A superb Conan story, very untypical, but I think one of the best, maybe even my favorite. The vocal performance is also excellent, though I wish the narrator had bothered to learn the correct pronunciation of "Cimmerian."
Thank u for reading this story and making the video. I have to ask, Outside of The Phoenix on the Sword, was Conan's status as a king ever talked about or mentioned in any of the other stories.
He's king in Phoenix of the sword, the scarlet citadel and the hour of the dragon (the only novel length Conan story and longest Conan story) he's king in only these 3 stories. He's also mentioned in the unfinished wolves of the border but don't think he's king but close to it. This is all there is. In red nails he mentions he may be king foreshadowing his future as king. But overall hes only king for only 3 stories but they are all great
Hi there. Yes, to answer your question. As you may already know, Conan’s kingship is something that’s progressive. It is a fantasy of his, to be a king someday, of some place. Sorry, I can’t be specific about which stories say what. I need to Google the order to which each story was written and start from the beginning. Cheers.
So just out of interest, which of the Gods of Howard's Conan Universe (and feel free to throw in Lovecraft's as well since they were peers and throw in Game of Thrones while you're at it and Warhammer too why don't cha!) would you think is "real" or actually worship or follow and believe in? The Gods seem to be inspired by "real life" Gods as well as "real" aspects of life. Even Lovecraft's Gods seem analogous to some real deities and conceptsm, some of which are taken quite seriously today. In the films, it seems a variant if Dagon might have taken on the name Dagoth, similar to how Biblical deity names of "enemy gods" would take on "oth" like Ashtaroth for example. Ajujo of the Black Kingdoms - Combat, Luck, Plague Male Anu of Ophir - Fertility, Strength Male Ashtoreth of Shem - Fertility, Protection Female Asura of Vendhya, Iranistan - Healing, Illusion, Knowledge, Serpents Male Bel of Zamora, Shem - Chaos, Death, Trickery The Masked God Bori of Hyperborea - Strength, War Male Crom of Cimmeria The Grim and Grey God Dagon or Dagoth of Shem, Black Kingdoms -Protection, Water, Weather Male Damballah of Zembabwei, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Serpents Male Set of Stygia Derketo of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Healing, Seduction Female Derketa of the Black Kingdoms Erlik of Turan, Hyrkania - Death, Knowledge, Prophecy Male The God of the Yellow Hand of Death and the Golden Peacock of Shem - Blood, Trickery Gwahlur of Keshan - Darkness, Prophecy Male The King of Darkness Hanuman of Zamboula, Vendhya - Beast, Illusion, Knowledge Male Lord of the Black Throne Harakht, Hawk - God of Stygia - Animal, Knowledge, War Male Ibis of Stygia, Nemedia - Knowledge, Magic, Protection Male Ishtar of Shem, Koth, Khauran, Khoraja - Earth, Healing, Fertility, Seduction Female Earth-Mother Shub-Niggurath Jhebbal Sag of Pictland, Black Kingdoms - Beast, Chaos, Strength Male Lord of Beasts Jhil Ghanata of Darfar, Picts - Air, Law, Strength Male Jullah of Black Kingdoms, Picts - Beast, Strength Male Gullah of Pictland Kali of Vendhya, Ghulistan - Death, Fertility, Healing, War Female The Black Mother Mitra of Western Kingdoms - Good, Healing, Protection, Sun Male Nebethet of Punt - Death, Luck, ProphecyFemale The Ivory Goddess Nergal of Shem - Destruction, Plague, War Male Pteor of Shem - Air, Fertility, Strength Male Adonis Set of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Magic, Serpents, Weather Male Father Set, The Great Serpent, Damballah of Black Kingdoms Wiccana of Brythunia -Healing, Plant Female Nature Goddess Xotli of Atlantis - Blood, Evil Yajur of Kosala - Death, Prophecy The God of Yota-Pong Yama of Meru - Evil, Fire Male King of Devils Ymir of Nordheim - Destruction, Strength, War Male The Frost Giant Yog of Darfar, Zuagir - Bats, Blood, Darkness The Lord of Empty Abodes, Camazotz Yun of Khitai - Guardian, Plant Zath of Zamora - Darkness, Spiders or Omm, The Spider-God of Yezud Deities and Demi-gods of the Hyborian Age Nordheimr/Cimmerian Gods Ymir the frost-giant - Nordheimr god Atali - Ymir's Daughter, Nordheimr god Frost Giants/Ice Giants - Ymir's Sons, Nordheimr gods Cimmerian gods Crom - Cimmerian god Lir - Cimmerian god Mannanan - Cimmerian god, son of Lir Badb - Cimmerian war goddess Morrigan - Cimmerian goddess of battle, strife, and fertility