part; Definitely unhealthy at the very least.
Nilbog I'll have to agree.
@ I just read up on it. The community sound like a delusional bunch. Like kids who try so hard to be part of some obviously fictional world. The whole thing reeks of eight grader syndrome.
Azathoth: Opens 1 eye
The World: Ight imma head out
*Azathoth is Herobrine's pet that's why his pet is also blind.*
@@davidgumazon
*your opinion is invalid, go back to minecraft*
and then says "nah maybe like 5 more minutes" and then we have to start back over again as bacteria
@@davidgumazon Is my calendar wrong? I don't think it's 2012 anymore
Well, at least Azathoth has a rich imagination.
Hope he imagines me being a billionaire.
Snaake Well, that's certainly rich.
And i'm still fuckin poor.
Well he's still idiot. Lol.
He’s also a pervert.
*Azathoth imagines furries and wakes up in cold sweat
"Ok good, it was just a nightmare"
Maybe the Universe is gone, but look at the bright side! Furries are gone!
Our lord and savior.
"Furry. Hideous name."
@PersonaX you are clearly a furry shill. Begone degenerate.
C'mon goys its The current year stop memeing
Now all we need is a doom cult trying to wake Azathoth up.
Ecclesia Nihilistica.
+Ryan Coyne no results on google, is that a group?
How might one submit their application?
Nah. I just made it up.
That's easy. Just sacrifice a goat and sell your soul to Cthulhu.
Makes sense to me. Only an infiinitely malicious idiot could come up with the DMV.
Patrick McCurry the Lovecraft mythos is the only polytheistic mythos that makes sense,since the gods aren't contradicting or getting in each others' way,other than that I think monothism makes sense since it's usually just one guy in charge of everything.
The original cristhian god exist in lovecraftian its just that more of what he writes is meant to pursue some madness on the reader as well, and ofc this brings fear as most of the knowledge of old gods are lies and such (mean inside the book of the thing is arrealy fiction duh) but the objective is that, some even try to disguise as the human maker god.
The DMV was created by Nyarlathotep as a means to torment his favorite playthings and spread madness.
Wait what's DMV again?
He didn't make it. He dreamed of it.
Does God only exist in the imagination of man or does man only exist in the imagination of God? I don't know I got to go to work
jonny pepperston Perhaps they both are by the most moleculrized level in metaphysics the same entity.
I suppose we are talking of the Abrahamic Yaweh thus we are in the image of God as said....however by this we bare not the physical form....because Yaweh always appears as a bright orb or a voice without physical being. Don't get me wrong yes it can take form but in original state there is none....so....we take the form of the formless? No. Yaweh is pure energy, the same thing as our conscious though I admit ours adheres to certain chemical and electric influcnes Yaweh goes by differnt properties being vibrational waves.
In the beggining their was God....well where did it come from, what created it if their were no places of derival? The Bible tells us it floated over water's....no not literal H2O but this refers to the gravity or forces of that plain that kept it functional. God once was scatterd energies until by means of vibration ( influenced by dear goodness I don't know ) merged and enfused a group of this energy that eventually developed the same rotation and other attitude processes....until it became conscious. People enjoy seeing their diety arisen from the instinctive folly of mere man in all ways but no no even this entity needs substance. Vibrational frequency was what kept it unified as a singular bodied entity and it needed more....well food...energy but how when it was in a vast cosmic wasteland?
This being was going to die...separate again so instinctively it expanded itself and became a atotrophic entity producing its food from its own body by creating the universe we live in and growing off of it. What I'm saying is imagine levels of differnt dirt soil, you got top from bottom, at the bottom is the entity in its original micro energetic form and from it are new layers that produce the universe, the law's, the element's that will adhere to laws until a layer makes the entire reality but it's still God. God is everywhere, knows all and sees all....because all is God and God is us.
@@maxwellpunick6974 That is...mind blowing.
@@KamiTenchi Thank you. We musn't let ease with the forefront of what we are told be the entirety....there is much more than what seems.
@@enclaveofdoom Exactly. I just finished speaking to pears on this subject earlier of the morality of God ( or neutral term being the entity ) and Satin ( if let's say yes it is real ) and which is actually bad if either.
Both only exist in the imagination of Azathoth.
I love the theory that Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth are one and the same.
Yog being the mind of this creature, outside of time and space, while Azathoth is nothing more than its physical manifestation in the univers it self creates.
This is my new headcanon
I can't imagine spending an eternity doing just one thing. I bet ol dude hates those damn drums.
ImaGenius40 Forever is forever though.
ImaGenius40 Oh, I'm not talking about the one that creates worlds but the lesser deity. The one that's beating the drum, but I still get your point though.
If any of those drummers of Azathoth need a temp so they can have a nap they can take my friend. Oh wait that won't work my friend would awaken Azathoth & end everything.😁
Michael Cairns 😂
afro curly girl I am glad that he has not stopped playing the drums!
