Cthulhu: Great Old One - Mind Flayer - Lord of the Earth

Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Cthulhu: a behemoth monster from far-flung space, a creature that has lived on earth for millions of years, a sight so overwhelming and incomprehensible to the human mind that one looks shatters sanity and binds the shards with madness.We're going to start off by taking a look at Cthulhu's family tree, something that Lovecraft delineated in one of his letters. Following that, we're going to look at some supplemental info given by Cthulhu's entry in The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, and finally we're going to spend most of the video going through what can be gleaned from 'The Call of Cthulhu', the story written by Lovecraft in which Cthulhu, the eponymous monster, most prominently features. Let's get into it.As we can see from the photo, the genealogy begins with Azathoth, and after him is the Nameless Mist, Darkness, Yog-sothoth, and Shub-Niggurath. These five entities are all Outer Gods, and though we're going to gloss over them right now, if people are interested in more Cthulhu Mythos content in the future, we'll definitely make more videos covering them. Little is known of Nug and Yeb, the spawn of Yog-sothoth and Shub-Niggurath, but they seem to be far less powerful than their forebears, a fact made plain by them not being counted among the outer gods. Similarly, Cthulhu, born to Nug, is also not classified as an Outer God; as we'll see, he's one of the Great Old Ones, an incredibly powerful category of being in Lovecraftian Lore, but still certainly outclassed by Outer God entities, which are monstrous cosmic forces that transcend time and space.Here's a passage from 'The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia' that explains how Cthulhu travelled to earth and on what his time there was like before the emergence of Humanity:See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices