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Cthulhu é uma entidade cósmica criada pelo escritor norte americano de terror H. P. Lovecraft em 1926. A primeira aparição da entidade foi no conto O Chamado de Cthulhu , publicado na revista Weird Tales em 1928.
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The Call of Cthulhu ("O Chamado de Cthulhu" em português) é um conto de horror do escritor norte-americano H. P. Lovecraft, contando a investigação sobre um ser extraterrestre dos "antigos", que na mitologia lovecraftiana seriam criaturas cósmicas, vindas à Terra antes desta abrigar a vida.
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Cthulhu is fictional cosmic entity created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story "The Call of Cthulhu". First appearing in the February 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, he is depicted as an octopoid Great Old One of enormous power who lies in a death-like slumber in his sunken city of R'lyeh beneath the Pacific Ocean. He is the namesak...
The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by the young artist Henry Anthony Wilcox after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have "yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature [...] A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings." (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu") Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, "represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
Cultists believe that the activities of Cthulhu and his Star-Spawn (referred to as the "Great Old Ones") are closely linked to the configuration of the stars, that when the stars are "right" they can move through space to colonise new worlds, but when the stars are "wrong" they cannot live, although they can't die either, instead entering a sort of suspended animation or stasis, "preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu". (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
In Lovecraft's works, the only description of Cthulhu himself, as opposed to his stone idols, comes from the narrative of Gustaf Johansen, the lone survivor of a group of sailors who stumbled upon a portion of sunken R'lyeh after it briefly emerged from the sea due to cataclysmic tremors in 1925. Johansen's testimony emphasizes the gargantuan size of the creature, which is compared to a walking mountain. The seaman describes Cthulhu as a "gelatinous green immensity", with "flabby claws" and a "squid-head with writhing feelers". Johansen's phrase "a mountain walked or stumbled" gives a sense of the monster's scale. This is corroborated by Wilcox's dreams, which "touched wildly on a gigantic thing 'miles high' which walked or lumbered about". (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
Johansen recounts that two of his companions died of sheer fright as they saw it, while three more "were swept up by the flabby claws" of the monster. As the others tried to escape, a man named Parker "was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn’t have been there", part of the mysterious alien geometry of R'lyeh. William Briden, who managed to reach the ship, lost his sanity as he saw the massive creature swimming after them in pursuit and "kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin". (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
In the stories of August Derleth, Cthulhu's physical appearance is portrayed somewhat differently. Derleth's Cthulhu is far more protoplasmic than most other depictions, a shapeshifting mass with myriads of tentacles sprouting from its body, and a single eye on its face. (AWD: "Something in Wood", "The Black Island")
In the Titus Crow series, by Brian Lumley, it is suggested that the creature encountered by Johansen wasn't actually Cthulhu, but merely one of his Star-Spawn, thus implying that the actual Cthulhu would be even more formidable and difficult to escape from.
It is unknown how large the throng of those who worship the dreaded Cthulhu is, but his cult has many cells around the globe. The cult is noted for chanting its horrid phrase or ritual: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn," which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh dead C'thulhu waits dreaming." (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu") This is often shortened to "Cthulhu fhtagn," which might possibly mean "Cthulhu waits," "Cthulhu dreams," or "Cthulhu waits dreaming." The phrase is often presumed to be in R'lyehian, a language that was brought to Earth by the Star-Spawn of Cthulhu, as stated in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key".
Cthulhu is depicted as having a worldwide cult centred in Arabia, with followers in regions as far-flung as Greenland and Louisiana. (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
There are leaders of the cult "in the mountains of China" who are said to be immortal. Cthulhu is described by some of these cultists as the "great priest" of "the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky." (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
The Cthulhu faith is not monotheistic. Being a devotee of Cthulhu doesn't preclude one from worshiping other (cosmic) deities. Abdul Alhazred, for example, was known to worship both Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth. (HPL: "History of the Necronomicon")
Cthulhu cultists believe that, by the time Cthulhu and his Star-Spawn return, humanity will have become like them: an anarchic society free from all laws and morals, whose members dedicate themselves to "shouting and killing and reveling in joy". They also believe that the Great Old Ones will "teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom". The cult has been known to abduct victims and sacrifice them to their deity, although those who have been imprisoned insisted that their allies, the Black Winged Ones, did the actual killing. About the nature of the Black Winged Ones and their relationship with Cthulhu nothing is known, except that they are not the Star-Spawn of Cthulhu. (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")
In the past, Cthulhu was one of the gods worshiped by the earliest humans in the prehistoric continent of Mu. Michael Hayward's manuscript describes him as "mountain-tall Cthulhu of the Watery Abyss". (CIRCLE: "The Invaders")
Cthulhu is an extraterrestrial being who arrived on Earth at some point in the Palaeozoic Era, along with his Star-Spawn. (HPL: At the Mountains of Madness)
Some sources describe Cthulhu in ways that appear to contradict information given in the most well-known accounts. For example, rather than including Cthulhu among the "Old Ones", a quotation from the Necronomicon says of the Old Ones, "Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can it spy Them only dimly." (HPL: "The Dunwich Horror") However, different Lovecraft stories and characters use the term "Old Ones" in widely different ways. In this particular context, the term refers to Yog-Sothoth's species. This might suggest that Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu are related, but not exactly the same type of being. In the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu is a Great Old One, while Yog-Sothoth is an Outer God.
