A 2006 artist depiction of Cthulhu. First appearance ' (1928) Created by Information Species Title High Priest of the Great Old Ones The Great Dreamer The Sleeper of R'lyeh Family Fishe (child) Dyce (child) Crovil (significant other) (great-great-grandfather) (grandfather) (grandmother) (parent) Cthulhu ( ) is a fictional created by writer and first introduced in the ', published in the American in 1928. Considered a within the of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, the creature has since been featured in numerous popular culture references. Lovecraft depicts Cthulhu as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists. Cthulhu's appearance is described as looking like an, a, and a caricature of human form.
Its name was given to the Lovecraft-inspired universe where it and its fellow entities existed, the. Barlow, Esq., whose sculpture hath given immortality to this trivial design of his obliged obedient servant, H.P. Lovecraft's initial short story, 'The Call of Cthulhu', was published in in 1928 and established the character as a malevolent entity, hibernating within, an underwater city in the. The imprisoned Cthulhu is apparently the source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level, and also the subject of worship by a number of human religions (located several places worldwide, including,,, and the ) and other Lovecraftian monsters (called and ).
The short story asserts the premise that, while currently trapped, Cthulhu will eventually return. His worshippers chant ' Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ' ('In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.' Lovecraft conceived a detailed genealogy for Cthulhu (published as 'Letter 617' in ) and made the character a central figure in corresponding literature.
The short story ' (1928) refers to Cthulhu, while ' (1930) hints that one of his characters knows the creature's origins ('I learned whence Cthulhu first came, and why half the great temporary stars of history had flared forth.' The 1931 refers to the 'star-spawn of Cthulhu', who warred with another race called the before the dawn of man., a correspondent of Lovecraft, used the creature's name to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors: the.
Poster from the. The caption translates as 'Choose the greater evil. Vote Cthulhu.' Cthulhu has appeared as a in several elections, including the and the /. The faux campaigns usually satirize voters who claim to vote for the '. In 2016 the Troll account known as 'The Dark Lord Cthulhu' submitted an official application to be on the Massachusetts Presidential Ballot.
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Science [ ] The Californian spider species, described by Gustavo Hormiga in 1994, and the New Guinea moth species, described by Zilli & Holloway in 2005, are named with reference to Cthulhu. Two microorganisms that assist in the digestion of wood by termites have been named after Cthulhu and Cthulhu's 'daughter' Cthylla: and Cthylla microfasciculumque, respectively. In 2014, science and technology scholar gave a talk entitled 'Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Staying with the Trouble', in which she proposed the term 'Chthulucene' as an alternative for the concept of the era, due to the entangling interconnectedness of all supposedly individual beings.
Haraway has denied any indebtedness to Lovecraft's Cthulhu, claiming that her 'chthulu' is derived from the Greek khthonios, meaning 'of the earth'. However, the Lovecraft character is much closer to her coined term than the Greek root, and her description of its meaning coincides with Lovecraft's idea of the apocalyptic scale of the threat of Cthulhu, with his horrifying tentacles, to collapse civilization into an endless dark horror: 'Chthulucene does not close in on itself; it does not round off; its contact zones are ubiquitous and continuously spin out loopy tendrils.' In 2015, an elongated, dark region along the equator of, initially referred to as 'the Whale', was proposed to be named 'Cthulhu Regio', by the NASA team responsible for the mission. It is now known as '.