@@sudanemamimikiki1527 the Thing is: exactly this makes cthulhu immensly important. The whole Point of the weird/cosmic Horror of HPL is perspective. Humanity is rather impotent and ignorant when facing the eldritch races and Great Old Ones, Not even to mention the Outer Gods. Making Cthulhu the destined Destroyer of Humanity gives him a huge narratological importance because we read the Mythos through human eyes. He may be a third row entity through universe intrinsic perspective, but you don't read Stories in such anway Outside of academic endeavour in the broader Sense.
“Damn you stormcloaks, empire was nice and lazy before you came along. If it weren’t for you, I would’ve stolen that horse and be halfway to hammerfell.”
@KingKilla so is the bible and yet, without fail, i get some nut job trying to convert me or tell me because i'm a non believed i will suffer or some such. cosmic horror is better, at least it doesn't sugar coat shit nor does it endorse and protects pedos
I forgot about that. When I learned what the cat's name was, laughed. When I learned that Lovecraft uncle named it, I laughed harder. Dick move on the uncle's part
Lol! You threw Conan The Barbarian in there. Lovecraft was supposedly purposely vague, to leave plenty of room to pass the torch to other creators to expand the lore later on. He also wasn't above doing collaborations with other creators of his time. Lovecraft's universe is thus also the same one the various Conan The Barbarian franchises take place in. As he and Robert Howard were friends. Most people who read Conan never make this connection, and fewer still know. Despite that it's entirely the reason Conan often fights snake people and cults that worship them. Conan directly took part in the human war for supremacy over the snake men. It's the same in all the various comic books, especially the Marvel Comics run. Conan's story takes place in the Hyborian Age, prior to the great flood. So there, I laid out that delightful web of continuity.
@@charlesco7413 I don't think a lot of the Crimmean god are real, at least not in Lovecraft. Set explicitly causes disasters, but Crom never does anything. I kind of look at "The Doom that came to Sarnath" as a good example. The people of Sarnath had 3 human looking Gods that their priests venerated, but they were completely absent when Bokrug the Great Old One destroyed their city.
Robert E. Howard (the author and inventor of Conan the Barbarian) was also a writer of Lovecraft's Circle of Writers. He wrote about some Old Gods and other Lovecraftian Horrors before writing Conan the Barbarian. Conan, at its core, it's pretty much a Lovecraftian adventure book. The books started taking place after the fall of Atlantis and in the Hyborian age. Robert Howard took a lot of elements from Lovecrafts Circle when writings Conan the Barbarian.
And then he became canon to marvel when they bought the rights to conan and then they have ties to Shuma Gorath, part of the many angled ones who also bear a striking resemblance to Lovecraft entities. Lovecraftian influence stretches far and wide in the circles of sci-fi, horror and comic books and almost everyone uses his influence in some fashion. If only he had known how much of an impact he had made in the world today.
Not OFFICIALLY, but yes, he regularly fights or deals with shit "TOTTALY NOT AT ALL, DUE TO COPYRIGHT REASSONS 100% DISTINCT I SWEAR IT" from Lovecraft's works.
I have come to find most modern creative elements have some taint of Lovecraft on them. For great Cthulhu is especially felt by those who are artistic or sensitive lol.
@@mikeypeinado383 As an Englishman I shouldn't get what 5150 is .... but am right there with ya buddy :D The grief I give my dad and his mrs .... that have crocs that MATCH ... I sometimes hear the Mortal Kombat tagline . . . F I N I S H. H IM
Did they really take this script because it was so different then the videogame series? That's odd how the later games took stuff like the laser grid and made it game design staple.
I don't think the lovecraft universe solely exists in Azathoths dreams, however I do think his dreams brought the universe into existence. I think that the universe can exist independently of Azathoth, but when/if he wakes up, it will cause another big bang, which will destroy the old universe. When/if Azathoth goes to sleep again, it will make another universe.
The chance another universe comes into existence is never hinted at through the mythos, Azathoth created the multiverse/omniverse the H.P. Lovecraft stories are told in. I would assume if he woke up we would just blink out of existence in an instant.
@@xXLunatikxXlul so, if Azathoth did wake up, yes the multiverse would just poof out of existence. However he will eventually go back to sleep, and then the multiverse will poof back into existence and humanity would be none the wiser. I'm following the logic that since Azathoth is immortal, he will eventually do everything, including go back to sleep.
I never really thought that a timeline could be made for the Cthulhu mythos, though h.p. lovecraft is my favorite author of horror, I must say he wasn't all that consistent with a timeline of events. Now sure he had references and nods to previous works like writing about Miskatonic University and of Arkham. But when it came to a continuous timeline that's where lovecraft was lacking.
He wasn’t lacking, he DELIBERATELY avoided consistency in his descriptions of creatures and events to mirror the chaotic nature of humans trying to understand the nature of the unknowable through passed down anecdotes and obscure tomes written by madmen. He wanted an ANTI-Mythology, opposite to the clearly delineated relationships described in greek, roman and norse mythology.
@@TheGladGolem his mythology mirrors perfecly those that you mentioned though. There has never been such thing as a cannon in real mythos, and common men were never as rational as we all believe-and aspire- to be after the Illustration. Just tell me, who's the head of the germanic pantheon? Is it Tyw, Donar or Woden? Where did the greeks believe the world came from? Was it from Chaos or from the world egg? Mythos change through space and time as cultures develop
@@rikospostmodernlife I would not say that it mirrors them perfectly. While certainly there are discrepancies and contradictions in real world mythologies, Lovecraft went a bit further with these inconsistencies. I believe he wanted to underline the human race’s tenuous grasp of the overarching relationships between the mythos beings. Especially when their nature is toxic to the human psyche.
So h.p. lovecraft left the legacy the world he created for future generations of great minds to add their own ideas and expand the world he himself dreamed up
@@dustydurant2746 What? What do you mean by "stay like what are you talking about". Ngl that sentence doesn't make any sense, care to explain? Also if you have no idea, you can just simply look it up instead of stating that you don't know what I mean by replying.
There are few Conan stories in the black and white agazine adventures where he's fighting against Lovecraftian creatures in all but name and he's also fought shoggoths and in one of the later Savage Sword issues they do a homage/truncated adaptation of "At the mountains of Madness"
It's the same in comic books, especially the Marvel Comics run. Conan's story takes place in the Hyborian Age, prior to the great flood. The only other character to come from there is Selene. The first human mutant.
Robert e Howard's stuff is legendary you should look up Solomon Kane. Bran Muck Morn, worms of the Earth. Epic heroes hero that don't get as much hype.
This feels like a combination of H.P Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard timelines. I like it. Not surprised seeing as how both were extremely good friends.
@@genkureshima9834 read an Alan Moore interview on this where he said that this is a misconcepction about the guy. He was very social acctually, but not in a bohemian way. He loves to take people to sight seeing and to long walks in nature. And there's the huge amount of letters he exchange with other authors, both as fan and as an inspiration.
Well that explains why entities like the angels in the Old Testament of the Bible are, literally, Lovecraftian ._. Makes so much more sense why the phrase "do not fear" is all over the place
@@purepoverty8363 we cant obviously comprehend god fully yk like our brains would explode if we would try to understand god and like lovecraftian gods to 100% god obviously is way beyond everything and way beyond our imaginations same goes for the lovecraft gods one time i tried to fully understand god but i regreted it after i gave up and its good that i stopped or i would have gone insane
Usefulness: zero. Knowing how tidy yet volatile everything in cosmic horror, there might be someone willing to wake Azatoth up, and who knows how powerful that someone is.
Th is pronounced as a sharp t in some languages. And since its canon that there is no right way to pronounce most pf these names it doesn't really matter how you do it
A late answer; they've been long time corresponding about their world "point of view" imaginary or about society. (Lovecraft was nuts about it even hardcore fan agree on that)
Thanks for uploading this comprehensive timeline breakdown. I occasionally write Lovecraftian fiction for fun and this will really help with future projects.
450M years ago, first fish...100M years ago, first life forms on earth...65M years ago, dinosaurs are extinct...Something's fishy here, no pun intended
Lovecraft said multiple times that he does NOT want to make a universe out of his books/ideas (like the marvel universe for example). His open scource approach was because he loved discourse and exchanging ideas.
But these beings are more symbolic or undescribable. In Call of Cthulhu is he describet as some man made statue or a story from some old letter where isn't even sure if that thing is Cthulhu.
Clearly a year late to this, but I have quick question. Was it ever established in the books/lore as to why all these aliens were attracted to earth? Lovecraft wrote most of his Cthulhu works after Hubble discovered that there were effectively infinite galaxies in 1924, so why did all these elder gods choose earth or are they everywhere?
I always figured it had something to do with some sort of cosmic alignment. It could also simply be that once a first few being established themselves there it drew the attention of others. Which in turn drew the attention of even more.
Maybe just maybe Nyarlathotep is responsible for getting so much attention towards Earth after whenever he arrived, given how he's constantly seen and interpreted as some kind of gatekeeper but not one that wants it closed. On the contrary, he wants to open it up for Cthulhu and whoever the fuck else is asleep or waiting nearby (by nearby I mean in outerspace).
@@genkureshima9834 I won't lie to you, I don't remember posting this question, but after reading it I was like "oh yeah, I can see why I asked this" so thank you for the reply!
Very well researched, clearly and professionally presented, with clear and useful visuals. I used to hire professional educators for fortune 500 companies. You would have been called back for a second interview. My compliments.
I’m so deep down the Game of Thrones mythical rabbit hole right now, I’ve come to the Chutulu mythos to gain insight into the secrets of A Song of Ice and Fire. For all those who don’t know, most of the gods in Westeros are actually eldritch horrors from this mythos. Carcossa is a city in the far east, the church of starry wisdom is a thing here, and Rhollor the lord of light is probably a sleeping old one, trapped just north of Asshai.
Don't go that way with "it all makes sense now", bro. H. P. wanted to show how insignificant we are as beings in face of the greater universe out there, nothing else. (Many say that his imprinted racism took part in the creation of the Mythos, but whatever)
I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THIS YET, but let me just say.... Brilliant idea. I've never even considered what a Cthulhu mythos timeline might look like. So, without even having watched a single second of this video, I am subscribing and liking. Brilliant ideas are self-evident.
The two things I’d like to point out that for a mythos timeline that spans the whole universe and multiple-dimensions and thus possible other universes this is an Earth centric timeline. The mythos does include data on multiple star systems and their planets. The other thing is rather a question: where did you get your source for putting Yig as the progenitor of the Yithian species? I would genuinely very much like to know. I am myself trying to compile a timeline and database of mythos information, and this is key information since the Yithians are an important mythos species. I find no such information either under Yig or the Yithians online. Otherwise thank you for your video, it is a good resource and useful to have in the public domain. The mythos is of course being continually worked upon by contemporary writers, and so perhaps this Yig - Yithian connection is a creation of your own? Which is by no means not uninteresting or without merit. On leaving I would like to high-light perhaps the most important present creative contributor to the mythos, in my humble opinion, and that is Alan Moore. His comic book works “The Courtyard”, “Neonomicon” and “Providence” have both heightened and revolutionised the mythos, with superb art by Jason Burrows. I think in time his contributions will be seen to have added a stroke of genius to the mythos, providing new and rich seams from which to dig into. Anyway thank you for your video.