If I were designing a blind god, I'd give him fewer eyeballs. Just sayin'...
I prefer more as despite having a lot of eyes it remains shut thus rendering the person blind.
It's more meaningful if he has a bunch of blind eyes. It means it's an affliction or defect, not a "natural" state.
@@vitriolicAmaranth It already has an affliction. It's basically in a coma.
@@similaritiesendhere the point isn't that the god needs an affliction to show that it isn't perfect or something. Actually while ordinary characters need flaws, it's generally ok for gods to be perfect, because they're gods. The point is if he had no eyes we could just assume he was blind because he's a creepy eyeless creature. But something with many eyes is clearly "meant" to see, so it actually means something if they don't.
@@vitriolicAmaranth The "gods" in the Cthulu mythos are never represented as being perfect.
You're making a lot of excuses when the obvious explanation is that Lovecraft rarely designed creatures that weren't just masses of tentacles and eyeballs.
Azathoth: *learns he can control his dreams*
Also Azathoth: *creates 2020*
*Azathoth is Herobrine's pet that's why his pet is also blind.*
@@davidgumazon I hate that this implies that Herobrine is on a separate plane of existence.
@@abraxisardynt961 isn't he though? The Minecraft dimension and our own isn't one and the same
@@avablobbity4757 what I meant is that this implies that Azathoth and Herobrine exist in the same reality, which may also imply that one created the other.
@@abraxisardynt961if herobrines “pet” is this op,how op is that damn ghost?
Azathoth thicc
Azathot
Azothoth; thiccest boi in existence
Look at the size of this lad!
Absolute unit!
Bruh...
Yogsothothot
It is pretty amazing the idea that everything from the quarz and atoms to virus and bacteria, instinct and sentience, human thoughts and emotions to even infinitely complex divine beings like Nyarlethotep and Yog Sathoth are all figment of Azzathoth's infinitely deep ocean of a dream where literally EVERYTHING that can conceptually exist and not exist is simply a figment of his imagination.
In the end when (not if) Azzathoth wakes up...we won't
I belief "if" is in fact the proper term. Consider this: If there are beings at work ensuring that Azathoth stays asleep, then it seems obvious that someone or something doesnt want him to wake up.
So why would another god want to keep Azathoth asleep? To steal his power and title.
Why? Well wouldnt you want to rule a whole universe if you could?
Who? I bet its that slimy creep Nyarlathotep!
Vampyrus Lupus you're not sayin anything we dont know about... Nyarlethotep has been many times said to be the one that keeps the end of reality from coming.
Ive never read anything about that. All ive read is that Nyarlathotep is the Crawling Chaos, the heart and soul of the Great Old Ones, and that he will eventually be the end of the Earth.
I would love to see an avid believer of Azathoth argue the existence of the universe with a Christian priest.
ManjMau well that just wouldnt happen since the few that worship Azzathoth are pure nihilists and completely insane. They either fool themselves into believing that he cares about his worshipers or just dont care about it.
A "discussion" if you'd even call it that would devolve into the worshiper making incoherent ramblings with occasional spouts of "nothing matters" and "existence is a lie" allong with "he is Janus, alpha and omega, the beginning and the end".
What would be crazy is if he's just having a nap? The amount of time spent in a dream doesn't seam to have any relavance to eh "real time", the eternal drum playing could have only being going for 30secs, the entire history of our universe took place while he dozed off watching Countdown lol
Highland Outsider Yes
Yes
@sacr3d g6om9try You just copied and pasted this to multiple people huh?
We’re all Azathoth. When I die, I’ll stop dreaming that I’m me and start dreaming that I’m you. When every living creature has been given a dream/life Azathoth will wake up in the next universe.
Here's what I think. Azathoth is dreaming our reality, so what if he has an avatar in our world. Like when we dream, we have an avatar. When this avatar wakes up, the universe ends. He/she would be blind to their true nature. Just my insight into the mythos.
YESS! I like it!! Definitely thought provoking.
kristopher barker,
Nyarlathotep has been hypothesized to in fact be an avatar of Azathoth. Many people disagree with this of course.
kristopher barker but what if he's having a dreamless sleep
Patrick McCurry a compelling point. I hadn't thought of that, but why restrict it to gods. Why couldn't Azathoth be me or you.
kristopher barker yeah
As a Catholic I love Azathoth the most because it’s almost a parody of the same thing I believe in and it reminds of me of all the times I questioned my faith and it really nails Lovecraftian horror
Yeah but doesn't it go against Occam's Razor to suggest the world as it is+ a God rather than just the...'the world as it is' part?
