CTHULHU •
Cthulhu is a Great Old One of great power who lies in a death-like slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldritch dealings on our world.
#Lovecraft
Cthulhu is a Great Old One of great power who lies in a death-like slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldritch dealings on our world.
#Lovecraft
“The worship of Odin (Wotan or Wuotan in the High German form) spread from west Scandinavia during the warlike Folk Wandering [editor's note: Völkerwanderung] and Viking era to the Vandals and Langobards, and to the Saxons in Lower Saxony and in England, but it always predominantly appealed to the local princes and their retinue and to the skalds of the princes' courts, to whom the war God was also the God of poetry. Perhaps it is the name which is the unique feature of Odin that reaches back into Indo-European antiquity, for its root is derived from the Indo-European word vat meaning “to be spiritually excited”, and as such it is still preserved in Sanskrit, in Old Iranian and in Latin, where it corresponds to the word vates, meaning a seer or a poet.”
Hans F. K. Günther, The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans (1967)
#Norse
Hans F. K. Günther, The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans (1967)
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Ammit the Devourer:
Ammit also rendered Ammut or Ahemait was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians.
A funerary deity, her titles included "Devourer of the Dead", "Eater of Hearts", and "Great of Death". Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather was often pictured in Ma'at's headdress).
If the heart was judged to be impure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgment was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once Ammit swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called "to die a second time".
Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.
Ammit was not worshipped; instead, she embodied all that the Egyptians feared, threatening to bind them to eternal restlessness if they did not follow the principle of Ma'at.
Ammit also rendered Ammut or Ahemait was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians.
A funerary deity, her titles included "Devourer of the Dead", "Eater of Hearts", and "Great of Death". Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather was often pictured in Ma'at's headdress).
If the heart was judged to be impure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgment was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once Ammit swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called "to die a second time".
Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.
Ammit was not worshipped; instead, she embodied all that the Egyptians feared, threatening to bind them to eternal restlessness if they did not follow the principle of Ma'at.
The Villainy of Nuckelavee
Of the coast of Northern Scotland you'll find Orkney... an archipelago famous for containing some of the oldest neolithic sites in Europe, no trees, gorgeous white sandy beaches, dramatic cliffs, and a lot of wind and rain. It's also home to a bizarre skinless centaur who you definitely don't want to meet.
Orkney doesn't really have a shortage of supernatural critters, but there's little that used to generate as much fear and trepidation as Nukelavee. This beast was evil, and his one pleasure (and one would argue, hobby) was tormenting the islanders.
Some would call him a centaur. Others would claim he was a vile melding of horse and rider. A complete horse (albeit cyclopean) and the upper torse of a man sticking out of its back, almost as if riding it, but an actual body part, with muscles and blood and sinews shared
The human head was far too large, with a wide mouth - almost a snout - and a single bright red eye that glowed in the low light like an ember on a dying fire
#Scottish
Of the coast of Northern Scotland you'll find Orkney... an archipelago famous for containing some of the oldest neolithic sites in Europe, no trees, gorgeous white sandy beaches, dramatic cliffs, and a lot of wind and rain. It's also home to a bizarre skinless centaur who you definitely don't want to meet.
Orkney doesn't really have a shortage of supernatural critters, but there's little that used to generate as much fear and trepidation as Nukelavee. This beast was evil, and his one pleasure (and one would argue, hobby) was tormenting the islanders.
Some would call him a centaur. Others would claim he was a vile melding of horse and rider. A complete horse (albeit cyclopean) and the upper torse of a man sticking out of its back, almost as if riding it, but an actual body part, with muscles and blood and sinews shared
The human head was far too large, with a wide mouth - almost a snout - and a single bright red eye that glowed in the low light like an ember on a dying fire
#Scottish