Macha - Cimmerian goddess of war, horses, sovereignty Nemain - Cimmerian goddess of the havoc of war Diancecht Dagda Hyborian gods Bori - Hyborian god, chief and king Mitra - Hyborian god Anu - Corinthian sky god Fear - Hyborian god Fate - Hyborian god Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess Death - Hyborian god Time - Hyborian god Darkness - Hyborian god Light - Hyborian god Night - Hyborian god Nameless Old Ones - Hyborian gods Nightmare - Hyborian god Ahriman - Hyborian god/devil Night of the World - Hyborian god Stygian gods Ibis - Stygian god of wisdom and the moon Set - Stygian Serpent-god Child of Set - Giant serpent with human head, Stygian god Giant-Kings/Monster Kings - Pre-Stygian Race of gods Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure Shemitish gods Bel - Zamoran god, god of thieves Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure Ashtoreth - Shemitish goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war Adonis - Shemitish god Dagon - Shemitish fish god Baal - Archeronian/ Shemitish god/demon Devil - Shemitish god Pteor - Pelishtim god Vendhyan gods Asura - Vendhyan god Yizil - Vendhyan god Kosalan god Yajur - Kosalan god Gods of the Black Kingdoms Jullah - Kushite god Princess Yelaya - Alkmeenonian, Oracle of Alkmeenon, goddess to Keshan Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Kushite raven god Ajujo, the Dark One - Kushite god Gwahlur - Keshani god Derketa Queen of the Dead - Kushite goddess Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts Ivory Woman of Punt Hyrkanian gods Yog Lord of the Empty Abodes - Hyrkanian demon god Hanuman - Hykanian ape-god Erlik - Hyrkanian god of death and the underworld Tarim - Hyrkanian god Zamorian god spider-god of Yezud Pictish gods and demi-gods Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts Zogar Sag - Pict, Gwaweli tribe, Pictish wizard, shaman, Jhebbal Sag's son Hairy One who lives on the moon - Pictish god, gorilla-god of Gullah Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Kushite raven god Children of Jhil - Pictish raven familiars Khitan gods Yag-Kosha/Yogah of Yag - Demon of the Elder World, from the green planet Yag worshiped by the Yellow-skulled priests of Yun Yun - Khitan god Other gods and demi-gods gods of Yag Thog - Xuthalan god, shadow monster Khosatral Khel - Transmutated sorcerer, the ancient from the Abyss, Dagonian god Ollam-onga - Vampire, god of Gazal dragon gods - gods of Xuchotl Thaug - Giant shadowy monster worshipped by Taramis gods and goddesses of the night worshipped by Taramis Eve - Judeo/Christian progenitor blonde demigod blonde demigod's father devil from the outer dark/bat demon worshipped by the brown women of The Vale of Lost Women
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO Awesome, great choice, so do you like Ishtar? I like what you wrote, as some other food for thought which may not necessarily be true or accurate though: Since Azazel came to be sort of associated with the goat due to the sacrifices left for Azazel which may have been connected to the Earth and under the Earth element, Lillith, or Lilitu (or whatever) was associated with the creatures of the night, typically given bird-like iconography, but was at times considered a kind of "mother of monsters" character, that may have also then been conflated with the other malign entities, such as the Shedim (sometimes considered the "offspring" of Lillith or Azazel variously) and the Se'irim "he-goat" "Leviticus 17:7 admonishes Israel to keep from sacrificing to the Se'irim.[11] Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls describe the nether regions as full of Se'irim.[12]" Sometimes, images of Ishtar are taken and mixed or mixed up with images of Lillin or Lillith and Ishtar (or the male Ashtar, Ashtaroth, Astar, or Attar) were demonized by some Semitic people, while already having sometimes scary aspects linked to themselves. Artemis of Ephesus is another good candidate as well as Hecate. Besides these, there is also Tiamat and Echidna, both linked more closely to the serpentine than the caprine ("goat-like"). The strongest negative association with the goat, based on stories about Azazel most-likely and after a long time, comes from ideas about Satan and "Baphomet" (the Occitan word for Mahomet or Muhammed). What is really interesting or mystical though is that I was recently looking up things from Marvel and Shub-Niggurath came up because of Shuma Gorath and also N'astirh, two sort of demonic entities from Marvel comics. The