Hagarg Ryonis (HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, 'Wizards of Hyperborea').

Zo-Kalar ('The Doom That Came to Sarnath' 'Wizards of Hyperborea').

Tamash ('The Doom That Came to Sarnath ' HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, 'Wizards of Hyperborea').

Oukranos ( The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath).

Nath-Horthath ('Celephaïs', The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath HP Lovecraft's Dreamlands, 'Kadath/The Vision and the Journey').

Lovecraft's Dreamlands, John Fultz's 'Wizards of Hyperborea')

Lobon ('The Doom That Came to Sarnath' H.P.

The Great Ones are the 'weak gods of earth' that reign in the Dreamlands. Main article: List of Great Old Ones Great Ones

The majority of these have physical forms that the human mind is incapable of processing simply viewing them renders the viewer incurably insane. However, it was Derleth who applied the notion to all of the Great Old Ones. Lovecraft visited this premise in many of his stories, notably his 1928 short story, ' The Call of Cthulhu', with reference to the eponymous creature. Although 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. With a few exceptions, Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa, et al., this loose pantheon apparently exists outside of normal space-time. Lovecraft named several of these deities, including Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa, and Yig. For other uses, see Old Ones (disambiguation).Īn ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of humanity in the face of the cosmic horrors that 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.

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