They were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. The Great Old Ones, according to Castro, had come from the stars to rule the world in ages past. One cultist, known as Old Castro, provides the most elaborate information given in Lovecraft's fiction about Cthulhu. The cult is noted for chanting the phrase "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." This is often shortened to "Cthulhu fhtagn", which might possibly mean "Cthulhu waits", "Cthulhu dreams", or "Cthulhu waits dreaming."
Cthulhu is described by some of these cultists as the "great priest" of "the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky." There are leaders of the cult "in the mountains of China" who are said to be immortal. The phrase "a mountain walked or stumbled" gives a sense of the creature's scale.Ĭthulhu is depicted as having a worldwide doomsday cult centered in Arabia, with followers in regions as far-flung as Greenland and Louisiana. When the creature finally appears, the story says that the "thing cannot be described", but it is called "the green, sticky spawn of the stars", with "flabby claws" and an "awful squid-head with writhing feelers". A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings." Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, "represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."
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One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have "yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature. The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu appear in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", and are based on the statues of the creature.
While the origin of Cthulhu is not definitively established, it is suggested that it is the planet Vhoorl, with his advent somehow connected with supernovae: "I learned whence Cthulhu first came, and why half the great temporary stars of history had flared forth." It is also suggested in both At the Mountains of Madness and “The Whisperer in Darkness” that Cthulhu is made up of some unknown and foreign matter. August Derleth, a correspondent of Lovecraft's, used the creature's name to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors, the Cthulhu Mythos. Cthulhu is often referred to in science fiction and fantasy circles as a tongue-in-cheek shorthand for extreme horror or evil.Īfter its first appearance in "The Call of Cthulhu", Cthulhu makes a few minor appearances in other Lovecraft stories. It is often cited for the extreme descriptions given of its hideous appearance, its gargantuan size, and the abject terror that it evokes. The first appearance of the entity was in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu" published in Weird Tales in 1928.Ĭthulhu is one of the central Great Old Ones of the Lovecraft Mythos. Lovecraft.Ĭthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by horror author H. The name "Ktulu" is originally written "Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft's main stories featuring Cthulhu, The Call of Cthulhu, which was written in 1928 for the magazine Weird Tales. The song's name was taken from one of H.P. Lovecraft's book The Shadow over Innsmouth which was first introduced to the rest of the band by Cliff Burton. The idea of the song "The Call of Ktulu" is based upon H.P. The song working title was originally "When Hell Freezes Over".
"The Call of Ktulu" was Metallica's second instrumental song, following the first instrumental "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth" from Kill 'Em All.
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