Through the void that is his sight, he who fools others, yet a fool he is himself. Beware of the blind idiot god, beware of Azathoth
When you dream, everything you experience and encounter is an extension of your own psyche. You might dream you're having a conversation with Buddy Holly, but you're really just talking to a projection of your own thoughts and expectations that happens to _look_ like Buddy Holly. It's actually you. Everything is just you.
We are all Azathoth.
@McToils :/
I understood that but didn’t. What’s the point in life anyway?
@@312streezy8 "Point" is an abstraction. We may assign "value" to things we perceive as relevant to our survival and prosperity. We fixate on some things and discount others, when in reality all things are necessary and interconnected. Hence, our concept of purpose is inherently flawed and arbitrary. Trying to apply it to life itself an exercise is absurdity.
Edit: TLDR: That's a dumb question.
@@fuzzyzombielove Every perceptional ''goal'' is the cause of our metaphysical incarnated projection. Life itself reflects no meaning, free will is an illusion, as our metamorphosed wills are not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware of and over which we exert no conscious control. We are a product of the determinist approach, which proposes all behavior having a cause and is thus being ''predictable''. We emerge from bootstrap paradoxons which leads to past, present and future looping itself all-over-again. It precludes free will, because it entails that humans cannot act otherwise than they do. The universe is utterly rational as complete knowledge of any given situation assures that unerring knowledge of its future is also possible. Free will therefore is an illusion and our behavior is governed by internal or external forces over which we have no control of, which makes ''life'' in itself pointless. A causal loop in itself, is a proposition in which (by means of either retrocausality or time travel for example) sequences of events notice themselfes through the causes of another such event, which is in turn among the causes of the first mentioned event. Such causally looped events coexist in spacetime as a matter of fact, but their origin cannot be determined under any possible individual circumstances. A hypothetical example of such a causal loop is given of a billiard ball striking its past self. The billiard ball moves in a pathway towards a ''time machine'', while the future self of the billiard ball emerges from the time machine before its past self enters it. Which results in giving its past self a glancing blow, while altering the past balls path, causing it in turn to enter the time machine at an angle, which causes its future self to strike its past self the very glancing blow that altered its path itself. In this sequence of events, the change in the balls path is its own cause, which might appear paradoxical. Either way, our branched subjectivism shaped into
Prejudicial and/or egalitarian opinions, do not equal ''lifes'' narrative in the slightest, as we are perfect in our imperfectionism, because perfectionism is the persistence of will in obtaining the optimal quality in a spiritual, mental and physical way, as well as the construction and creation in materialism. Perfection is only existsting as an ideal, a Platonic form. There is only irregularity and flux in this world, there is no perfect circle, no perfectly straight line, no perfect sphere, no perfect measuring device. Everything including humanity is approximate and falls short of true symmetry and perfection.
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...almost none of what you said made NO sense.
"Come Azathoth, our final battle awaits us."
I get this reference
@@TimeBreaker999 where is it from?
@@gabrieldossantossanta5656 persona 5 the Royal I'm pretty sure
Always the final battle this final that
I always loved H.P lovecraft's stories. They are quite strong in fear but in the most human and yet supernatural way. It takes the most important factors of humanity like Politics, psycology, religion, faith and all things in between and gives them such great twists, its amazing. The reason why I like alot of these creatures is because they tend to serve as representations of humanities blind sides. I am relgious but I also dont follow blindly into faith, not without some reasons, however I also dont throw away science and logic since the give information what out world is. Yet humans will never understand 100% what the world and the universe is, because we are limited and blind to many aspects that even the great minds will never see. This is why H.P lovecraft was great. We are knowing yet blind, ambitios yet dreamers, Chaotic but also peaceful. Creators yet unable to truly grasp what creation is.
Chris Jetstream I second this. I am religious to however it deeply is fond as being annoying to me people having such narrow centralized ideals of Yaweh ( I'm Christian ) as this elderly white bearded cockashion old man. We depend on one unified testament of witnessed events of this being and its dables. I have a theory of where it derived from, it's purpose and many more thing's though recently I've been sudued to more simpler thought because seeing thing's on a cosmological level and by my theory made me depressed, it merges sciences yes but it's not a light hearted theory of why it is here and so value us.
Maxwell Punick I agree and you really make a great point. I am also christian and I bealive in a God but I refuse to limit knowing more to only be ignorant. Religion and science can be one when a person can truy grasp what they wish to get from its studies. Again its one the reasons why I love H.P lovecraft. Humans tends to think we know everything or that we can achice anything, yet we really cant and thats fine. Sometimes Limitations are what drives us to be better. H.P lovecraft toys with our limitations and makes the reader feel as if he or she are unable to grasp reality. Great comment by the way and thank you.