I always liked to play around d and d with the mythos. One time I created a campaign that entangled them in a world of madness and destruction only to reveal that they were lead by the dreams of cthulhu. As they tried to break away from their shackles of fate they begin searching through ancient cult like areas to fund anything on how to kill him. They find that he lays on the bottom of the ocean but it also reveals that he created everything including the human race to endure and fall prey to chaos and insanity.
Correction, Azathoth does not created the universe thru his dreams, in fact in 100 books made by HPLC himself never mentioned a single thing about universe created by Azathoth while he is asleep. Its a big misconception regarding Azathoth on his deep slumber vs Mana-Yood-Sushai. You can check Mana-Yood-Shushai regarding this.
There is a big misconception here. Azathoth is never said to be dreaming our reality into existence by H.P Lovecraft. He is said to only be dreaming of things he cannot comprehend. This misconception comes from an anime called Demonbane which has its own Azathoth that actually is dreaming the Demonbane universe into existence. It’s not that big of a deal but if you could correct that in the video it would be awesome.
No, he certainly is. You are assuming that a infinite dimensional being that makes all universes, aka, the multiverse,and is capable of recollecting the multiverse into a Omniverse and create infinite more universes, is not capable of collecting its own fragments. Think of each separate instance of Azathoth as it's own set of memories, what happens when Black Holes collide.
@@justinlast1795 no he is not. Tell me where in HP Lovecraft’s books is it said that he dreamt our universe up and that when he wakes up it will suddenly vanish.
Azathoth: So, there i was, watching this... Weird creatures... Cosmic Theraphist: and what would that be? Azathoth: This creatures called.... Humans... Its very weird, they like, have beliefs and believe they're the most important beings in existence *both chuckles*
@Cavalo Nilista do Diabo actually Conan is on a team of avengers called the Savage Avengers. They have also fought some of the old gods. So yeah they are
VERY good work!!! I have never made anything for UA-cam, but I imagine the research let alone the graphics was very time consuming. THANK YOU for doing this.
Guys, I've been looking for some lovecraftian authors, since I've heard there are, or were, quite a number of them around. By lovecraftian I mean books taking place in the same narrative universe, not simply inspiring from HP like Barker. Any suggestions? I would really appreciate any
I highly recommend the comics by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows: The Courtyard, Neonomicon and Providence. They revolutionise the mythos, culminating in works of genius.
Nice one. Enjoy. See if you can read The Courtyard as they are all connected. It has an AKLO ur-language sequence that is amazing. Otherwise Providence sheds a new perspective on the whole Mythos, Inc it's purpose and even HPL's life.
Fun fact: Lovecraft was trolling when he was spelling Cthulhu. He never meant for the T to be pronounced. So you actually say: Clhulhu, substituting the T with an L.
It's quite the coincidence, though, that Cthulhu should rightly be pronounced as "Kutulu", and that "KUTU.LU" in Sumerian would translate as: "the Underworld Man".
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Cthulhu and all these elder gods seem more historical than the bible itself. This timeline seems so logical I'm beginning to think Lovecraft was not so out there after all
ryleh cannot sink beneath the waves in 300m bc, because in call of cthulhu it says that although cthulhu was imprisoned, ryleh was still above land when the first humans appeared and sunk afterwards - aha!
I’m new to this but just to spread the word there’s a few Lovecraft inspired shows on the BBC i-player app, The Lovecraft Investigations weaves together two (I think) books & The Tomb is an half-hour short story. Gateway Lovecraft I think is the best description.
Azathoth reminds me of Yaldobaoth, the Gnostic Demiurge, while the Yekubians look to me like the Gnostic Archons. Seems Lovecraft took inspiration for Gnostic literature.
Can you imagine how terrifying these creatures are? Humans as we call themselves started to truly form around 2 million years. Elder things traveled to earth with tech BILLIONS of years ago. Not to mention actually god like crearures of the mythos. I am not even include outer gods Shub Niggurah Nyarlathotep Yogsathoth etc. It s such a truly paralizing to think about.
Yep, you've nailed the definition of cosmic horror. The idea that we are so small and powerless compared to these incomprehensible beings and events is one of the scariest ideas, if not the scariest in all of fiction if you ask me.
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Azathoth: Man i haved this weird dream where this race called humans made an anime of my son nyarlethotep. What a dream.
lol
Wait, that’s an actual anime?
@@TrelarysVT Yea
@@TrelarysVT its haiyore nyaruko san if im not wrong
@@dinosaurwithpoorinternet4717 whats it called also if you watch the overlord anime they have shubniggroth in that really awesome
Nice to see that Cthulhu showed up a whole of 2 times in his own mythos.
Lovecraft called it the yog-sothoth cycle not the Cthulhu mythos.
@@skooptywooop1030 pretty sure he’s referring to the name of the video and the background image that says “Cthulhu mythos” multiple times.
It’s only called the Cthulhu Mythos because he was the publishers favorite eldritch god
@@100EPICMAN he literally said mythos
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 the Thing is: exactly this makes cthulhu immensly important. The whole Point of the weird/cosmic Horror of HPL is perspective. Humanity is rather impotent and ignorant when facing the eldritch races and Great Old Ones, Not even to mention the Outer Gods. Making Cthulhu the destined Destroyer of Humanity gives him a huge narratological importance because we read the Mythos through human eyes. He may be a third row entity through universe intrinsic perspective, but you don't read Stories in such anway Outside of academic endeavour in the broader Sense.
Azathot awakens:
"Ahh, you're finally awake. Tried to cross the border, right? Like that thief over there"
“Damn you stormcloaks, empire was nice and lazy before you came along. If it weren’t for you, I would’ve stolen that horse and be halfway to hammerfell.”
