That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
In the Lovecraft Cosmos it does not behoove any fool to awaken, annoy or otherwise disturb the gods.
Apart from the undesirable and injudicious arousal of Cthulhu in “The Call of Cthulhu”, Bokrug – the Great Water Lizard god was much displeased when the men of Sarnath slaughtered the inhabitants of Ib who were,
“…in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it....[T]hey had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice.”
– Wikipedia entry “The Doom That Came To Sarnath”
In “The Curse of Yig” Audrey Davis incurs the anger of the snake-god Yig when she kills some of his children – deadly rattlers! Other characters descend into insanity merely through the worship of his terrifying deities.
Unsurprisingly, given Lovecraft’s passion for the classical, his gods’ behaviour (even though they are alien and monstrous in appearance) is very similar to that of Ancient Greece’s Olympians. Prometheus and Ixion were punished by Zeus for their amatory adventures, Athena punished Ajax for the ‘rape’ of Cassandra and the ‘wrath of heaven’ was visited upon other mortals by the gods.
And with strange aeons even death may die.
In the Lovecraft Cosmos it does not behoove any fool to awaken, annoy or otherwise disturb the gods.
Apart from the undesirable and injudicious arousal of Cthulhu in “The Call of Cthulhu”, Bokrug – the Great Water Lizard god was much displeased when the men of Sarnath slaughtered the inhabitants of Ib who were,
“…in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it....[T]hey had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice.”
– Wikipedia entry “The Doom That Came To Sarnath”
In “The Curse of Yig” Audrey Davis incurs the anger of the snake-god Yig when she kills some of his children – deadly rattlers! Other characters descend into insanity merely through the worship of his terrifying deities.
Unsurprisingly, given Lovecraft’s passion for the classical, his gods’ behaviour (even though they are alien and monstrous in appearance) is very similar to that of Ancient Greece’s Olympians. Prometheus and Ixion were punished by Zeus for their amatory adventures, Athena punished Ajax for the ‘rape’ of Cassandra and the ‘wrath of heaven’ was visited upon other mortals by the gods.
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