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Cthulhu Mythos deities
(詳細はH.P. Lovecraft created a number of fictional deities throughout the course of his literary career, including the "Great Old Ones" and the "Outer Gods", with sporadic references to other miscellaneous deities (e.g. Nodens). The ''Elder Gods'' are a later creation of writers such as August Derleth, credited with formalizing the ''Cthulhu Mythos''.〔Robert Bloch, "Heritage of Horror", p. 8.〕〔Robert M. Price, "H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos", Crypt of Cthulhu #35, p. 5.〕
==Great Old Ones==
An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the "Great Old Ones": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a deathlike sleep.〔Daniel Harms, "A Brief History of the Cthulhu Mythos", p. viii.〕
Lovecraft named several of these deities, including Azathoth, Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa,
Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep and Yig. With a few exceptions, Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa, et al., this loose pantheon apparently exists 'outside' of normal space-time. Though worshipped by deranged human (and inhuman) cults, these beings are generally imprisoned or restricted in their ability to interact with most people (beneath the sea, inside the Earth, in other dimensions, and so on), at least until the hapless protagonist is unwittingly exposed to them. Lovecraft visited this premise in many of his stories, notably his 1928 short story, ''The Call of Cthulhu'', with reference to the eponymous creature. However, it was Derleth who applied the notion to all of the Great Old Ones.
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