![]() The in-story myth about Erebus, called The Tale of the Student and His Son is probably the best passage in the whole series. They send telepathic dreams, and telepathically control entire continents of people, and they are served by huge mermaids, and they want to prevent the sun from being reborn. In series The Book of the New Sun, there are Cthulhu-like entities named Erebus (god of darkness and shadow) and Abaia (Giant Eel god that lives at the bottom of a lake) that came out of space and were small seeds that were thrown into the ocean and grew to be the size of mountains. I have previously posted about the Isle of Faces being the Kraken of mythology, as the Kraken is described as an island with trees on its back, and branches for arms. In ASoIaF, something fell out of the sky at Starfall, and a White Tower rose up where it fell, and the Greatsword Dawn was made out of it, and the Whitesword Tower houses Dawn. And their phrase is "what is dead may never die" which is very close to the phrase "That is not dead which can eternal lie" from Cthulhu. Gaelic is the language of Ireland and the Iron Islands are Ireland, and I think that is why they have the most Cthulhu stuff associated with them. And Naga means "serpent" in Hindi, and Nagga drowned whole islands. And Nagga's ribs are a weirwood circle, and nagadaun means "wormwood" in Hindi, and the Ironborn foundational myth is about Nagga and the Greyking, and Greyking, krieken, and gryja all mean "dawn". The Idols of Cthulhu also fell out of the sky, and the Seastone Chair is a big Cthulhu statue that the Ironborn pulled out of the ocean and used as their throne-a weirwood throne is something that fell out of the sky, and their driftwood crown is a weirwood crown-driftwood is wood that came from the sea. Lovecraft was obsessed with the idea of starfall/sky-spawn, it features in many of his stories: the fungus crabs from Whisperer were skyspawn (fungus from the sky that evaporates when it dies), the vampire meteor in Colour out of Space was sky spawn, Cthulhu was sky spawn, Yog-Sothoth was sky-spawn (agglutination of bubbles = frogspawn), and shuggoths are sky-spawn.Ĭthulhu is called "the green sticky spawn of the stars" and a nebulous "sky-spawn" and "the thing from the stars" he fell out of the sky and landed in the ocean, and grew to the size of a mountain.Ĭthulhu is the Drowned God. ![]() It may be a kind of fungus that blooms overnight then wilts away during the day. In the real world, occasionally farmers and other people would find mysterious glutinous jelly in their fields or on the ground or even in trees, and they believed it had fallen out of the sky as a meteor, and they called it Starfall, Star Jelly, frogspawn, and various other names. Cthulhu is called "Mighty Cthulhu" in the text.Īnd glothagach means "frogspawn" and gibernach means "squid, octopus" and those could be part of the first half of the chant, and Cthulhu gibbers when he awakes and Cthulhu is frogspawn, which leads to my next point. There are double meanings, as the phrase "Cthulhu fhtagn" could mean "Cthulhu waits in the abyss" or "Mighty Cthulhu" (as fataighe means "mighty") or both. "waiting in the temple under the deep, dark pool, dark, time, abyss, cuttlefish tomb/crypt grave abyss waits in the bottom of the ocean"įan= "temple, wait, under the" glum= "dark, deep pool, gloom, " muigeal= "dark" uine = "time" aibhean = "abyss" cuitheal="cuttlefish" reilige="crypt, grave, stone box" uaighean = "grave, tomb" aigeal= "abyss, bottom of the ocean" feith= "waits" aigean = "abyss" Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagnįan glum muigeal uine aibh' Cthulhu reilige uaighean aigeal feith aigean From previous research I have found that Lovecraft primarily used Dwelly's Gaelic Dictionary, and if you flip through Dwelly and just map corresponding words in the phrase with Gaelic words: Its not gibberish, it is Gaelic, but the words are all misspelled, and the spaces are in the wrong spots. ![]() ![]() ![]() I figured out the phrase that Cthulhu's followers chant: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" which in the text he says means " In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." ![]()
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