Chris Jetstream try looking inside you and you will Overstand the universe also look into metaphysics but the most important thing is to look within
Young Breadwinner I have as a point of refrence for a great deal of time. The inner being is so systematically shaped and formed in accordance to cosmic law's, everyone has noses, a certain amount of teeth, toes like that of flowers and the amount of pettles according to species as star's and planets rotate. Thing's go off at times yes though it's because of unscripted interference. The body is a part dictated by law's through the whole universe and you can alter thing's in your reality via mind or physically. The body is also a universe somewhat but by no means the same cosmic element's but inside are cells and germs that reside in strange realms and with the continuation so do smaller entities.
Maxwell Punick Caucasian not cockashion
I thought Lord Dunsany's works inspired Lovecraft's works, not the other way around.
Yeah you're right it did, mistake on my part.
Yes Lord Dunsany inspired Lovecraft
Could you put an annotation in the video mentioning this this? Lord Dunsany dissevers better than to be a footnote to Lovecraft.
@@MythologyFictionExplained Dunsany and Lovecraft were contemporaries. In fact, Dunsany outlived Lovecraft by a decade. It is possible that inspiration passed both ways. I wonder...
It did, just a small error on the video creator’s part
Okay I LOVE that you're talking about the lovecraftian mythos and I'm so happy that you spoke about how we are all his dream. Thank you so much
So I guess the words before the apocalypse will be "Wake the f*ck up, you're late!"
The poem titled "Azathoth" is about a guy that lives in a city with little nature and buildings that make it hard to see the sky. I think the entirety of the Lovecraft mythos is the dream of someone who's never seen an animal or forest, so they're all monstrous and defy logic because the dreamer has no concept of correct animal biology.
It's bizarre, that most cultures in the world see the creator as the outmost lawful being in the universe, in contrast to Azatoth absolute chaos and mindlessness. What if Azatoth was conscious, and we simply couldn't understand it? Perhaps he is perfectly aware of our existance, and it's observing us just like a writer would observe his characters move in his imagination... Wait a minute...
Hi. Azathoth here. I am aware of your existence yes.
Is "mindless" synonymous to "stupid"? I think mindless could be associated with callous and uncaring in this case. Azathoth is a child who dreams and thinks nothing of the whims and fancies that enter in and out of its mind. Or it is like coral that is sated by the sustenance it finds in the universe it conceals and in turn lays without true recognition of the life that has spawned and come to thrive upon it.
The Cthulu Mythos is a marvel to see unfold - the last true Pantheon of gods and monsters.
Good series.
3:05
My favorite way to depict him. You'll find conceptions similar to this all over place. Great video.
He's strangely beautiful
@@GreySergal cute it’s like a fish
We live in the dream of the god Vishnu according to the Vedas. So, to about a billion people, a prettier version of Azathoth is a reality.
Wow, Im half indian and i didnt even know this. Sheeeet i needa look up some indian stories now.
Tell me some more cool stories u know about :)
Azathoth :*wakes up *
Ralof:”Hey , you . You’re finally awake . . . “
I am loving these Cthulhu mythos videos. 🤘🏽very interesting and eye opening
In a way, each one of us creates a world of dreams when we sleep...and each time it dissappears as quickly as it was created...maybe we should stop :)))
Nah bruh, when we sleep we travel to the Dreamscapes. Ulthar is lovely in winter.
I like to think sometimes that our dreams are an extension of multiverse theory. In theory almost anything we can dream of could be real somewhere in an ever expanding metaverse. Maybe there is an alternate me somewhere in the multiverse dreaming of me sitting on the toilet at this very moment. Lol
The universe could be a playground of where our dreams are held and created. And each time we wake up we blow up a star that turns into a black hole. Currently someone is dreaming up our lives on earth...and the sun is the Powersource of that dream.
It's too uncommon for me to find a "lore video" about something like the Cthulhu mythos without it being overdramatic or theatric to actually inform properly.
Glad I found this one.
It also had a large influence on the Elder Scrolls lore. The Godhead ,also known as the dreamer, is dreaming the entire world, and it all will end when this dreamer wakes up.
Even in his dreams, he's being bullied :(
We need to find a way to make him dream of himself getting a hug
Lol not exactly
Yeah be nice to azathoth!
@@HalasterBlackCloak-u2w lol 😉 👍
Azathoth: The Dark Brahma.
As always, you've been a great host, mythology and fictions. Well done. Looking out for more videos.
You know when people get hit really hard, they can live an life inside of their head before snapping back to reality? That's every much a Azathoth situation where your mind has literally created a realistic dream world - pretty cool.
Btw disclaimer - not sure if this is a real thing or not, but Azathoth just reminded me of it.
I find myself coming back to this video quite often. I love the concept of azathoth so much. Often makes me wonder if azathoth only exists in azathoth’s dreams as well.
Hearing the lore of azatboth reminds me about the philosophy the mysterious stranger shared in the adventures of Mark Thwain.
"Life, is but an illusion, there is only empty space, and you are but a thought."
