The mysteries of Pacific Cthulhu

Deep down R'lyeh - the rocky city buried in the Pacific Ocean is a powerful person with unimaginable power. Even if you only look at the appearance of this creature, you cannot keep your sanity. Legend has it that he lay still under the waves and waited until the stars in the sky joined together to begin to rise to reclaim his position on the ground.

It is Cthulhu - the creature of HP Lovecraft - one of the most famous writers of fiction. However, after much evidence found by researchers, Cthulhu is a real monster and is believed to be part of a mysterious sequence involving extraterrestrial creatures whose power and abilities are they are beyond human knowledge. Although Cthulhu is just one of the creatures born from imagination and drawn by Lovecraft's pen, this author also maintains a belief in a relative degree of Cthulhu's existence as well as the secret. Secret of his uncle's death. In fact, many people believe that Cthulhu is a monster that has appeared in the famous Cloverfield movie.

Cthulhu monster

In this article, readers will be provided with a lot of interesting information about Cthulhu, the origins and mysteries, learn about the custom of worshiping Cthulhu and the location of Cthulhu in popular culture.

Before learning about the origins, legends and how Cthulhu can communicate with people, let's learn how to read the name of this monster.

How do you read Cthulhu? You say "kuh-THOO-loo", I say "kuh-TOO-loo".

Lovecraft explained that the language of the ancient people was not the same as human expressions, so any attempt to pronounce Cthulhu's correct name seemed to be only approximate. The most recommended reading is " khûl-lhoo" , however, the most common reading is "kuh-THOO-loo".

What is Cthulhu Pacific monster?

The name Cthulhu first appeared in the short story The Call of Cthulhu written by writer HP Lovecraft in 1926, although no one in the story has been confirmed to be true. all. Cthulhu in this book is just a product of imagination or only appears in the author's dreams. The narrator states that the Cthulhu statue, somewhat, resembles octopus, dragons and humans or a creature with a human-like form. From this description, artists and sculptors created many works depicting monsters with octopus-like heads (with tentacles) and a pair of giant wings attached to the back to describe Cthulhu .

The Call of Cthulhu

Lovecraft did not describe much about Cthulhu monsters. The author mentions that Cthulhu once controlled the Earth and someday, this monster will return to the green planet to continue executing this mission. According to the story, the narrator discovered that Cthulhu was imprisoned in a rocky city deep in the ocean, but an unexpected earthquake caused a part of the city to float above the water. Although Cthulhu is not awakened, it can signal to the brains of some creatures and special people (who possess brains that are "immune" to the influence of Cthulhu). At the end of the story is also revealed, after a terrible storm, the city was once again pushed to the seabed and Cthulhu returned to its place.

HP Lovecraft

This story also introduces the custom of Cthulhu worship by a group of people who believe that Cthulhu will surely return and the mission that it takes to promote it. They prophesied the time when Cthulhu rose and took control of the Earth. Humanity will now have to put aside the views of civilization and overpowering. Chaos will begin and men will also return to their characteristic instincts.

The origin of Cthulhu

According to Lovecraft, humans never fully understand Cthulhu because the existence of this monster is often synonymous with death. Lovecraft's world contains many creatures that no one can understand. Some of them are known as The Great Old Ones or The Old Ones , their bodies are fierce, strong, disgusting and have a very long life, less than stars. Although Lovecraft used the phrase "The Great Old Ones" in a rather contradictory way, most people who believed Lovecraft's point of view accepted that Cthulhu was one of the extraterrestrial monsters that only existed in part. in our limited world only.

The Great Old Ones

Because Lovecraft's stories are almost always told by the first person who is the narrator with limited knowledge so the things we know just stop there. Other authors who have expanded Lovecraft's worldview and the community of interested people in the world have also fallen into long-running arguments with views beyond the rules of the myth and should not be repeat again. What we know is that The Great Old Ones comes from a planet light years away from Earth and probably, they really exist, at least in a certain way - in many ways that humans can't catch it yet.

Many monsters of The Great Old Ones are present on Earth, although our green planet at that time was still very young and had no life.Elder things - another monster that Lovecraft sometimes calls Old Ones took over the Earth, building giant cities and perhaps contributing to the creation of life on this planet. When The Great Old Ones was confronted by Elder Things , a peace deal was established. The Great Old Ones formed the stone city of R'lyeh , ruling Earth for millions of years until humanity appeared.