"Wake the fuck up, samurai"
@JurClark34 “we’re all brothers and sisters in binds now thief.”
@@redrumgmv161 "We got a city to burn"
(Rock n roll intensifies) "YEAH I CALL THAT CHIPPING IN!" Title screen: Cyberpunk 2077
So in conclusion, azathoth took a long nap.
Need not have slept for "long". Time in dream can run asynchronous to "real time".
So basically Azathoth is just me on a weekend?
Does his long nap involved with the Dream witch?Yidhra?
he was probably at college...
Even better, people love it if he took a long nap.... What a heaven....
Feeling cute. Might summon some old gods later. Idk.
Yesssssss
Just don't make too much noise doing it. We would not want daddy Azathoth to wake up, would we?
Stolen comment.
@@catchylow3444 which?
@@catchylow3444 who cares? Why do you care if it’s “stolen” or not?
Earth: exist
Cosmic embodiments of incomprehensible horrors: it's free real estate
They are attracted to our planet. Maybe this is proof that our planet is indeed the center of the universe.
Maybe the aliens will need a place and that's as far as earth's importance goes?
I'm dieing
@@r-thur5847 No, Azathoth himself sits at the center of the universe
I was the 666th like on this post... that was weirdly satisfying
Damn this aliens sure love planet earth.
Maybe those are just the ones that came to earth, and maybe other systems have similar stories and we are just looking at it from earths perspective.
Yeah, I must say this timeline is a bit hard to understand without first having an introduction to every alien race involved.
Ironically if the earth was ever colonized before the span of time alone would make it hard to know.
Only a few are aliens. Many evolved here.
Nah not this one this shit happens everywhere
Cthulu: octopus boi
Chaugnar Faugn: creepy elephant with mushroom nose
Chaugnar reminds me of the Hindu God Ganesh.
Cthulhu aint Octopus thats a false form (avatar) of him .
C*ck nose
@@Medgator whats his real/true form?
@@ThirdEye-47 darkness , lituraly its pitch black .
Azathot: Man that sleep was crazy. Totally bonkers. Hey what's that?
*And the universe ceased to exist*
Milky Way: NOOOOOOOOO
And then he went back to sleep and made a new one.
_A Z A T H O T_
@@deanholderde5959 nah dream will continue that way im seeing the flash the turned everything black
Azathot lol
The mi-go are still around. Apparently they Rap now.
😂
Underrated comment
heya amigoes
I might get the joke but I'm not sure
Fuck, this got me!
Azathoth finally awakens and just says 5 more mintues and takes another small slumber before going to his office job
You, you finally Awake
That's the plan
@@azathoththeprimalchaos2289
Nice.
Azathot is like a grandpa he wakes up makes two steps and says Five min Nap but ends up sleeping for another quadrillion years XD
Id like to think modern history is the 5 min nap
Wait... how am I just hearing about this now? This wasn’t taught in my school wth
Nyarlathotep
F' need l' quit shuggoth washing mgepyar nnnkadishtuorr
Yov’ucton - say what you want, but she’s your mother, too...
Yo Nyarlathotep they made an anime on you
@KingKilla so is the bible and yet, without fail, i get some nut job trying to convert me or tell me because i'm a non believed i will suffer or some such.
cosmic horror is better, at least it doesn't sugar coat shit nor does it endorse and protects pedos
@KingKilla ah my mistake, i completely misread your comment and tone>.
but also, CHILL IS FOR COWARDS ! *flips table*
It's truly magnificent how the whole universe of Conan the Barbarian is actually part of the Cthulhu universe
*azathoth's dream
That’s due to the fact that both Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard both worked at Weird Tales magazine
@@cainthedeity The universe is not his dream. That's just a baseless theory made up by fans, and not canon.
@@NorthernNorthdude91749wrong!!!!!!!
@@Dragon.um5tz No, I'm right. Sorry, but you're gonna sit down and be quiet.
Like the man said... "There were more than a dozen, EXTINCTION-LEVEL events before even the dinosaurs got theirs..."
So our extinction will involved crazy confusion and paranoia before we all die. Now that's something.
Was that Ultron?
@@shadowsaiyan9246 yes
You forgot the great one who’s name held the most power. HP lovecraft’s cat.
But what about his... hamster
"the forbidden one"
I forgot about that. When I learned what the cat's name was, laughed. When I learned that Lovecraft uncle named it, I laughed harder. Dick move on the uncle's part
@@whatwhat98 what is it actually tho
@@aaaaa-n8l it's the N word.
@@whatwhat98 hard R?
Lol! You threw Conan The Barbarian in there.
Lovecraft was supposedly purposely vague, to leave plenty of room to pass the torch to other creators to expand the lore later on.
He also wasn't above doing collaborations with other creators of his time. Lovecraft's universe is thus also the same one the various Conan The Barbarian franchises take place in. As he and Robert Howard were friends.
Most people who read Conan never make this connection, and fewer still know. Despite that it's entirely the reason Conan often fights snake people and cults that worship them.
Conan directly took part in the human war for supremacy over the snake men. It's the same in all the various comic books, especially the Marvel Comics run. Conan's story takes place in the Hyborian Age, prior to the great flood.
So there, I laid out that delightful web of continuity.
There is also god named simply "Yog", being worshipped in Conan lore. Kinda giveaway
He didnt mention Crom?
Don't forget Red Sonja too. She lived in the Conan Era too.
@Janix Could Thul in THULsa be the same as thul in [C'thul'hu?] I think thul=ZUul from Ghost busters.