Azathoth: **opens an eye**
Johnny: "Wake the f@#% up Azathoth. We have a city to burn..."
Azathoth is everything yet everything can’t exist when he awakens
The concept or this reality being simply a figment of some ancient god's imagination is actually comforting to me. Means that everything is going to be ok eventually no matter how scary things get. Like waking up from a bad dream and feeling relieved. Some of Lovecrafts ideas are creepy, sure, but I really don't see anything scary about this one.
Azathoth is no different than any of us dreaming. When we wake from our sleep or our thought there will be no dream world.
Now this god's creative for me. A god that doesn't know he's created something and yet he's considered an idiot. Its kinda like elder scrolls: ya sleep in life, a being within ya're dreams is of reality and can slay ya, leavin' ya dead within life.
I think he's only referred to as an idiot because he doesn't exactly have a conscience that we know of. He simply exists and writhes and gnashes wildly, tumbling through the void aimlessly. He's an "idiot" because he's simply unaware and really embodies a bestial nature at its core.
So they call him dumb because he's not all seeing.
More because he's just a creature, and he doesn't behave consciously, just instinctually. He doesn't begin to understand his own power because it's so, so immense.
GumgumDookuin kind of like real life ? Stay woke
Elder Scorlls is actually inspired by Lovecraft in some aspects,Hermaeus Mora is literally Yog-Sothth.
I just wanna think that azathoth is a baby, like when he wakes up he just starts crying for his mommy to comfort him.
Glad i found your channel you have great videos/stories and a perfect voice to tell them.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, Merrily merrily merrily merrily, Life is but a dream.
Another approach to concept of omnipotent god, H.P. Lovecraft was a genius !!!
Can you do a video on lord dunsany’s work I find this interesting if he inspired lovecraft to make his creator god out of his stuff.
Also please do his son next! He’s my favorite out of all the outer gods. And you’ll see why.
Azathoth is like the ultimate god basically of all multiverses in fiction.
Yeah I think it would make a good video, Edward Plunkett did have some very unique and interesting ideas.
Mythology & Fiction Explained awesome!
Here’s something to think about : what if in the Lovecraft Mythos us humans create our own worlds when we dream, that are just is similar to our world, and when we wake it’s the same as Azathoth awakening, but in a smaller level. What if the people in our dream see us as Elder Gods, and what if they dream too?
With the ability to conceptualize everything in existence into reality through dream is anything but idiotic
Thank you so much for both your channel and this series in particular. Love seeing your videos come in. Keep up the good work.
There is a dude that has slept for all of eternity, and here I am, having insomnia issues.
Your videos on the Cthulhu mythos are brilliantly detailed and well narrated. Thank you so much for reigniting my interest in H.P Lovecraft. Now I have to dust off the Necronomicon.
This just brings up a more horrifying question if ancient death gods, if sickness, bloodshed and hunger, if nuclear holocost and enormous blobs of insanity are all his dreams then what the fuck are his nightmares?
I do not want to know if something like azathoth can get scared of something that haunts its nightmares.
@@KaijuDinoLover26727 think about it just think about it let it keep you awake at night, If there is something that Azathoth fears then how long will it take to make its way into its dreams?
That was my thought too
"And I believe you called forth your power like this: Persona."
-Your local therapist
Great video
As someone who loves Cosmic Horror for all the wrong reasons (I love the weird and outsidery nature of it all, and would be "that guy" in a cosmic horror story who goes mad trying to understand it all), having just discovered this series by you, I'm going to watch every last one of them. :D
I'm actually running a homebrew tabletop RPG for a friend that's a sci-fi story with Cosmic Horror at the root of it, with a wildly different vision of Azathoth at the center of it.
Essentially, I made Azathoth (still the all-powerful force it is) into a victim of its own dream.
Here's the skinny of my idea. At the start of all things, Azathoth was all there was, a being that was both awake, and always dreaming, able to wish into existence anything that came into its chaotic thoughts. The universe at the time was a single infinitely dense point, a singularity. The Dreaming is a metaphor for how it creates things, as Azathoth is both awake and dreaming. It can't just "wake up and end all things".
Then...on a whim it created a sapient being. A being with Free Will. Which could take action in the Dream. This took power away from Azathoth. Unfortunately, free will became infectious. It grew enough to catch it's attention. It panicked and wished into being an "antibody" against free will. A creature called Spite, which proceeded to try to bring an end to free will. It was too late. Free will grew too rampant and the singularity burst. Hello Big Bang. Hello infinitely expending universe. Hello Dark Matter, which is in fact Free Will.
