Cthulhu Mythos deities are a group of fictional deities created by American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), and later expanded by others in the fictional universe known as the Cthulhu mythos. These entities are usually depicted as immensely powerful and utterly indifferent to humans.

In Derleth's version of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthugha is a Great Old One, an elemental spirit of fire opposed to the Elder Gods. Derleth set its homeworld as the star Fomalhaut , which had featured in Lovecraft's poetry.

The Great Old Ones are differentiated from the Outer Gods and Elder Gods by being native to the universe. While there is much made of their Outer God parentage, it seems clear that they were brought forth as limited entities in the material universe and to a greater or lesser extent are limited by the laws therein.

🐙 The Great Old Ones are a group of unique, malignant beings of great power in the fictional cosmology of the Cthulhu Mythos. Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft's famous creation, is described as a Great Old One.

Oct 24, 2022 · Lovecraft was a staunch eugenicist (hence the racism) and was very interested in hierarchy and bloodlines. His pantheon of "gods" was similar to the greek and roman one. He did believe that the unknown creates greater terror, but his gods were partly his fantasy of a master race, so it's kind of a different thing.

The only real hierarchy that's straight from Lovecraft, as far as I can tell, is the distinction between "the weak gods of earth" that rule in Kadath and the "other gods" with Nyarlathotep as their messenger

The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones [1] and Elder Ones [2]) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1936, but written in 1931), and later appeared, although not named, in the short story "The Dreams in the Witch-House" .

The Great Old Ones are a group of powerful entities which play a major part in Cthulhu Mythos.

Mar 18, 2024 · The Great Old Ones in Derleth’s mythology being the deities Lovecraft would use in his own stories, such as Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, etc., however Lovecraft never associated these creatures as being “evil”, but instead …

The Great Old Ones are to be distinguished from the more cosmically placed entities such as Azathoth, Nyarlathotep and Yog-Sothoth, and from races such as the Cthonians, the Deep Ones, the Elder Things and the Mi-go.