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Published: 2019-02-26 21:00:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 4811; Favourites: 212; Downloads: 18
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The basilisk or Gorgon of Cthulhu Mythos. It's horrifying gaze causes instant mummification of the target. This one was tricky, as the description is very, very generic for Cthulhu Mythos entity. I have figured out that positioning the eyes verticaly will make my representation somewhat unique and memorable."Oozing and surging up out of that yawning trap-door in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an unbelievable behemothic monstrosity that I could not doubt the power of its original to kill with its mere sight. Even now I cannot begin to suggest it with any words at my command. I might call it gigantic—tentacled—proboscidian—octopus-eyed—semi-amorphous—plastic—partly squamous and partly rugose—ugh! But nothing I could say could even adumbrate the loathsome, unholy, non-human, extra-galactic horror and hatefulness and unutterable evil of that forbidden spawn of black chaos and illimitable night. As I write these words the associated mental image causes me to lean back faint and nauseated."
H.P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald , Out Of the Aeons
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Comments: 27
Thanks you are still here !
I feared for a while that you had walked off, and left -nothing.
I do NOT like it when artists quit !
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Why would you think so? My uploads are rather regular and frequent...
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I wasn't able to recall your name at first and the program didn't make any effort to help me. The slightest spelling error...
I had to search out comments to you.
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That's quite interesting. Looks lazy yet mighty. Like it knows its power and enjoys the cool of that.
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He also comes from another planet so he might simply have an anatomy adjusted for different conditions...
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Only by holding the Scroll of T'yog (the genuine one) can one view Ghatanothoa and stay physically normal. I say physically as such will still cause a sanity drain. The quotation in italics you give, renders further descript by me un-necessary.
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Yes, this creates interesting implications for relationships between Great Old Ones. A simple scroll empowered by Shub Niggurath enough to negate such powers!
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The Great Old Ones were united only in their opposition to the Elder Gods. Wind and water were enemies, for examp.
(Hastur vs. Cthulhu). This internecine* rivalry weakened them and in time led them to defeat.
* First time I EVER used this word.
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I always liked your interpretations of the various mythos beings.
And reading the description about him being a very generic mythos entity, it reminds me of a old issue I've always had with the mythos and that is how most gods are either giant slugs, puddles of ooz (bonus points is they are bubbling as well), dark clouds, or big balls of tentacles... I get that they are supposed to be incomprehensible, but surely we can be a little more creative?
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This is indeed the bane of mythos creatures nowadays, repetitive and not creative portrayals!
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Yeah, I was given a homemade Cthulhu plush with plastic eyes positioned like 'I I'
I turned them to be like '- -' and it looked way more sinister.
This massive multi-everything almost slug form reminds me a lot one of my earliest exposures to imaginings of Lovecraftian creatures by Erol Otus
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haa, interesting modification!
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Great looking beast and fantastic detail. Good job!
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I used to be utterly baffled by Lovecraft & co.'s usage of the term "cyclopean architecture," since it seemed to imply that having a single eye somehow changed structural preferences for no apparent reason.
Finding out that it referred to, y'know, size and perhaps some overtones of primitive monstrosity in style did make a lot more sense.... Are you the person who translated that for me a few monstrous ages of DeviantArt ago, or is my aging brain just falling victim to the abysses of time again? Hmmm.
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I'm not sure, maybe. And yeah he used many uncommon, outdated and weird words... which helps builds the charm of his literature. It also creates a rather challenging task for the translators; some of the Polish editions are downright... blasphemous 
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Bah! 1d6 would be lost after glimpsing as much as one of his toeanails XD
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I can believe that. Great work.
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Uncle Fred used to teach at the university in Heidelberg. One day a student opened the specimen jar....
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