From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: misc...
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:04:52 GMT
Organization: Miskatonic U. Computer Operations & User Services

quennevi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Nyarlathotep) writes:

> i have some questions:

What a coincidence!  I have some answers!

>   - what's the name of the witch in the story with the
>     human-faced rat named Brown Jenkin?

Keziah Mason

>   - what's the name of the "spirit" in that same story,
>     they were suppose to make a deal with him, lord of
>     chaos or something...

Azathoth

>   - what's the order of appearance of the great race, the great
>     ancients, the beings with the star shaped head in antartica,
>     the gigantic cone spaped time-travelling beings, etc on
>     earth according to Lovecraft/Derleth?

1) The Old Ones (the star-headed crinoids) came to Earth and landed in the
Antarctic Ocean "not too long after the matter forming the moon was wrenched
from the neighboring South Pacific" -- "the whole globe was then under water"
-- they built submarine cities and, over eons, as dry land appeared, a few land
cities -- they also created life on Earth, accidentally
  ("At the Mountains of Madness")

2) People of K'n-yan came to Earth from a distant part of space where physical
conditions were much like Earth -- legend says "Tulu" brought them there.  As
soon as Earth's crust was fit to live on, the people of K'n-yan inhabit the
Earth's surface.
  ("The Mound")

3) After the breakup of Pangaea had begun, an octopoid race (spawn of Cthulhu)
"began filtering down from cosmic infinity" and warred with the Old Ones,
driving them back into the sea -- peace was made, with new land in the South
Pacific given to the Cthulhu spawn, and the sea and older lands kept by the Old
Ones
  ("At the Mountains of Madness")

4) The Great Race of Yith, migrating across time and space, inhabit the bodies
of a cone-shaped race native to Earth.
  ("The Shadow Out of Time")

5) Around 600,000,000 BC, the Polypous Race comes to Earth
  ("The Shadow Out of Time")

6) During the Jurassic, the Mi-Go come to Earth and fight the Old Ones, driving
them out of the northern lands -- Old Ones learn they've lost the power of
interstellar flight
  ("At the Mountains of Madness")

7) The crocodilian Ancient Race, apparently natives of Earth, build a nameless
city on a seacoast in what is now Asia Minor.  (I assume they evolved from the
dinosaurs.)  Over the eons, the desert creeps in, forcing them to seek an
underground paradise.
  ("The Nameless City")

>   - i heard about some Cthulhu (pronounces Ktulu?) game, does
>     it exist?

Chaosium's CALL OF CTHULHU role-playing game is available as a series of books
in many game and comic book shops.  They also publish a "board-game for monster
hunters" called THE ARKHAM HORROR.

>   - did you know that H.P. Lovecraft was definitly racist (i read
>     it in two biographies about him....)?

Yes, but he was no more racist than other whites of his time.  The extreme
racist statements he makes in his letters are not carried out in his personal
behavior.  The best-known example is how his anti-Semitism did not keep him
from marrying a Jew for love.  As he grew older, he repudiated many (though not
all) of the racist statements of his youth.


-- 
Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,

Chris Jarocha-Ernst			Rutgers University Computing Services
Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu       BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC