The Strange Locations of the Cthulhu Mythos
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👉👉👉there are many interesting and weird locations found all throughout the work of HP Lovecraft and those who followed in his footsteps outside of the dream lands we've not really discussed any of these so today we'll take a look at some of the others the first location on today's list is Arkham a fictional town in Massachusetts the town takes a role of a central hub being mentioned in many of Lovecraft stories as well as many other authors at first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking that Arkham is an ordinary run-of-the-mill town but there's a reason it pops up in so many stories the town is shrouded in mystery from the outside but to those that live there this mystery is full of dark legends and acts of evil that the people have had to endure the disappearance of children became commonplace especially amongst the poorer families with most being used in rituals and blood sacrifice the town's a main point of interest is the Miskatonic library which first appears in the stories the picture in the house and Herbert West to reanimate er the library also housed one of the few copies of the Necronomicon many believe that the inspiration for Arkham came from Salem because of its occult history and weird occurrences Arkham is essentially a central hub for the supernatural what appears to be nothing more than a regular town is far more fishy that meets the eye speaking of fishy towns we can now segue nicely into the seaport town of Innsmouth much like Arkham this small town has a history of strange occurrences the buildings are rundown and decaying many who once called this town home have moved on the town itself was founded in 1643 and before the American Revolution it was known for building ships as the years went by and due to several shipwrecks and the war of 1812 only one fleet remained captained by a bird marsh the head of one of the founding families during his travels Marsh came across a religion practiced by Polynesian Islanders but he would later adapt into the cult known as the esoteric order of Dagon shortly after this the town's fishing industry began to boom out of nowhere almost as if someone or something had given them a supernatural hand the Year 1846 is where things really started to go downhill officially it was said that a plague struck the town which caused death and mass depopulation now we know this was just a cover-up Martian the esoteric order of Dagon had two beings that they worshiped at the center of their religion Father Dagon and mother Hydra eventually they struck a deal to give the town limitless amounts of gold and fish but with such a deal comes a grave sacrifice the deep ones were summoned to Innsmouth and in exchange for riches they would sacrifice the people of the town in their name members of the cult took a series of oaths before joining these were secrecy and loyalty to the cause with the final oath being to marry and sire or bear a child with a deep one this Mixson of species is what created the deformed hybrids which would eventually become deep ones when they came of age making the journey back into the sea to be with their fishy brethren the order suffered their first big blow when the authorities began investigated in the town and arrested a bird and many of his followers
👉👉👉 the Deep Ones then not receiving their sacrifices and offerings retaliated and attacked the town those who remained continued on without Obed and interbreeding between deep one and human continued until the town next came under investigation in 1927 this time after years of research the authorities planted explosives in The Devil's reef just off the coast of Innsmouth and once these were detonated they plan to arrest the remaining members of the order the members of the order however mysteriously disappeared leaving us wonder and if they were killed in the explosion or whether they just made the journey to the seabed Innsmouth is a town ravaged by greed and the shady dealings of those who would do anything for it to thrive and prosper if your interest has been piqued by this rather fishy town or the deep ones the story you have to read is the shadow over Innsmouth the town known as Dunwich also gets a mention today and not just because the dunnage horror is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories but because it's a town with a not so straightforward pronunciation without any context it's fairly reasonable to assume that the town was called Dunwich but Lovecraft was a fairly big Anglophile and there are many towns in his work as well as just in general that were named after towns back in England one of those towns happens to be Dunwich which is located in Suffolk and is actually pronounced dunnage outside of the name Daanish is also located in Massachusetts in an area that is commonly referred to as Lovecraft country it's another run-down and mostly abandoned rural town the residents however are very superstitious not particularly smart and well in bread the only story Lovecraft mentions dunnage in is in the dunnage horror and it's a story I highly recommend you read if you haven't already done so moving away from Massachusetts we have what is known as the nameless city which ironically is its name the city itself is a ruin found in the Arabian Peninsula and