name Shuma Gorath is suspected to be inspired potentially by Shub-Niggurath, and in the Marvel designs can take any form but often manifests some portion of its power into forms or entities which it controls which appear like an eye with tentacles (and in the Capcom designs, can be quite cute in my opinion). N'astirh on the other hand has a horse-like head which might also resemble that of a goat at times, sometimes in much later art that of a lion, though their overall appearance might be that of some sort of dragon as well. Since these names are made up, it is sometimes imagined that they had a basis in some references that might come to mind when they are read or uttered, for example the "Nigg" element might bring to mind blackness and night, the "rath" element might bring to mind wrath and also the "oth" and "roth" at the end of terms like Astaroth (which was the "oth" added to Astar or Ishtar). Here are some interesting clues: "Our name in plural, עשתרות (ashtarot), is used four times not as a name but as a regular word. It happens only in Deuteronomy and only in the phrase עשתרות צאנך (ashtarot so'nek), in which the second part means "your flock," particularly a flock of small animals such as sheep (but note that sheep-products - wool, milk, meat, even horns - formed the foundation of social life)." "It seems pretty safe to conclude that the original name where the Hebrew name Ashtoreth was drawn from, was either shoehorned into an already existing word meaning fertility, or else the existing name Ashtoreth was used as a word meaning fertility without actually referring to a pagan practice. In much the same way, we still speak of "the stars in the sky" without consciously referring to Astarte, Queen of Heaven, where the phrase came from." This is from a website called "Abarim Publications" As for the connection to the "woods" it was likely to reference artworks and stories about the Witches' Sabbath and Black Sabbath's in the woods and caves and mysterious places, where humans and demons commune and copulate and potentially even introduce more demonic and unholy creatures into the world, according to the stories and the ideas, which often involved cross-breeding, gaining familiar creatures, and the elements or acts necessary to create more witches and warlocks and villains of body-horror and transformative magic. Feel free to contact me at theartismagistra at the g sort of mail if you like discussing or reading about these sorts of things haha, it can be a lot of fun and creatively stimulating at the very least!
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO The Wikipedia Articles for Akerbeltz and Akelarre may be of interest as well, but I don't know if Lovecraft was actually familiar with any of this Basque folklore rather than the general European folklore regarding Witches and the Sabbath, The Devil and Pan and stuff like that, plus Greek and Eastern mythological knowledge from the time. I wrote in some notes a few weeks ago: "I was looking up Shuma-Gorath, leading to Shub-Niggurath, leading to Sheol-Nugganoth (Yog-Sothoth, Bal-Sagoth, Yuggoth) where oth was weaved into names by Hebrew authors who were mixing in some kind of curse word or infamy and ban into the names of things, like how Asteroth ended up being spelled and pronounced that way." So "Sheol-Nugganoth" might be something to look up as well if you were interested, from "The Idle Days of Yann": by Lord Dunsany. The "Sheol" element would refer to the Underworld and the Land of the Dead, and in many ways "Sheol-Nugganoth" in being obscure or forgotten may be a kind of "dead God" like other people and things which are dead and lost, sort of like the God of the Obscure and Faded.
I was enjoying this until the AI pronounced hall as hail when the guards entered at the beginning. I simply don't appreciate AI mixed with art, another job lost to computers. Also, very lazy editing by the producers
A very nice reading. Thank you.
My favorite
You’d think, or at least I have, that there would be a picture of Conan with prominent blue eyes.
superb narration!
Is it me or does the clerk sound like Newman from sienfeld?
The picture is from red nails !!
The blond woman is Valeria right.
@@ghostwarrior3878 Aye...
A superb Conan story, very untypical, but I think one of the best, maybe even my favorite. The vocal performance is also excellent, though I wish the narrator had bothered to learn the correct pronunciation of "Cimmerian."
Awesome. Thanks mate.
Thank u for reading this story and making the video.
I have to ask, Outside of The Phoenix on the Sword, was Conan's status as a king ever talked about or mentioned in any of the other stories.
The Hour of the Dragon is the longest Conan story. He is king of Aquilonia in that one too.
He is king of Aquilonia in 'The Scarlet Citadel' as well.
He's king in Phoenix of the sword, the scarlet citadel and the hour of the dragon (the only novel length Conan story and longest Conan story) he's king in only these 3 stories. He's also mentioned in the unfinished wolves of the border but don't think he's king but close to it. This is all there is. In red nails he mentions he may be king foreshadowing his future as king. But overall hes only king for only 3 stories but they are all great
Hi there. Yes, to answer your question. As you may already know, Conan’s kingship is something that’s progressive. It is a fantasy of his, to be a king someday, of some place. Sorry, I can’t be specific about which stories say what. I need to Google the order to which each story was written and start from the beginning. Cheers.
thank you !
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So just out of interest, which of the Gods of Howard's Conan Universe (and feel free to throw in Lovecraft's as well since they were peers and throw in Game of Thrones while you're at it and Warhammer too why don't cha!) would you think is "real" or actually worship or follow and believe in? The Gods seem to be inspired by "real life" Gods as well as "real" aspects of life. Even Lovecraft's Gods seem analogous to some real deities and conceptsm, some of which are taken quite seriously today. In the films, it seems a variant if Dagon might have taken on the name Dagoth, similar to how Biblical deity names of "enemy gods" would take on "oth" like Ashtaroth for example.
Ajujo of the Black Kingdoms - Combat, Luck, Plague Male
Anu of Ophir - Fertility, Strength Male
Ashtoreth of Shem - Fertility, Protection Female
Asura of Vendhya, Iranistan - Healing, Illusion, Knowledge, Serpents Male
Bel of Zamora, Shem - Chaos, Death, Trickery
The Masked God Bori of Hyperborea - Strength, War Male
Crom of Cimmeria The Grim and Grey God
Dagon or Dagoth of Shem, Black Kingdoms -Protection, Water, Weather Male
Damballah of Zembabwei, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Serpents Male
Set of Stygia
Derketo of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Healing, Seduction Female
Derketa of the Black Kingdoms
Erlik of Turan, Hyrkania - Death, Knowledge, Prophecy Male
The God of the Yellow Hand of Death and the Golden Peacock of Shem - Blood, Trickery
Gwahlur of Keshan - Darkness, Prophecy Male The King of Darkness
Hanuman of Zamboula, Vendhya - Beast, Illusion, Knowledge Male
Lord of the Black Throne
Harakht, Hawk - God of Stygia - Animal, Knowledge, War Male
Ibis of Stygia, Nemedia - Knowledge, Magic, Protection Male
Ishtar of Shem, Koth, Khauran, Khoraja - Earth, Healing, Fertility, Seduction Female
Earth-Mother
Shub-Niggurath
Jhebbal Sag of Pictland, Black Kingdoms - Beast, Chaos, Strength Male Lord of Beasts
Jhil Ghanata of Darfar, Picts - Air, Law, Strength Male
Jullah of Black Kingdoms, Picts - Beast, Strength Male
Gullah of Pictland
Kali of Vendhya, Ghulistan - Death, Fertility, Healing, War Female
The Black Mother
Mitra of Western Kingdoms - Good, Healing, Protection, Sun Male
Nebethet of Punt - Death, Luck, ProphecyFemale The Ivory Goddess
Nergal of Shem - Destruction, Plague, War Male
Pteor of Shem - Air, Fertility, Strength Male
Adonis
Set of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Magic, Serpents, Weather Male Father Set, The Great Serpent, Damballah of Black Kingdoms
Wiccana of Brythunia -Healing, Plant Female Nature Goddess
Xotli of Atlantis - Blood, Evil
Yajur of Kosala - Death, Prophecy
The God of Yota-Pong
Yama of Meru - Evil, Fire Male King of Devils
Ymir of Nordheim - Destruction, Strength, War Male The Frost Giant
Yog of Darfar, Zuagir - Bats, Blood, Darkness The Lord of Empty Abodes, Camazotz
Yun of Khitai - Guardian, Plant
Zath of Zamora - Darkness, Spiders or Omm, The Spider-God of Yezud
Deities and Demi-gods of the Hyborian Age
Nordheimr/Cimmerian Gods
Ymir the frost-giant - Nordheimr god
Atali - Ymir's Daughter, Nordheimr god
Frost Giants/Ice Giants - Ymir's Sons, Nordheimr gods
Cimmerian gods
Crom - Cimmerian god
Lir - Cimmerian god
Mannanan - Cimmerian god, son of Lir