@@charlesco7413 I don't think a lot of the Crimmean god are real, at least not in Lovecraft. Set explicitly causes disasters, but Crom never does anything. I kind of look at "The Doom that came to Sarnath" as a good example. The people of Sarnath had 3 human looking Gods that their priests venerated, but they were completely absent when Bokrug the Great Old One destroyed their city.
I never knew the serpent people battled by conan has a connection with the Old Ones.
that blew my mind
Robert E. Howard (the author and inventor of Conan the Barbarian) was also a writer of Lovecraft's Circle of Writers. He wrote about some Old Gods and other Lovecraftian Horrors before writing Conan the Barbarian. Conan, at its core, it's pretty much a Lovecraftian adventure book. The books started taking place after the fall of Atlantis and in the Hyborian age.
Robert Howard took a lot of elements from Lovecrafts Circle when writings Conan the Barbarian.
Kull was before Conan on Atlantis. The main antagonists were shapeshifting serpent men. Interesting tidbit, Conan is a distant relative of Kull's.
And then he became canon to marvel when they bought the rights to conan and then they have ties to Shuma Gorath, part of the many angled ones who also bear a striking resemblance to Lovecraft entities. Lovecraftian influence stretches far and wide in the circles of sci-fi, horror and comic books and almost everyone uses his influence in some fashion. If only he had known how much of an impact he had made in the world today.
Not OFFICIALLY, but yes, he regularly fights or deals with shit "TOTTALY NOT AT ALL, DUE TO COPYRIGHT REASSONS 100% DISTINCT I SWEAR IT" from Lovecraft's works.
Lovecraft was The Boss Way before marvel was a thing
Brandon Sanderson: hold my atium
1Estel1 ch.
Who?
@@1estel1ch.42 who...
I have come to find most modern creative elements have some taint of Lovecraft on them. For great Cthulhu is especially felt by those who are artistic or sensitive lol.
just don't search his cats name
Amazing to think that in a single moment on an infinite timeline, amongst the backdrop of strange gods and such vast powers, someone invented crocs.
You had me in first half not gonna lie
@@Bleepbleepblorbus 🤣
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@@mikeypeinado383 As an Englishman I shouldn't get what 5150 is .... but am right there with ya buddy :D
The grief I give my dad and his mrs .... that have crocs that MATCH ...
I sometimes hear the Mortal Kombat tagline . . .
F I N I S H. H IM
Did they really take this script because it was so different then the videogame series? That's odd how the later games took stuff like the laser grid and made it game design staple.
I don't think the lovecraft universe solely exists in Azathoths dreams, however I do think his dreams brought the universe into existence. I think that the universe can exist independently of Azathoth, but when/if he wakes up, it will cause another big bang, which will destroy the old universe. When/if Azathoth goes to sleep again, it will make another universe.
chances are it might also just dream back the old universe and we would be none the wiser.
@@pillarmenn1936 good point.
The chance another universe comes into existence is never hinted at through the mythos, Azathoth created the multiverse/omniverse the H.P. Lovecraft stories are told in. I would assume if he woke up we would just blink out of existence in an instant.
@@xXLunatikxXlul I'm saying it's a likely possiblity. If it dreamed the multiverse into existence, then it can do it again.
@@xXLunatikxXlul so, if Azathoth did wake up, yes the multiverse would just poof out of existence. However he will eventually go back to sleep, and then the multiverse will poof back into existence and humanity would be none the wiser. I'm following the logic that since Azathoth is immortal, he will eventually do everything, including go back to sleep.
I never really thought that a timeline could be made for the Cthulhu mythos, though h.p. lovecraft is my favorite author of horror, I must say he wasn't all that consistent with a timeline of events. Now sure he had references and nods to previous works like writing about Miskatonic University and of Arkham. But when it came to a continuous timeline that's where lovecraft was lacking.
He wasn’t lacking, he DELIBERATELY avoided consistency in his descriptions of creatures and events to mirror the chaotic nature of humans trying to understand the nature of the unknowable through passed down anecdotes and obscure tomes written by madmen. He wanted an ANTI-Mythology, opposite to the clearly delineated relationships described in greek, roman and norse mythology.
Other authors filled the gaps, those are part of the official mythos although it's not original Lovecraft work.
Thanks for opening my eyes to that you two, that's actually helps me understand how lovecraft wrote his tales.
@@TheGladGolem his mythology mirrors perfecly those that you mentioned though. There has never been such thing as a cannon in real mythos, and common men were never as rational as we all believe-and aspire- to be after the Illustration. Just tell me, who's the head of the germanic pantheon? Is it Tyw, Donar or Woden? Where did the greeks believe the world came from? Was it from Chaos or from the world egg? Mythos change through space and time as cultures develop
@@rikospostmodernlife I would not say that it mirrors them perfectly. While certainly there are discrepancies and contradictions in real world mythologies, Lovecraft went a bit further with these inconsistencies. I believe he wanted to underline the human race’s tenuous grasp of the overarching relationships between the mythos beings. Especially when their nature is toxic to the human psyche.
So h.p. lovecraft left the legacy the world he created for future generations of great minds to add their own ideas and expand the world he himself dreamed up
Don't forget that he left us with a cat to meme too.
@@Nonexistility i have no idea what you are talking about
@@dustydurant2746 Stay like that buddy, that is the best.
@@Nonexistility stay like what are you talking about because I still have no idea what you are talking about
@@dustydurant2746 What? What do you mean by "stay like what are you talking about". Ngl that sentence doesn't make any sense, care to explain? Also if you have no idea, you can just simply look it up instead of stating that you don't know what I mean by replying.
So Conan took part in the Lovecraft-verse. Sick
Both authors were apparently great friends
There are few Conan stories in the black and white agazine adventures where he's fighting against Lovecraftian creatures in all but name and he's also fought shoggoths and in one of the later Savage Sword issues they do a homage/truncated adaptation of "At the mountains of Madness"
It's the same in comic books, especially the Marvel Comics run. Conan's story takes place in the Hyborian Age, prior to the great flood. The only other character to come from there is Selene. The first human mutant.
Robert e Howard's stuff is legendary you should look up Solomon Kane. Bran Muck Morn, worms of the Earth. Epic heroes hero that don't get as much hype.
The Elephants Tower is clearly a wink at Cthulhu’s.
This feels like a combination of H.P Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard timelines. I like it. Not surprised seeing as how both were extremely good friends.
They share timeline, as well as the King in Yellow
Hol' up... H. P. had friends?
@@genkureshima9834 and they killed themselves (google it)
@@genkureshima9834 read an Alan Moore interview on this where he said that this is a misconcepction about the guy. He was very social acctually, but not in a bohemian way. He loves to take people to sight seeing and to long walks in nature. And there's the huge amount of letters he exchange with other authors, both as fan and as an inspiration.
As someone running a Call of Cthulhu campaign, this was super helpful in sorting things out.
We could make a religion out of this.
I can see you are a man of culture aswell.
They’ve already done that
Dagon
No don’t
It already is, technically, it could be considered mine...CHAOS MAGICK
I came for squid god and left knowing my people will become spiders... enough internet for tonight lol
LMAO right
"When we all fall asleep where do we go?"
We go to the nothing , the void , the outterverse .
When we go to sleep we dream of azathoth.
@@Medgator I'm pretty sure we stay in our beds actually..
Azathoth
@@thelurker3795 you're such a doomer
There should be a cuthulu spinoff for Pokemon Go; however, when you finally "catch them all" you succumb to madness!
This is gold
Well that explains why entities like the angels in the Old Testament of the Bible are, literally, Lovecraftian ._. Makes so much more sense why the phrase "do not fear" is all over the place
@@purepoverty8363 we cant obviously comprehend god fully yk like our brains would explode if we would try to understand god and like lovecraftian gods to 100% god obviously is way beyond everything and way beyond our imaginations same goes for the lovecraft gods one time i tried to fully understand god but i regreted it after i gave up and its good that i stopped or i would have gone insane
My speculation the Abrahamic God is Azathoth after gaining Omnibenevolence
@@purepoverty8363 maybe but His is truly omnipotence he will easily overpower other gods of different pantheon
@@purepoverty8363 no
Im too ignorany
Sorry
😅
Have you ever seen a picture of an angel? Not the winged people we depict today. But as they were described in the bible
Theory: the Golden Throne wasn't made to keep the daemons away. It was built to keep Azathoth asleep
Usefulness: zero. Knowing how tidy yet volatile everything in cosmic horror, there might be someone willing to wake Azatoth up, and who knows how powerful that someone is.
He was a cool writer. He left everything open. Like those open-source developers.
When did the call of Cthulhu universe cross with Conan The Barbarian?
Lovecraft was friends with Robert e Howard and encouraged him to draw parallels from his universe into the Conan universe.
@@oka3107 wow, that actually explains A LOT
@@Nightshift10000 lmao yeah
Shared Universes are great.
Referencing other universes is TIGHT.
H.P Lovecraft himself was just another incarnation of Nyarlathotep. Think about it...
Always have been
"Azathot".
Ymg' ahlloigazath gnaiih ot nilgh'ri ymg' mgr'luh, feel, ng ah'bthnk. If Y' mgep entirety ot ya orr'eog. C' would correct ymg' ng ymg' meek kind
@@TrelarysVT English damn it.
Th is pronounced as a sharp t in some languages. And since its canon that there is no right way to pronounce most pf these names it doesn't really matter how you do it
@@TrelarysVT Where do I learn your language? :0
@@mint5438 In xi nix thog in the outer edge of the solar system.
Wait ... Cthulhu and Conan are the same universe?
Yeah apparently
Always have been.
A late answer; they've been long time corresponding about their world "point of view" imaginary or about society. (Lovecraft was nuts about it even hardcore fan agree on that)
Video: in the 0-2020 modern history
Me: ahhh the videos is ended, really cool and good make video
Video: in the 2350...
Me **gasp**
Thanks for uploading this comprehensive timeline breakdown. I occasionally write Lovecraftian fiction for fun and this will really help with future projects.
"5 million years ag-"
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* Humans exist *
Eldritch horrors: and I took that personally
450M years ago, first fish...100M years ago, first life forms on earth...65M years ago, dinosaurs are extinct...Something's fishy here, no pun intended
6:35
"The savage humanoid Boomers gained their freedom from the snake people"
gee, thanks captions
Boomers ?
I noticed that too!
😆😆😆😆😆😅 OMG I HATE YOU
Conan !!! I wasn't aware that he is a part of Cthulhu mythos even if H.P. Lovecraft and R.E. Howard was friends. :)
Lovecraft said multiple times that he does NOT want to make a universe out of his books/ideas (like the marvel universe for example). His open scource approach was because he loved discourse and exchanging ideas.
Man the universe must've been a very busy place with all these aliens making peace and war literally everywhere in a span of a few million years.
Ah yes. this is good 1pm knowledge. thank you youtube
But these beings are more symbolic or undescribable. In Call of Cthulhu is he describet as some man made statue or a story from some old letter where isn't even sure if that thing is Cthulhu.
Yet in call of cthulu they come to face to face with cthulu
@@michaelliggett1622 and most of them either died or went insane
@@dragoslavradanovic5998 guy went insane but he temporarily stopped cthulu keyword temporarily
Fun fact: Mi Go's home world is not yuggoth. In the story whisperer in the darkness, it is stated that yuggoth is just the closest outpost to earth.