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👉👉👉there are many interesting and weird locations found all throughout the work of HP Lovecraft and those who followed in his footsteps outside of the dream lands we've not really discussed any of these so today we'll take a look at some of the others the first location on today's list is Arkham a fictional town in Massachusetts the town takes a role of a central hub being mentioned in many of Lovecraft stories as well as many other authors at first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking that Arkham is an ordinary run-of-the-mill town but there's a reason it pops up in so many stories the town is shrouded in mystery from the outside but to those that live there this mystery is full of dark legends and acts of evil that the people have had to endure the disappearance of children became commonplace especially amongst the poorer families with most being used in rituals and blood sacrifice the town's a main point of interest is the Miskatonic library which first appears in the stories the picture in the house and Herbert West to reanimate er the library also housed one of the few copies of the Necronomicon many believe that the inspiration for Arkham came from Salem because of its occult history and weird occurrences Arkham is essentially a central hub for the supernatural what appears to be nothing more than a regular town is far more fishy that meets the eye speaking of fishy towns we can now segue nicely into the seaport town of Innsmouth much like Arkham this small town has a history of strange occurrences the buildings are rundown and decaying many who once called this town home have moved on the town itself was founded in 1643 and before the American Revolution it was known for building ships as the years went by and due to several shipwrecks and the war of 1812 only one fleet remained captained by a bird marsh the head of one of the founding families during his travels Marsh came across a religion practiced by Polynesian Islanders but he would later adapt into the cult known as the esoteric order of Dagon shortly after this the town's fishing industry began to boom out of nowhere almost as if someone or something had given them a supernatural hand the Year 1846 is where things really started to go downhill officially it was said that a plague struck the town which caused death and mass depopulation now we know this was just a cover-up Martian the esoteric order of Dagon had two beings that they worshiped at the center of their religion Father Dagon and mother Hydra eventually they struck a deal to give the town limitless amounts of gold and fish but with such a deal comes a grave sacrifice the deep ones were summoned to Innsmouth and in exchange for riches they would sacrifice the people of the town in their name members of the cult took a series of oaths before joining these were secrecy and loyalty to the cause with the final oath being to marry and sire or bear a child with a deep one this Mixson of species is what created the deformed hybrids which would eventually become deep ones when they came of age making the journey back into the sea to be with their fishy brethren the order suffered their first big blow when the authorities began investigated in the town and arrested a bird and many of his followers
👉👉👉 the Deep Ones then not receiving their sacrifices and offerings retaliated and attacked the town those who remained continued on without Obed and interbreeding between deep one and human continued until the town next came under investigation in 1927 this time after years of research the authorities planted explosives in The Devil's reef just off the coast of Innsmouth and once these were detonated they plan to arrest the remaining members of the order the members of the order however mysteriously disappeared leaving us wonder and if they were killed in the explosion or whether they just made the journey to the seabed Innsmouth is a town ravaged by greed and the shady dealings of those who would do anything for it to thrive and prosper if your interest has been piqued by this rather fishy town or the deep ones the story you have to read is the shadow over Innsmouth the town known as Dunwich also gets a mention today and not just because the dunnage horror is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories but because it's a town with a not so straightforward pronunciation without any context it's fairly reasonable to assume that the town was called Dunwich but Lovecraft was a fairly big Anglophile and there are many towns in his work as well as just in general that were named after towns back in England one of those towns happens to be Dunwich which is located in Suffolk and is actually pronounced dunnage outside of the name Daanish is also located in Massachusetts in an area that is commonly referred to as Lovecraft country it's another run-down and mostly abandoned rural town the residents however are very superstitious not particularly smart and well in bread the only story Lovecraft mentions dunnage in is in the dunnage horror and it's a story I highly recommend you read if you haven't already done so moving away from Massachusetts we have what is known as the nameless city which ironically is its name the city itself is a ruin found in the Arabian Peninsula and
Lovecraft does make reference to the Mesopotamian region of child aya which later became Babylon these ruins were once a great city built by a race of reptilians that predated humans the description given is somewhere in between the body of an alligator and a seal the architecture of the city suggests that they were unable to stand on two legs or at least prefer to crawl on all fours low ceilings and rooms that are impossible for humans to stand up in reinforces theory the inhabitants of this city originally lived on the coast but ventured further into the desert as the sea began to recede there are two main parts to this city the portion above ground where we see the ruins is what we label as the manes and then we have the portion below ground which is essentially a series of burial chambers it's believed a few survivors still remain in this underground portion but it's never described in any detail other than being filled with a blinding light the underground tombs and the ancient language found on murals suggests that these small reptilian creatures at least possess what resembled human intelligence we don't really know if they were wiped out by another species or if they just died on the city film the story which shares its name with the city also introduces Abdul al has read the author of the Necronomicon though at this point we don't really know him by name the nameless city was described by Lovecraft as one of his favorite stories so going give that one a read if you want to hear more about lizard people and the origin of the Necronomicon Carcosa is another ancient city this time located on a planet outside of our solar system it's also one of the many additions by authors inspired by Lovecraft in this case Ambrose Bierce and Robert W Chambers it's first appearances in Bierce his short story an inhabitant of Carcosa