Badb - Cimmerian war goddess
Morrigan - Cimmerian goddess of battle, strife, and fertility
Macha - Cimmerian goddess of war, horses, sovereignty
Nemain - Cimmerian goddess of the havoc of war
Diancecht
Dagda
Hyborian gods
Bori - Hyborian god, chief and king
Mitra - Hyborian god
Anu - Corinthian sky god
Fear - Hyborian god
Fate - Hyborian god
Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess
Death - Hyborian god
Time - Hyborian god
Darkness - Hyborian god
Light - Hyborian god
Night - Hyborian god
Nameless Old Ones - Hyborian gods
Nightmare - Hyborian god
Ahriman - Hyborian god/devil
Night of the World - Hyborian god
Stygian gods
Ibis - Stygian god of wisdom and the moon
Set - Stygian Serpent-god
Child of Set - Giant serpent with human head, Stygian god
Giant-Kings/Monster Kings - Pre-Stygian Race of gods
Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure
Shemitish gods
Bel - Zamoran god, god of thieves
Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess
Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure
Ashtoreth - Shemitish goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war
Adonis - Shemitish god
Dagon - Shemitish fish god
Baal - Archeronian/ Shemitish god/demon
Devil - Shemitish god
Pteor - Pelishtim god
Vendhyan gods
Asura - Vendhyan god
Yizil - Vendhyan god
Kosalan god
Yajur - Kosalan god
Gods of the Black Kingdoms
Jullah - Kushite god
Princess Yelaya - Alkmeenonian, Oracle of Alkmeenon, goddess to Keshan
Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Kushite raven god
Ajujo, the Dark One - Kushite god
Gwahlur - Keshani god
Derketa Queen of the Dead - Kushite goddess
Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts
Ivory Woman of Punt
Hyrkanian gods
Yog Lord of the Empty Abodes - Hyrkanian demon god
Hanuman - Hykanian ape-god
Erlik - Hyrkanian god of death and the underworld
Tarim - Hyrkanian god
Zamorian god
spider-god of Yezud
Pictish gods and demi-gods
Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts
Zogar Sag - Pict, Gwaweli tribe, Pictish wizard, shaman, Jhebbal Sag's son
Hairy One who lives on the moon - Pictish god, gorilla-god of Gullah
Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Kushite raven god
Children of Jhil - Pictish raven familiars
Khitan gods
Yag-Kosha/Yogah of Yag - Demon of the Elder World, from the green planet Yag worshiped by the Yellow-skulled priests of Yun
Yun - Khitan god
Other gods and demi-gods
gods of Yag
Thog - Xuthalan god, shadow monster
Khosatral Khel - Transmutated sorcerer, the ancient from the Abyss, Dagonian god
Ollam-onga - Vampire, god of Gazal
dragon gods - gods of Xuchotl
Thaug - Giant shadowy monster worshipped by Taramis
gods and goddesses of the night worshipped by Taramis
Eve - Judeo/Christian progenitor
blonde demigod
blonde demigod's father
devil from the outer dark/bat demon worshipped by the brown women of The Vale of Lost Women
The black goat of a thousand young.
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO Thank you very much! Any specific reason why?
@@aFoxyFox. according to my understanding the black goat of a thousand young, shubniggurath was worshipped by the Sumerians as the goddess Ishtar
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO Awesome, great choice, so do you like Ishtar?
I like what you wrote, as some other food for thought which may not necessarily be true or accurate though:
Since Azazel came to be sort of associated with the goat due to the sacrifices left for Azazel which may have been connected to the Earth and under the Earth element, Lillith, or Lilitu (or whatever) was associated with the creatures of the night, typically given bird-like iconography, but was at times considered a kind of "mother of monsters" character, that may have also then been conflated with the other malign entities, such as the Shedim (sometimes considered the "offspring" of Lillith or Azazel variously) and the Se'irim "he-goat" "Leviticus 17:7 admonishes Israel to keep from sacrificing to the Se'irim.[11] Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls describe the nether regions as full of Se'irim.[12]"
Sometimes, images of Ishtar are taken and mixed or mixed up with images of Lillin or Lillith and Ishtar (or the male Ashtar, Ashtaroth, Astar, or Attar) were demonized by some Semitic people, while already having sometimes scary aspects linked to themselves.