In At the Mountains of Madness, Human explorers in Antarctica discover an ancient city, the inhabitants of which are crinoid-like creatures, also known as Elder Things, who were at war with Cthulhu and his Star-Spawn. Curiously, in this novella, it is the crinoid-like Elder Things, not their enemies, who are identified as the "Old Ones" or "Great Old Ones" spoken of in the Necronomicon. The discoverers of the Elder Things were able to puzzle out a history from sculptural records:
“ With the upheaval of new land in the South Pacific tremendous events began [...] Another race–a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to the fabulous pre-human spawn of Cthulhu–soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a monstrous war which for a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea [...] Later peace was made, and the new lands were given to the Cthulhu spawn whilst the Old Ones held the sea and the older lands [...] [T]he antarctic remained the centre of the Old Ones' civilisation, and all the discoverable cities built there by the Cthulhu spawn were blotted out. Then suddenly the lands of the Pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of R'lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the Old Ones were once again supreme on the planet. „
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William Dyer, part of the Antarctic expedition, also notes that "the Cthulhu spawn [...] seem to have been composed of matter more widely different from that which we know than was the substance of the Antarctic Old Ones. They were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations impossible for their adversaries, and seem therefore to have originally come from even remoter gulfs of cosmic space [...] The first sources of the other beings can only be guessed at with bated breath." He notes, however, that "the Old Ones might have invented a cosmic framework to account for their occasional defeats." (HPL: At the Mountains of Madness) Other stories have the Elder Things' enemies repeat this cosmic framework. (clarification needed)
Doctor Who
The Doctor first encountered Cthulhu in the novel White Darkness, although the god was only ever referred to as one of the Great Old Ones, and not actually identified by name until the later novel All-Consuming Fire. In the Doctor Who universe, Cthulhu lies dormant in a cave under Haiti. (EXP: White Darkness, All-Consuming Fire)
Ghostbusters
The Ghostbusters fought against "Cathulhu" [sic] in New York City after the god was summoned by a ritual conducted by a group of cultists who stole the dreaded Necronomicon. Fortunately, the heroes manage to destroy the monster's body and banish it back to the sea by causing it to be struck by a lightning bolt, having learned that Cathulhu is vulnerable to electricity. (EXP: "The Collect Call of Cathulhu") In the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, there is an avatar of Cthulhu known as the Chorazin, a psychic manifestation of Cthulhu which is described as vulnerable to electricity, surprisingly similar to what the Ghostbusters fought in the episode.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
In the animated comedy series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, "Cthulu" [sic] resides in an otherworldly dimension and acts as a corporate executive, ruling over a company that employs humans transformed into monstrous creatures. The purpose of the company is to send telephone calls to contact more victims that will be transformed into monsters. (EXP: "Prank Call of Cthulu") In the series, any direct contact with Cthulu is enough to cause madness, although Mandy circumvents this by using a mirror so she wouldn't have to look at it directly.
George Olshevsky named the nonconvex snub polyhedra after some other Great Old Ones, with the great inverted snub icosidodecahedron as "Cthulhu".
is also the name of a genus of microorganisms which live in symbiosis inside the guts of termites, helping them digest their food. Other life forms named after Cthulhu include a species of spider (Pimoa cthulhu) and a species of moth (Speiredonia cthulhui).
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published by the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, this creature has since been featured in numerous popular ...
Os Mitos de Cthulhu (do inglês, Cthulhu Mythos) é o termo usado pelo escritor August Derleth como referência ao panteão de monstros e seres fantásticos que habitam os contos de ficção científica e horror de Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. [2]