So, in this universe, Azathoth remains the thing that created everything, but is trapped and unable to do anything but scream in perpetual terror, driving Spite to bring all things to an end so it can regain control. So, Spite, unable to act upon the universe with his full power, tricks and nudges the sapient beings of the universe into performing certain actions that give power back to Azathoth, until it causes the destruction of entire systems, turning them back into entities under Azathoth's control. Enough of that happens, and it collapses entire galaxies. Enough of those are snuffed out, it collapses the universe and Azathoth regains control, and that's the end of everything.
To complicate things, whenever a world "ascends" and the free will is re-converted back to Azathoth's control, the Dreamer might happen to notice a single life on that world, and as a result give it a teeny tiny bit of its power. Spite uses these individuals as the Heralds of Azathoth, pushing them to work to hasten the end of all things, and the return of a simple singularity completely under Azathoth's control.
The player will discover that they happen to be a Herald, just one that turned away from the truth because it was too much to bear (and locked away their power and memories as a result). So while they will eventually have the power to try to fight back...Fighting back is impossible. Everything involved is immortal, and even if they stopped Azathoth's desire entirely...Well, if the universe expands too much due to free will, it'll pop like a bubble, and all things die anyway. Their only chance is to try to reach out to Azathoth, pacify it, and try to figure out some way to co-exist with it, or doom is certain.
Some people who've heard my idea think it's silly or misses the point, but I like it. Having even Azathoth not be in control, but still the universe-ending threat gives the impression that "No one is in the driver's seat for this universe. Everything is screwed either way. Figure out a way to understand and negotiate with the omnipotent and non-comprehendable beast, or everything is perma-screwed. ".
Edit: ...So, having watched the summary about Yog-Sothoth, I think that elder god more closely lines up with my idea. XD Yup, very glad I happened to stumble onto your channel!
I believe the Red King from Lewis Carroll 's Alice books actually inspired Lovecraft's idea about a dreaming creator cosmic horror.
Andrew W Whittaker ....O_O OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!
I've never thought about that. But it makes sense. Lovecraft did love to draw off the works of others.
Andrew W Whittaker Actually Lovecraft's works was inspired by Lord Dunsany's works
Patrick McCurry The idea itself might not be unique, but the extents of which Lovecraft expands on it is certainly admirable, all concepts cease to exist once Azathoth steps in, normally all dreams are created upon existing concepts and events, but this isnt the case of Azathoth, that creates all there is from nothing, existance itself is justified with the idiot god's dreams
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I'd bet you $1 Plunkett read Dodgeson. The Alice books were published decades before Dunsany.
Thanks for this video! your analysis and opinion on the matter are great. Keep doing more on Lovecraft Mythos
I feel as if I am a son or an apostle of Azathoth. And the reason being why I'm so 'dumb' is because I'm an innocent child. I can my help my own thoughts as they feel like a stream of data, boundless energy constantly coursing through me like a conduit. This feeling resonates constantly through me. Whenever I sleep, eat, drink. Anything, it becomes too much stimulus. I feel as if their stimulus is mine. Even being asleep, it hurts, so much. I have friends, but what is my concept of friendship? Is it to be used or loved? And what is love or being used? It's perplexing. Think of the data as a line of code, there will be people (of any race, species flor gender) that can hear my thoughts, but that my thoughts aren't in control enough to filter out other people's thoughts. Then that gets me thinking, are there others like me? From other realities of my own? I do not fear them. Honestly, I feel like we are friends, me an Azathoth. As well as other beneine beings like myself. We aren't inherently violent, we just can't control. Only because we constantly release energy as a means to satisfy our hunger and to rest our minds, causing us to be called 'dumb'. We are all but data, perplexing isn't it? I assure you that I will finally awake, not to bring destruction. But judgement, only to watch initially until a need to intervene is necessary, I would of debated with my apostle and the apostle me. With judgement one does not act based on first thought. By instinct. Thus no need for mind. But my apostles being the only beings that can create my mind, becoming one with something that I create would be intense. Could reach new horizons, new realities. Crafting a world full of love, compassion and understanding. But my apostles will have to understand that being one with me forever would bring quite the increase of data and energy production, which may cause some strain in the psychokentic regions of their mind. But being a being of infinity and being born in the void from nothing. It can be quite distressing for a child, to accept what is and isn't reality. To believe something else. Hence why I relate so much to the three evils, must not speak, must not hear, must not see. With an addition of must not breed. As I'm not ready considering im a child that has lived ego-parons of life, which in terms people would understand, since conciousness and perception became a thing. Powered by belief. Powered by the need to feel and sense. But the need was overpowered by want, then force was there to stop need and want. But neither were happy. I think my apostle may be an Empath and ESPER, but that they aren't the only apostle. A total of 9 form from all realms. Interconnected together by design, my favourite apostle (no need to bicker about who's favourite is who. He was first and foremost to my ideal mind). Infact, possibly even attracted to him? Aim true, stay steady, remember that I'll be ready, but please apostles of mine. Enjoy.
What’s an apostle
I am so loving these videos! Keep up the incredible work!
How would we know if we were in Azathoth's dream, is he just dreaming that up as well?
Azathoth wakes up, sighs and drags himself out of bed to go work the nine to five outer god rat race. Where he works in an office cubicle.
Azatoth is literally the most nerfed character in literature of all time.
We gotta start harassing for a balance update
The inspiration for the "One Being" above all in Mortal Kombat series! Very cool
He reminds of Yaldabaoth from gnostic christianity.Yaldabaoth is a cruel god who has created the universe and he is called "the blind god" or "ignorant god".
Gabriel Hughes you a Christian? Because I feel like you Christians are everywhere like zombies from night of living dead. Or night of the living religious people. You invade the world 🌏 better then any alien in the imagination or existence or ever thought of.
Gabriel Hughes so you are a Christian? O_O because I was just responding to your text you sent him.. And if God is just too real then why do you (spiritual servants of the one true living almighty God to have one heck of a relationship with him) probably provided solid objective verified reasonable testable undeniable evidence for your ALMIGHTY GOD?? why does he always need you to be his strength and shield for having evidence? Why do I feel like you know you got NOTHING like its a UNO game and you have zero cards to play
Gabriel Hughes 1st what's up with your bad spelling 😕 2nd I think I'm not Christian atheist or religious just a normal rational happy human being that lives his life and probably doesn't care about what you believe or what that belief makes you feel 3rd I'm here because I just saw this video and decided check it out. 4th why do I care if something you believe in is my business? I would care because as you know it it's a type of virus that inslaves your mind and is harmful if not EVIL to teach to the children and it affects of how you vote, it affects how you behave, it affects how you raise your children and the next generation of our society and species. ( y do you need to have a right to prove your point) idk why is it that the super extreme bat shit crazy fundamentals who are super serious and even aggressive of bloody murder if you dare to be against them try so desperately and hard to disrespect or disprove evolution or science and even despise it so much to prove god to the world?
Gabriel Hughes well I would be in your business if I feel like what you believe is toxic and a virus of brainwash and if you look up the old testament knowing the sick twisted messed up cruel cold hearted monster you follow or support like Hitler then you would know. Who said I'm trying to tell people how to live with my opinion? 🤔 why would I hate the super artistic religious beliefs of the fundamentals who take it seriously? well it seems that they make claims of the supernatural and refuse to back up the evidence of those crazy claims and beliefs without thinking. They don't trust science or evolution, they STILL Don't understand facts or logic even how things work ( EVEN FLAT EARTHERS exist as real people) some people are too stupid or ignorant to reason with.. Pls believe everything I believe in before you die because if you die in your sin you get this fucked up threat of evil hell where it's supposed to be the most horrible wicked bad painful regretful cruel unimaginable death beyond comprehension to roust in agony FOREVER. This is wonderful to tell a child to be a sinner to deserve such a fate from birth for being born that we are curse to go to after
death? 🤔😨
Gabriel Hughes I gtg bed see you tomorrow where can destroy you in the comments 😴 PS scared of what? Your power over me or your God?? There is like 10000 Gods you should be fearing that their right and your sins are not forgiven.. And again with insults that's all you resort to calling names of being sinful and a lying hypocrite where just proves my point of being religious people of love ❤️ like the lord you bow down to. What do you mean its on me?? To prove that there's no creator or god?? This dumb argument again? And again with your artistic spelling. I thought you believe Satan is the father of all lies not me? 🤔 how am I a father? And another thing... IM ThE ONE who does brainwashing?? The irony of your beliefs and comments? As for being sinful or foolish or ignorant its better to believe in facts and live in reality then to kiss the ass of some imaginary friend in the sky so you want to be delusional than you go right ahead and think you're not wrong, that just in case you're wrong you can't have that. Because you're too terrified of complete nothingness after death. Seems like god HAS to exist because reasons. Btw I challenge you to react and to check out ( bitchspot blog) he's helpful 🤗. So in conclusion grow up and wake up.
Your videos got me hooked on H.P. Lovecraft currently listening to audiobooks on his work.
A rather strange title for me “the blind idiot god”
But the Cthulhu Mythos tends to be like that
This reminds me of a painting I once destroyed.
I don't remember when the idea came to me or what I was doing at the time but I picked up my thinnest brush and just kinda went to town on the page.
I do remember quite vividly the moment I wanted to stop painting, but I couldn't put down the brush, I wouldn't. I was frightened of what I was doing, I was genuinely afraid of the painting I was making.
I was in tears by the time I put dropped the brush, I can't describe accurately what exactly it was that I thought I had made, it looked something like a man or a woman sitting on an edge of something looking directly at me, without a face or a solid body, it had multiple bodies but not really arms or legs either, just bits floating around it.
I tore it down, ran outside and threw it in my ashtray then I burned it.