I find it funny how most of the aliens got really cool titles, but there's one race that's just called *Elder Things*
HPL also called them crinoids (due to their appearance) when he wrote about the shining trapezohedron
I like how the modern era made the most sence even with Atlantis, pretty good research by lovecraft
After reading Atlantis in your comment, I'm now imagining Gawr Gura as an eldritch god...
I'm an idiot, thank you
Clearly a year late to this, but I have quick question. Was it ever established in the books/lore as to why all these aliens were attracted to earth? Lovecraft wrote most of his Cthulhu works after Hubble discovered that there were effectively infinite galaxies in 1924, so why did all these elder gods choose earth or are they everywhere?
I always figured it had something to do with some sort of cosmic alignment. It could also simply be that once a first few being established themselves there it drew the attention of others. Which in turn drew the attention of even more.
Maybe just maybe Nyarlathotep is responsible for getting so much attention towards Earth after whenever he arrived, given how he's constantly seen and interpreted as some kind of gatekeeper but not one that wants it closed. On the contrary, he wants to open it up for Cthulhu and whoever the fuck else is asleep or waiting nearby (by nearby I mean in outerspace).
@@genkureshima9834 I won't lie to you, I don't remember posting this question, but after reading it I was like "oh yeah, I can see why I asked this" so thank you for the reply!
Azathoth wakes up*
Azathoth:.....now what?
Very well researched, clearly and professionally presented, with clear and useful visuals. I used to hire professional educators for fortune 500 companies. You would have been called back for a second interview. My compliments.
I like how Cthulhu never wakes up from his slumber.
I’m so deep down the Game of Thrones mythical rabbit hole right now, I’ve come to the Chutulu mythos to gain insight into the secrets of A Song of Ice and Fire. For all those who don’t know, most of the gods in Westeros are actually eldritch horrors from this mythos. Carcossa is a city in the far east, the church of starry wisdom is a thing here, and Rhollor the lord of light is probably a sleeping old one, trapped just north of Asshai.
Well done researching all of this lore brother!
I love how they fit the mythos together with science and religion. It all makes sense now...
Don't go that way with "it all makes sense now", bro. H. P. wanted to show how insignificant we are as beings in face of the greater universe out there, nothing else.
(Many say that his imprinted racism took part in the creation of the Mythos, but whatever)
Azathot when he wakes up after the heatdeath of the universe: Man, it's freezing in here.
VIP seat for early birds
I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THIS YET, but let me just say.... Brilliant idea. I've never even considered what a Cthulhu mythos timeline might look like.
So, without even having watched a single second of this video, I am subscribing and liking.
Brilliant ideas are self-evident.
okay, so thats why squidward move to bikini bottom...
LMAO good reference
Underrated comment
Score!
The two things I’d like to point out that for a mythos timeline that spans the whole universe and multiple-dimensions and thus possible other universes this is an Earth centric timeline. The mythos does include data on multiple star systems and their planets.
The other thing is rather a question: where did you get your source for putting Yig as the progenitor of the Yithian species? I would genuinely very much like to know. I am myself trying to compile a timeline and database of mythos information, and this is key information since the Yithians are an important mythos species. I find no such information either under Yig or the Yithians online.
Otherwise thank you for your video, it is a good resource and useful to have in the public domain. The mythos is of course being continually worked upon by contemporary writers, and so perhaps this Yig - Yithian connection is a creation of your own? Which is by no means not uninteresting or without merit. On leaving I would like to high-light perhaps the most important present creative contributor to the mythos, in my humble opinion, and that is Alan Moore. His comic book works “The Courtyard”, “Neonomicon” and “Providence” have both heightened and revolutionised the mythos, with superb art by Jason Burrows. I think in time his contributions will be seen to have added a stroke of genius to the mythos, providing new and rich seams from which to dig into. Anyway thank you for your video.
*Sees that Fhtaggua's art is taken from tower of saviors*
Oh cool! that game really needs more recognition
I like how you used the idv avatar for Yidra
I always liked to play around d and d with the mythos. One time I created a campaign that entangled them in a world of madness and destruction only to reveal that they were lead by the dreams of cthulhu. As they tried to break away from their shackles of fate they begin searching through ancient cult like areas to fund anything on how to kill him. They find that he lays on the bottom of the ocean but it also reveals that he created everything including the human race to endure and fall prey to chaos and insanity.
Is that downloadable?
@@freddyflower5322 no but if you want I can run a discord type of campaign for you if you want add me it's 💥👑Damon👑💥#3768
Imagine if azathoth is just some average joe in whatever universe he went to sleep in and this is just one night between work days.
This has many inaccuracies starting with azathoth
He never “dreamed” the universe into existence, he’s actually always awake
YIDHRA AKA DREAM WITCH FROM HIT HORROR ASSYMETRICAL GAME IDENTITY V????
Correction, Azathoth does not created the universe thru his dreams, in fact in 100 books made by HPLC himself never mentioned a single thing about universe created by Azathoth while he is asleep. Its a big misconception regarding Azathoth on his deep slumber vs Mana-Yood-Sushai. You can check Mana-Yood-Shushai regarding this.
There is a big misconception here. Azathoth is never said to be dreaming our reality into existence by H.P Lovecraft.
He is said to only be dreaming of things he cannot comprehend.
This misconception comes from an anime called Demonbane which has its own Azathoth that actually is dreaming the Demonbane universe into existence.
It’s not that big of a deal but if you could correct that in the video it would be awesome.
No, he certainly is. You are assuming that a infinite dimensional being that makes all universes, aka, the multiverse,and is capable of recollecting the multiverse into a Omniverse and create infinite more universes, is not capable of collecting its own fragments. Think of each separate instance of Azathoth as it's own set of memories, what happens when Black Holes collide.
