I'd love to be able to put my color associations with cthulhu mythos entities into some sort of coherent order but I can't so instead I enter the discord chat and say shit like "daoloth is blue" and "cthulhu is green but everyone makes him the wrong green" and "azathoth is blue and red but not purple"
I commissioned this from Dreamalgia a while back, and I thought I’d post it here!
I play a Call of Cthulhu game, and a frequent character is the outer god, Daoloth! He’s been changed from the source, and he doesn’t really have much of a personality or motivation his original books, but he’s become one of my favorite characters because of how unique he is as a god.
Maybe I’ll write out a bit more about the campaign later, but for now, I just wanted to put up some art!
The Gods inside Holmes might be Mitra (also known as Mithra, Maitreya and Mithras) and Nyx or Mitra and Aletheia
I know Mithra from Hindu mythology! I have heard quite a bit about Theosophy's Maitreya and the Zoroastrian take on Mithra and I have to say in some ways it can be really fitting...
For Nyx I wasn't really understanding at first but I did ask one of Holmes/EXTRA's authors regarding the matter and it seems like a pretty good guess 🤔 admittedly I am not aware about Greek mythology at all... don't know anything about Aletheia (Google says it is the concept of disclosing the truth)
It is really interesting to speculate! A lot of guesses seem to play on the concept of 'truth and it's revealing', which does play into Holmes' nature...but the Apostles seem to take up a role contradictory to what their true self is, so I really wonder whether we are barking up the right tree or not....
Well! We can only find out in December! Hopefully?!
Titles: The devourer in the mist, devourer of stars, prn who devourers stars, the faceless one, the dark one, the outsider, the horror, the one of fear, prn who is fear, prn who is above all, the one of the stars, the great old one, the one of the forest, the lost one, the unimaginable horror, the eternal one, prn who is eternal
HI MECHS FANS! THIS IS A POST ABOUT TBI AND LOVECRAFTIAN MYTH AFTER A FANWIKI RABBIT HOLE!
i was always like, kinda baffled at the fact that the bifrost is associated with yog-sothoth, when the biggest lovecraft thing, color out of space, is its own entity entirely? WELL yog-sothoth IS canonically described as a "congeries [jumble] of iridescent spheres" so i guess! it makes sense!
you could also argue that the color out of space is ALSO associated with the bifrost, ie the eggs from the meteor being what hatched into the squamous things that swarm the train
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE OUTER GODS YOU SHOULD INCLUDE IN TBI THINGS
Daoloth, the render of the veils, is an amorphous metal god that, among other things, can be invoked to see things as they really are (under the assumption that all humans view things through a veil to retain their sanity). Which sounds a LOT like Loki's "My eyes now clear" moment. Let Loki be Daoloth's pursedog.
Nyarlathotep!! As the most human of the outer gods, and as the one who enacts their will, he spends the most time around humans. He also prefers spreading madness over just straight up killing people, so you could tie him to the black box (spreading madness and leaving one survivor)! If you know that in the Norse myth Baldur's death was possibly planned by Odin, you could also say that Nyarlathotep influenced Baldur, thus setting up the eventual Bifrost Incident.
Tru'Nembra isn't very involved, but he is the unsentient flute that lulls Azathoth to sleep. Daemon flute that keeps it dreaming, etc.
AND! AND! The All-mother is not just a genderbend of Odin's All-Father status in myth. It's a title belonging to Shub-Niggurath, also known as "the black goat with a thousand young". She's described as "An enormous mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths, and short, writhing goat legs." AND SHE IS YOG-SOTHOTH'S MATE! She also continuously spits forth these things called "dark young" which are tentacles and hoofs in the shape and size of a tree. Fucked up.
IN SHORT! USE MORE LOVECRAFT IN YOUR TBI WORKS!!!!!!!! DO IT!
i’m reading this thread about holmes and they brought up Daoloth as a true identity for holmes and one of the comment brought up moriarty trying to enlist enkidu in an interlude
and it’s absolutely obliterating me.
but it makes absolute complete sense that MORIARTY would even seek enkidu out as PROMETHEUS is also seen as the maker of mankind from clay in some myths
................everything falls so neatly into place
but the truly frightening thing, is this Daoloth one, hastur would be an obvious theme but it still seems far too remote as a king of yellow that fgo holmes does not truly embody much...but daoloth...........?
“Daoloth's indescribable shape causes viewers to go mad at the sight of him; thus, he must be summoned in
pitch-black darkness
using the Daoloth formula, and is known to take a small amount of blood from the summoner. If not held within some kind of magical containment, such as the Pentacle of Planes, he continues to expand and expand — perhaps even at an infinite rate.
One request that can be made to Daoloth, magically contained, is to view things as they really are, not as our veiled senses perceive them. The sight is usually more than one can bear. “
Hhhhhello. I'm a fictive of both the Lamb and the Goat from cult of the lamb, coul i. get some names ? if you could, maybe some with an ancient god type of feel? if not, thats cool too
ROTTING CHRIST “Passage to Arcturo” MLP 1991 (A milestone of ancient Hellenic Black Metal Cult ! The Old Coffin Spirit still lives on...)
1. Intro - Ach Golgotha (The Small One on the Cross)
2. The Old Coffin Spirit
3. The Forest of N'Gai
4. The Mystical Meeting (Sevlesmeth Esoth Spleh Dog)
5. Gloria de Domino Inferni
6. Inside the Eye of Algond
“Circle within circle
The sacred hours come
They passed to obscure deeds
The final step before the meeting
What I wish appears in my sleep
Surpass the whole mortal life
As succubus creeps in my cold room
Trespass the invisible zone
Archeogonic theory is fallen by reborn
Those who believed the one
Follow the light now
Marking the way to mystical meeting”
Daoloth had returned. But the Department had trained Miriam for this moment. With trembling hand she reached for the final emergency binder: How to Summon an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee.