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Mysterious figure residing in a prehistoric monastery in Leng. While people speculate a lot over the identity of this mysterious hierophant, I never got the reason why - as the book is rather clear what is he. Repeated and strong allusions to Moonbeasts, regarding both their look and behavior are made during the meeting with the Priest. Lovecraft - Moon BeastThe last upload of 2018. Happy New Year to all of you.
...and there... sat a lumpish figure robed in yellow silk with red and having a yellow silken mask over its face. To this being the slant-eyed man made certain signs with his hands, and the lurker in the dark replied by raising a disgustingly carven flute of ivory in silk covered paws and blowing certain loathsome sounds from beneath its flowing silken mask
H.P. Lovecraft, Dream Quest of Unkown Kadath
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As much as I want him to be Hastur, I agree with you that yeeeeeah he's a moonbeast. When I first read Dream-Quest, I got that right away - but I'd never heard of Hastur at that point. I only got confused later after reading theories online.
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Hastur originally appeared as a benevolent god of shepherds in Ambrose Bierce's story. He then had his name, along with several others invented by Bierce, such as Hali, Carcosa, used by Chambers in his horror stories. H.P. Lovecraft has mentioned those names, along with many other allusions he made in Whisperer in the Dark. It wasn never specified that he is a Great Old One, it wasn't even said that "Hastur" is a person/creature/entity at all "Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum" as far as the text goes, it could likely be a name of a location. Then Derleth came, having no clue at all, and decided to make Hastur another octopus monster =.=
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I've read the Bierce stories and The King in Yellow by now... love them! In some of Chambers' stories, Hastur is a place, right? I remember there was also a character named Hastur in one of them too, but he was just a human servant. Maybe in "The Demoiselle d'Ys"?
I guess it's Chambers' King in Yellow that I'm really fascinated with, and I wish Chambers had written more along the lines of "The Reparer of Reputations" so we'd know more about his world. (Or, you know, the whole "King in Yellow" play. But then we'd all be insane 
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I think it is better that way... You know. it would be just another oldschool horror story... Now we can speculate forever... ;D
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he is Probably Ht%R the king Yellow or at least one of his many forms.
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Nah. Hastur was only introduced as Great Old One by that bastard Derleth. Besides story clearly alludes to scene with Moonbeasts when Carter meets him.
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No problem
idunno why but this guy (and leng in general) is my favorite thing from dreamquest
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Yeah, I also enjoyed the stuff from the point Carter goes to the North best.
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Tbh dream quest is my favorite lovecraft story
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I class it as ProtoMythos (tales whose elements were later incorporated into his later tales), as opposed to PreMythos (writers before HPL such as Poe, Bierce, Machan...) elements of whose tales were incorporated into HPL's lore,
Dream-Quest, like Charles Dexter Ward ,was not published by HPL, but were found among his papers after his demise.
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Yeah. If I recall correctly, wasn’t it part of his dream circle
From what I’ve heard, I think he didn’t intend to publish it in the first place, it was more or less writing practice
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It is one of my favorites as well.
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It reminds me the movie Horror Express, about a prehistoric mummy found in China, that mummy was a creature that came from outer space more than 2 million years ago.
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Oh yea, it also had Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Rasputin
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Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's right
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Wow, I never thaught it could have been a simple Moon Beast ! To me it was Hastur's King in Yellow form
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I don't think that guy was even a thing until Derleth started screwing around with the mythos xD while the Priest's form clearly could have been inspired by Chambers' work which Lovecraft did enjoy there weren't such connections in the good, original stuff
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