👉👉👉this story follows a man who is lost and suffering from some kind of memory loss as he travels through what he describes as forests and deserts he realizes that he is standing in the ruins of ores once the great and famous city of Carcosa leading us to believe that for some reason the city was destroyed Robert W Chambers then makes reference to Carcosa in his story the king in yellow it's a dark and mysterious city where a strange eerie curse lingers despite how small Carcosa is in terms of importance in the mythos it's been referenced several more times over the years it appears as a planet in the game Mass Effect 3 and there's a temple in the show true detective it even appears as the name of a city in Georgia Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire the city can be found on the east coast of Essos within the mountain of Mourne which is known as the city of winged men it's also ruled by a sorcerer who claims to be the 69th year Emperor so even here we get the idea that Carcosa is no ordinary city and once again is shrouded in mystery and magic considering how many Lovecraftian references martin makes in his work it's not a huge stretch to say the Yellow Emperor might be a reference to Robert W Chambers king in yellow another author who made a large contribution to Lovecraft's mythos was Clark Ashton Smith who wrote a series of stories that were classified as the hyperborean cycle which brings us nicely to our next location Hyperborea now some of you may recognize the name and that's because it appears in the work of the ancient Greeks the Hyperborean were a group of giants who lived in the northern region of hyperborea just beyond Thrace in Ashton Smith's work hyperborea is a continent found in the Arctic before the Ice Age turned hyperborea into an icy wasteland it was a warm and tropical place with jungles that were home to the dinosaurs and a species of Yeti known as the voor me the voor me were sadly slain when the first group of settlers migrated from the south and built hyper boria's first capital city Comorian the city was built from granite and marble with enormous walls and towering spires the people of Comorian were forced to flee this city and build a new one from scratch when its destruction was foretold at the hand of the old one Safa guha hyperborea was home to numerous creatures and
👉👉👉deities known as the old ones who would take the form of animals south agora as we mentioned earlier was a giant potbelly toad who lived underground until the continent iced over which is when he fled at lack Necker was a giant spider with a human face it also lived underground or its span an enormous web which connected the awakened realm to the Dreamlands when this web is finished many believed that the world will come to an end as the lines between the two realms have been permanently blur rim shake earth is a giant white worm that travels on an iceberg freezing any ships it comes across in a permanent cold the goddess known as eun day who takes the form of an elk is believed by many to be the wife of Niall r30 there are also many formless deities which are just liquid masses perhaps the most well known inhabitant of Hyperborea is the Wendigo God ethic WA who journeys between this world and many others a hyperborea was a lush and once budding paradise before the ice age created a continent that resembles and nothing more than an icy wasteland so I guess what better way to finish them with the corpse city of early a well at least that's how I pronounce it similar to how Cthulhu is supposed to be pronounced claw Lu earlier' has some rather weird alien pronunciations to it first appears in Lovecraft's most iconic story the call of cthulhu a sunken city deep under the Pacific Ocean where Cthulhu himself lays in his eternal slumber it's described as a hideous crown Citadel made up of large statues strange hieroglyphics and images so disturbing they can't be explained the city appears in one rich one particular which I'm not going to attempt to say but translated it means in his house at early a dead Cthulhu waits dreaming in stories that came later the city was also thought to be the home of cthulhu's daughter Cthulhu where she waits hiding for her father to wake protected by the great star spawn weird alien underwater cities aren't exactly my thing but I can understand the appeal when the horror factor there are numerous planets mention but these are often obscure and not by Lovecraft himself in any real detail the planet that he does mention a few times is yogge earth this planet was known for being home to a dark entity that would rise from its pits to consume anything in its path so not many other species stuck around when they visited as I mentioned at the start of the video the Dreamlands are heavily referenced by Lovecraft in his dream cycle and they do contain some of his most unique and weird locations so I'll leave a link to that in the description as well as an end screen if you'd like to watch that if you have any more interesting locations you'd like to share or you'd just like to tell me which ones were your favorite then let me know in the comments below as always I've been your host mythology and fiction explained
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