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Grayson Sullivan
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Hunter Thompson
>didn't put the reading in the OP
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Adrian Turner
A good playlist about the gods and other entities of Lovecraft: youtube.com
Jonathan White
Iä! Iä!
Ai fuckhthg'd uph dhath.
Shur-rh'i!
Joshua Cox
This shit is good
John Nelson
Yupp.
The guy just posted a new video about the Dreamlands.
Good stuff.
Benjamin Garcia
Kek, it's surprisingly good.
Thanks user!
Sebastian Price
So let's talk about cults Veeky Forums. What sort of behaviors, rituals and goals would you expect from cults devoted to each of the outer gods?
Of the top of my head:
>Azathoth: nihilists who believe that the universe is pointless due to just being his dream, whereas if he wakes up he can create a new universe with purpose and meaning. They're wrong obviously but it keeps them going.
Hudson Ward
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets put in a surprising amount of effort considering they sing like 90% lovecraft related songs. They got people to translate stuff to middle egyptian for the song about Nyarlathotep and had mathematicians make sure their math was right for The Math Song which is just some extended equation they sing along to.
Carter Cox
Shub-Niggurath is supposed to be the most commonly worshiped outer god, usually worshiped as "a kind of sophisticated Astarte", as Lovecraft put it. In other words, a fertility deity. I'd assume most of her cults would be similar to actual cults dedicated to gods associated with fertility and agriculture. Think druids. While some of the cults dedicated to her might have some grand plan or ideology, the majority of them are probably just a bunch of farmers offering her sacrifices to ensure good harvest and many children. Sacrificing people to her dark young (which are effectively treated as proxies/avatars of the outer god) is often mentioned as part of the cults' rituals.
Yog-Sothot, on the other hand, is primarily associated with knowledge in all forms, particularly forbidden knowledge like magic or mythos lore. His worshipers would likely mostly consist of people wishing to learn magic and other secrets of the universe, although some people might worship him just because he's, well, a capital G God (omniscient, omnipotent, the works). I imagine any rituals associated with the cults would vary a lot, but probably involve complex patterns and higher-dimensional mathematics.