@@justinlast1795 no he is not.
Tell me where in HP Lovecraft’s books is it said that he dreamt our universe up and that when he wakes up it will suddenly vanish.
Damn you, Yith! Lovely encapsulation of a complex Mythos.
Earliest life form on Earth: 100 millions b.c.
bacterias living 3 billions years ago: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?
When Azazoth awakens :
- Hey you, you're finally awake !
you were trying to cross a border right
You missed so many things, the flaming vampires, The Darkness, Nyarlathotep
The great race is also a big one
He did mention he would brush over and miss some stuff.
Besides this is lovecraft. Fact he managed to make a coherent timeline at all is impressive.
He mentions flaming vampires.
1:28 NO WAY!!! Yidhra from the hit game Identity V
Man I love the Call of Cthulhu game so much, its SO GOOD.
Azathoth: So, there i was, watching this... Weird creatures...
Cosmic Theraphist: and what would that be?
Azathoth: This creatures called.... Humans... Its very weird, they like, have beliefs and believe they're the most important beings in existence
*both chuckles*
Whats the difference between great Old Ones and Elder things ?
elder things are a mortal, purely material alien race. Great old ones a demigods.
1:32 yeah we know it’s multidimensional and alien to this dimension completely.
if they Marvelize the Cthulhu mythos, it will definitely lost all interest .
Isn't it already in marvel?
@Cavalo Nilista do Diabo actually Conan is on a team of avengers called the Savage Avengers. They have also fought some of the old gods. So yeah they are
@@ludiesexton7979 including the magical cat mentioned in hp lovecraft's "the rats in the walls"?
Lol your cringe for saying
@@bullrun2772 how
Thank god idv existed 4 billion years ago, thank you yidhra for being the first idv character ever
praise be the beautiful, awesome, terrible, earth mother
I love you for taking Identity V version of Yidhra in this video
I almost lost my shit when he used that LMAO
VERY good work!!! I have never made anything for UA-cam, but I imagine the research let alone the graphics was very time consuming. THANK YOU for doing this.
This is all in the tabletop roleplaying game Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green. He basically just reads the timeline from these books.
Guys, I've been looking for some lovecraftian authors, since I've heard there are, or were, quite a number of them around. By lovecraftian I mean books taking place in the same narrative universe, not simply inspiring from HP like Barker.
Any suggestions? I would really appreciate any
I highly recommend the comics by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows: The Courtyard, Neonomicon and Providence. They revolutionise the mythos, culminating in works of genius.
@@egoDEATH33 wait... THAT Moore? As in, the comic artist, the One of "V for Vendetta"?
Yh he's done quite a few Lovecraftian stuff. Yh I mean the top dog himself, Watchmen writer etc.
@@egoDEATH33 wow... Sure going to check him out. Cheers!
Nice one. Enjoy. See if you can read The Courtyard as they are all connected. It has an AKLO ur-language sequence that is amazing. Otherwise Providence sheds a new perspective on the whole Mythos, Inc it's purpose and even HPL's life.
13:34 I started dying lmao, like my dude just slides & it's all over just like that
This Cthulhu universe should have a movie adaptation
Naa they were some but they don't capture the vibes of it,also they don't tell/show it probably
Try "Lovecraft country" that's actually kinda good
Fun fact: Lovecraft was trolling when he was spelling Cthulhu. He never meant for the T to be pronounced. So you actually say: Clhulhu, substituting the T with an L.
It's quite the coincidence, though, that Cthulhu should rightly be pronounced as "Kutulu", and that "KUTU.LU" in Sumerian would translate as: "the Underworld Man".
@@williamdaliege1016 quite the coincidence indeed...
I pronounce it: "oo(t)h-ooloo." More of a guttural, back of the throat. Don't hard T, but soft T. It sounds way cooler than Koothooloo.
In the world of Cthulu... there is only ONE man that stands against the old gods ways............ CONAN THE BARBARIAN
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Cthulhu and all these elder gods seem more historical than the bible itself. This timeline seems so logical I'm beginning to think Lovecraft was not so out there after all
Secretly a prophet? The world my never know lol
ryleh cannot sink beneath the waves in 300m bc, because in call of cthulhu it says that although cthulhu was imprisoned, ryleh was still above land when the first humans appeared and sunk afterwards - aha!
Azathoth wakes up:-
Le Azathoth : " Ah Shit ! Here we go again !!"
I’m new to this but just to spread the word there’s a few Lovecraft inspired shows on the BBC i-player app, The Lovecraft Investigations weaves together two (I think) books & The Tomb is an half-hour short story. Gateway Lovecraft I think is the best description.
1:28 Identity V mentioned!
Great summary!
8:54
God damn it, Lovecraft...
Everyone's favorite xenophope
those aren't human, btw.
Azathoth reminds me of Yaldobaoth, the Gnostic Demiurge, while the Yekubians look to me like the Gnostic Archons. Seems Lovecraft took inspiration for Gnostic literature.
oh so you're a Lovecraft fan...
*what was the name of his cat?*
I
Um
_shit_
@Jotaro Kujo *insert quagmire turns into a toilet theme music here.
Nothing in the books say anything about Azathoth dreaming the universe.
Can you imagine how terrifying these creatures are? Humans as we call themselves started to truly form around 2 million years. Elder things traveled to earth with tech BILLIONS of years ago. Not to mention actually god like crearures of the mythos. I am not even include outer gods Shub Niggurah Nyarlathotep Yogsathoth etc. It s such a truly paralizing to think about.
Yep, you've nailed the definition of cosmic horror. The idea that we are so small and powerless compared to these incomprehensible beings and events is one of the scariest ideas, if not the scariest in all of fiction if you ask me.