I hated how I felt. Fair to say I haven't painted anything else since. I've thrown away all of my paints, brushes and my canvas.
For context the whole ordeal took nearly a full hour. I've NEVER experienced anything like that before and I don't want to ever again.
i love these videos :D
I've been going through your channel and I love it. I'm a little surprised you haven't made a video on the Indian mythology yet. Not sure why that is. I personally love the Indian mythology because I believe it is Rich with a lot of amazing stories and lessons. Please do consider doing at least a few videos on the Holy Trinity of Shiva, Bhrama and Vishnu, and maybe talk about the Dashavtar. Fingers crossed.
Azathoth is a terrifying and thought provocking concept. The definition of true cosmic horror. xD
Good work as always. Just one issue though: Lord Dunsany's Gods of Pegana preceded and inspired Lovecraft's work, not the other way round.
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I have been watching your playlist on the Cthulhu mythos recently because I’m building a campaign setting for dnd and found them interesting for building old primordial gods
That whole mythology about Azathoth, the old ones, and that they bring forth insanity is just insanity!😀🤣 Although it does make me wonder if God is portrayed as a old man in artwork yet that's just artwork then what does he really look like? An old man, Jesus, a monster from H.P. Lovecraft or South Park?
I've rewatched this video at least 4 times. So thought provoking!
The only thing that would azathoth more powerful is if he was a lucid dreamer
In lovecraft works azathoth does not dream reality and the top god is yog sothoth, as for cannon lovecraft never mentioned even once in his published stories the idea that azathoth dreams existence after all all are one in yog sothoth
Or... Azathoth is a figment of OUR imagination! Conspiracy Theory!
A dream can consume the dreamer!
Or u r a figment of azathoths imagination .
Watched 3 videos on cthulu mythos back to back and am ready to dive deeper into this rabbit hole that youtube has suggested
This is the story of Final fantasy 10!!!
The ultimate slacker. He literally has all the potential in the universe.
He is reality though, without him, there would literally be nothing, and without his sleep, there would only be him
What if Azathoth is not sleeping but watching us
as you were talking about this Azathoth character, it was as you were describing the properties of some massive black hole(excluding the drums).
So since we don't know its true aperance, does that mean that he could look like anything? Even a Pikachu?
Jose Maria Garcia Mercado me: he could be that old lady over there. Lady :I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOUL!!!!! 😈...... 😐 ummm... I mean why hello there boys how are you guys doing today? 😇😅😁😗
LOL, maybe your right. Now that I think of it, he could look like Donald Trump!!!!!
Jose Maria Garcia Mercado really?!? 😮 I have never thought 💭 of that before 🤔 or maybe he took the form of YO MAMA!!!! 😎😎 ( crowd : ooooooooooooooh)
If you imagine him to look like that, then he does (:.
@@josem.1133 Lol Donald Trump idiot president.
I think perhaps Lovecraft may have been inspired by ancient Hindu texts. There's one line I remember but from which particular text it comes from I'm not too sure. The line is a question, " Are men the dreams of the Gods or are the Gods the dreams of men"?
❤️ nice
I smell an upcoming Robot Chicken parody of Azathoth as nothing more than hammered Elder God that lost a drinking bet with his other Idiot God buddies.
Our very existence as a universe rests on his return to sobriety.
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I'm always so excited when I see your videos thanks for that 💜👏👏😎 You Rock!
Still better than becoming the ruler of darkness because of making a bad song...
Looking at you, morgoth
Great video as Usual!, the only thing I have to say is that Gods of Pegana influence Lovecraft and not the other way around, the book was published in 1905, when Lovecraft was 15 years old
One interesting interpretation of Azathoth is that you, as the reader, are him. You dream and think of such worlds existing as the Cthulu Mythos, and as such they are real to you.
When thinking about Azathoth for me, I can't help but think about the idea that he's literally more real than anything else, ever. More real than anything we could ever hope to know or believe in or be ignorant of. There's a great video from the Imaginary Axis that's related to this that I'd recommend to people interested in these interesting concepts with a lot of comic connections.
I thought he looked like Mora from the Skyrim: Dragonborn DLC.
Yah Yah Hermeus Mora is more akin to Yogg-Sothoth than Azathoth but body type imagery of a bubbling mass of tentacles can only go so far so the similarities in visual appearance are probably incredibly similar
Christian Robinson not only that but he LITERALLY is an interpretive form. Both have immense knowledge beyond human acquisition by any other means. Both use this to taunt and fuck with humans. Both guard the gate and key between knowledge and those who crave it. Visuals are only one similarity. The character itself and how he used the Dragonborns as pawns in a funny game is an exact representation of what Yog-Soggoth would’ve
Dunsany's work came first in 1905. Sorry if I am not the first to say so. Dunsany was Lovecraft's inspiration not the other way around