Elder Things

Cthulhu worship

In prehistoric times, Cthulhu connected with people with telepathy , leading them to ancient temples and areas where people discovered statues, art works from other worlds. The Great Old Ones created these statues from non-existent materials on Earth and since then, the Cthulhu worship began to take shape.

Not long after the human race appeared, R'lyeh was buried in the ocean floor, making The Great Old Ones trapped. A small part of the human race still remembers how to contact Cthulhu with telepathy and continues to worship this monster. Lovecraft notes that this custom extends throughout the Earth, from China to Greenland and the swamps in Louisiana with the "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!", Repeated 3 times and Speak as quickly as possible.

Cthulhu worship

Lovecraft explained that brain signals cannot penetrate thick water so The Great Old Ones is isolated from the human world and cannot have any direct impact. They lay dormant under the stone city, waiting for a day when the stars in the sky connected and R'lyeh would float on the water again. In addition, Lovecraft also stated the coordinates of the old city in his "The Call of Cthulhu": South 47 ° 9 'and Northern 126 ° 43' 47. At the same time, he described the city's architecture. This street does not follow the laws of the Euclidean (non-Euclidean), full of angles and strange curved surfaces that seem to have protrusions over time.

Myths about Cthulhu

Lovecraft created a lot of strange and ferocious creatures in his works and his whole life, encouraging his friends to write new stories from their own fictional world. He was a prolific writer and historians have stored a lot of letters that he sent to other authors, including long discussions about the content of the works and how to make people Other can use them.

Lovecraft fans see his story as a myth about Cthulhu, despite the fact that this monster is not the strongest creature in the collection of "monstrous" creatures that Lovecraft imagined. However, we must also point out that Lovecraft has written many stories and poems without any connection with the myths of Cthulhu. What is really interesting is that Cthulhu is no longer limited to his imagination, but on the contrary, the stories of these monsters have grown tremendously.

Here are some other monsters that appear on the mythical list of Cthulhu:

1. Azathoth: The creature possesses unlimited size and strength to govern the infinity center.

Azathoth

2. Dagon: The creature is considered the "father" of many other monsters such as Deep Ones, shaped half-human and half-fish. Dagon is not a monster in Lovecraft's imagination - this is the key god of the Philistines .

Dagon

3. Hastur: The evil god, commonly known as the "unknown monster" because whenever someone reminds the monster of the monster, it appears in a very bad mood.

Hastur

4. Nyarlathotep: Souls and messengers of other gods, whose shape is not clearly defined due to the transformation.

Nyarlathotep

5. Shoggoths: Created by Elder Things, acting as a slave and able to transform into many other forms, such as sticky sticky bodies.

Shoggoths

6. Yog-Sothoth: The supreme deity, playing a decisive role in existence and time, is mentioned a lot in the mystic book Necronomico.

Yog-Sothoth

Does Cthulhu emit Bloop sound?

Bloop's location is known

In 1977, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered a mysterious sound in the Pacific Ocean while using a microphone to probe Soviet submarines during the Cold War. This sound is emitted at extremely low frequencies, in the range of 50 ° S, 100 ° W (a remote point in the south of Thai Binh) but the volume is so large that even devices that are 5,000km away can catch. When it comes to speeding up the sound, it seems like Bloop. Some comment that Bloop sounds like a whale's sound, however, biologists claim that the whale must be much larger than the size of the largest whale. who knows. Worth mentioning is that after a period of repetition in the seabed, Bloop suddenly disappears without a trace. Those who believe in Cthulhu's existence give the idea that this is the snore of a monster sleeping in the heart of the buried city R'lyeh.

Cthulhu in popular culture

Thanks to the mystery, Cthulhu has appeared in many films, television, comics, games, music and even ancient cultures. Lovecraft made an effort to exert a strong impact on the reader, despite the fact that Cthulhu did not appear much in the author's works. Perhaps, because Cthulhu is related to the Earth and has been confined to this planet for thousands of years or perhaps, a description of this monster's appearance will make us feel scared, frightened. disgusting and obsessed. Whatever the reason (though not yet discovered), Cthulhu has become the real "The Great Old One".

Some films used Lovecraft's horror ideas such as Re-Animator, In the Mouth of Madness, Dagon, The Dunwich Horror and Necronomicon.

Cthulhu in Necronomicon

A horror genre RPG called Call of Cthulhu has also been released. This game has a plot inspired by the myths of Cthulhu. In addition, another video game called Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth has also been released. Players will play the main character on an adventure to explore Lovecraft's fantasy world, facing nightmares and efforts to survive.

However, all about Cthulhu is still a mystery and, perhaps, they only appear in dreams.