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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Cthulhu Live and Prosper!


"QUANTUM SHOT" #157


You may not know about Cthulhu, but they know about you

The last post about Antarctica reminded me of that "unspeakable delicacy" of Lovecraft's imagination, namely the Cthulhu - "the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky."


(image credit: Dominique Signoret)

According to contemporary belief, a few of the species still lie dreaming, sleeping until the time comes - sort of like Lenin in his mausoleum, but infinitely more malevolent. This post serves to remind us of the coming threat ...and increase world awareness of Lenin's miserable plight - his ghost can not get any rest until the body gets a decent burial :)

Cthulhu pipe:


Cthulhu picture frame:


Cthulhu leather mask (weather-proof)
Computers
Computers


Cthulhu and H. P. Lovecraft postage stamps:


Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition Sweatshirt
Yes, the same Expedition, terrorized at the Mountains of Madness by various unspeakables and unmentionables.

available here

T-shirt:


All of the above images are from a very peculiar site Cthulhu Lives

Cthulhu for kids

Signs of Cthulhu were spotted in a former Russian Communist Pioneer Camp:
see photographic evidence in a link here
Architecture like that helps impressionable children to get used to the Cthulhu's presence (which would also explain a lot of weirdness in Soviet Russia)









Cthulhu toys:

(see more at John Kovalic's site)

Also see this Flickr set for nature's weirdest Cthulhu approximation.

The Mutant Lemon



More edible "mini-Cthulhu":



For the strangely Lovecraftian pastime for housewives, see this "Brain on Wool", and other examples of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art:



then take a stroll through the inviting woods:


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COMMENTS::

2 Comments:

Blogger Sigivald said...

To be pedantic, Cthulhu is not a species, but a specific unique entity, one of the Great Old Ones - essentially an exceedingly malevolent and locally powerful immortal being.

(Comparable, say, to a minor God in the Greek pantheon, but without any regard for humanity and with pseudopods.)

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Blogger The Constructivist said...

Yeah, but have you hugged the Shoggoth?

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  • These are truly wonderful pictures...I hope that one day I'd be able to visit Antarctica as well! (if it doesn't melt ;))
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  • Beautiful pictures. Although I believe that if that third picture down had been sent from one of the martian rovers, it would have been cited as evidence of extra-terrestrial life, does look like a face in profile, or is it just me ?
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  • Beautiful photos. Is it just me, or does it seem like this valley would be an ideal place to practice a manned Mars mission? Very dry, desolate, isolated, and cold....
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    The existence of frozen water would also occur if the contenient used to be covered in ice - that is what ice is.

    Even if Antarctica was once iceless (indeed this was almost certainly the case in Pangea and Gondwana Land) that says nothing of what would happen to our modern costal cities if this were to happen again. The same applies to animals now (but not formerly) trapped on islands or low-lying land, unique speciation events in costal forrests, world heritage coastal sites, etc.

    Nor does this prove, or even suggest, that humankind is not causing these changes this time around, as many would argue this SUDDEN rate of change (rather than the possible millenia in previous ages) suggests.
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  • The underwater lakes are a natural phenomenon. Most are buried under 2 miles of ice and are suspected to have microbial life forms that have been isolated from the rest of the planet for a very long time. Also NASA does test different designs down there. When I was there they asked if we could hop on a snow machine and ride 70 miles in the middle of winter to collect a big rolling ball that had hung up on the ice somewhere. We politely declined.
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    I was trying to describe the sky yesterday in a recent article I posted called "Magnificant Clouds". ChristianContent.org
    I thought I should find a picture and came across your gallery. WOW! I'll use one of my lines here. "Unrelenting Beauty"
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    I could spend weeks checking out all of the links :)
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