What was the most lovecraftian moment in human history?

What was the most lovecraftian moment in human history?

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Bronze age collapse.

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>a bunch of faceless nobodies technologically connected in a hivemind that worship a frog-faced ancient egyptian god of chaos who, through magic, control the world order

sounds pretty lovecraftian to me

lovecraftian, kafkaesque, gogolian, lynchian....
the list goes on....

The Spanish Conquest of the Americas seen from both perspectives

>Be Spanish
>Devoutly religious
>Pray to the Lord 4 times a day
>Arrive in the Aztec capital
>Ancient city made of stone, with weird carvings of demons and other monstruous creatures
>More than 1 million people live there
>Bigger than any other city you've heard of
>Huge market with people trading pelts of strange animal you've never seen, exotic spices, smells, foods
>Suddently it's sacrifice time
>You see the priests of Xipe Totec, "The Flayed God", walking around the city wearing Human skins of their flayed victims
>You see bloodletting rituals
>You see thousands of women, children and men dragged to the Great Pyramid to have their beating hearts torn out

>Be Aztec
>Comet appears in the sky
>Taken as a bad omen by the priests
>Suddenly new creatures arrive at your shores
>Their skin is translucent, rosy with the color of blood
>Their hair can be brown, red, yellow, colors you've never seen
>Their eyes blue, or green
>They had BEARDS! You've never seen a full beard in your life
>Again you've never seen anything like this
>They arrived in floating fortresses that could travel across the Great Sea
>Brought with them the power of thunder
>In battle they transformed into half-stag centaurs with metal bodies*
>They worshipped a dead bearded man nailed to a wooden cross
>Why this must be the Old Gods of the ancient legends that come to claim what is theirs!
>Invite them to your palace
>Why don't the Gods like our precious feather gifts? They seem only interested in random gold trinkets
>Suddenly they start forbidding sacrifices
>Your people start dying from mysterious diseases (obviously because there are no more sacrifices)
>These are no Gods! They are against the Gods
>Your people revolt and drive them out of Tenochtitlan at the cost of thousands
>The Tlaxcaltecs revolt and ally with the False Gods
>Your people keep dying from disease
>Maybe it is a weapon?
>All is lost

* This is based on actual Aztec accounts.
During early skirmishes with the Spaniards, the Aztecs thought mounted horsemen were a new kind of creature, half-man and half-stag.

Of course, by the end of the war they had wisened up and they were stealing Spanish horses.

damn, this one is pretty good

there were also stories from the Aztecs about a woman heard crying for her baby late at night right before the Spanish arrived.

/tv/.. easy on the shitposts..