Artemis of Ephesus is another good candidate as well as Hecate.
Besides these, there is also Tiamat and Echidna, both linked more closely to the serpentine than the caprine ("goat-like").
The strongest negative association with the goat, based on stories about Azazel most-likely and after a long time, comes from ideas about Satan and "Baphomet" (the Occitan word for Mahomet or Muhammed).
What is really interesting or mystical though is that I was recently looking up things from Marvel and Shub-Niggurath came up because of Shuma Gorath and also N'astirh, two sort of demonic entities from Marvel comics. The name Shuma Gorath is suspected to be inspired potentially by Shub-Niggurath, and in the Marvel designs can take any form but often manifests some portion of its power into forms or entities which it controls which appear like an eye with tentacles (and in the Capcom designs, can be quite cute in my opinion). N'astirh on the other hand has a horse-like head which might also resemble that of a goat at times, sometimes in much later art that of a lion, though their overall appearance might be that of some sort of dragon as well.
Since these names are made up, it is sometimes imagined that they had a basis in some references that might come to mind when they are read or uttered, for example the
"Nigg" element might bring to mind blackness and night, the "rath" element might bring to mind wrath and also the "oth" and "roth" at the end of terms like Astaroth (which was the "oth" added to Astar or Ishtar). Here are some interesting clues:
"Our name in plural, עשתרות (ashtarot), is used four times not as a name but as a regular word. It happens only in Deuteronomy and only in the phrase עשתרות צאנך (ashtarot so'nek), in which the second part means "your flock," particularly a flock of small animals such as sheep (but note that sheep-products - wool, milk, meat, even horns - formed the foundation of social life)."
"It seems pretty safe to conclude that the original name where the Hebrew name Ashtoreth was drawn from, was either shoehorned into an already existing word meaning fertility, or else the existing name Ashtoreth was used as a word meaning fertility without actually referring to a pagan practice. In much the same way, we still speak of "the stars in the sky" without consciously referring to Astarte, Queen of Heaven, where the phrase came from."
This is from a website called "Abarim Publications"
As for the connection to the "woods" it was likely to reference artworks and stories about the Witches' Sabbath and Black Sabbath's in the woods and caves and mysterious places, where humans and demons commune and copulate and potentially even introduce more demonic and unholy creatures into the world, according to the stories and the ideas, which often involved cross-breeding, gaining familiar creatures, and the elements or acts necessary to create more witches and warlocks and villains of body-horror and transformative magic.
Feel free to contact me at theartismagistra at the g sort of mail if you like discussing or reading about these sorts of things haha, it can be a lot of fun and creatively stimulating at the very least!
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO The Wikipedia Articles for Akerbeltz and Akelarre may be of interest as well, but I don't know if Lovecraft was actually familiar with any of this Basque folklore rather than the general European folklore regarding Witches and the Sabbath, The Devil and Pan and stuff like that, plus Greek and Eastern mythological knowledge from the time.
I wrote in some notes a few weeks ago: "I was looking up Shuma-Gorath, leading to Shub-Niggurath, leading to Sheol-Nugganoth (Yog-Sothoth, Bal-Sagoth, Yuggoth) where oth was weaved into names by Hebrew authors who were mixing in some kind of curse word or infamy and ban into the names of things, like how Asteroth ended up being spelled and pronounced that way."
So "Sheol-Nugganoth" might be something to look up as well if you were interested, from "The Idle Days of Yann": by Lord Dunsany.
The "Sheol" element would refer to the Underworld and the Land of the Dead, and in many ways "Sheol-Nugganoth" in being obscure or forgotten may be a kind of "dead God" like other people and things which are dead and lost, sort of like the God of the Obscure and Faded.
I was enjoying this until the AI pronounced hall as hail when the guards entered at the beginning. I simply don't appreciate AI mixed with art, another job lost to computers. Also, very lazy editing by the producers
I don't think AI was this advanced 6 years ago buddy
Trailing for non-AI audiobooks results in more or less just letting age be the determining factor...