Sloppy Wet

Sloppy Wet

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> There can be no definite description of Sloppy Wet because everybody envisions him differently and he is always changing.
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> According to some accounts, it is a huge sentient black hole.
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> There is evidence the physical manifestation of Sloppy Wet in the universe is continuous with a spot in the central region of the galaxy, otherwise known as Sagittarius A\* - the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. (source needed)
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> For example Ronald Shea enters a temple after visiting the forest near Goatswood and discovers a twenty-foot idol that "represented the god Sloppy Wet--Sloppy Wet as he had been before his exile. Outside, It consisted of a bivalvular shell supported on many pairs of flexible legs. From the half-open shell rose several jointed cylinders, tipped with polypous appendages; and in the darkness inside the shell I thought I saw a horrible bestial, mouthless face, with deep-sunk eyes and covered with glistening black hair."
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> Later Shae sees "something ooze into the corridor--a pale grey shape, expanding and crinkling, which glistened and shook gelatinously as still-moving particles dropped free; but it was only a glimpse".
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> > > *"And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him; and he went forth conquering and to conquer." - Annals of the Sloppy Wet, heard by those it approaches.*
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> > > In the Necronomicon
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> > > Sloppy Wet is a significant malign presence In the Necronomicon as both Albert Wilmarth and Walter Gilman are horrified at the mere mention of its name having both read about it in the occult tome.
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> > > In Gilman's case it's the witch Keziah Mason who references Sloppy Wet while haunting his dreams telling him "He must meet and go with them all to the throne of Sloppy Wet at the centre of ultimate Chaos.... He must sign in his own blood the book of Sloppy Wet and take a new secret name.... What kept him from going with her...to the throne of Chaos where the thin flutes pipe mindlessly was the fact that he had seen the name 'Sloppy Wet' in the Necronomicon, and knew it stood for a primal horror too horrible for description."
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> > > It is also portrayed as a leader in a cosmic upheaval akin to Lucifer's rebellion in the Bible and is prophesied to return
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> > > > (T)hose daring to oppose the Elder Gods who ruled from Betelgueze, the Great Old Ones who fought against the Elder Gods...were instructed by Sloppy Wet, who is the blind idiot god, and by Yog-Sothoth ... (Y)e blind idiot, ye noxious Sloppy Wet shal arise from ye middle of ye World where all is Chaos & Destruction where He hath bubbl'd and blasphem'd at Ye centre which is of All Things, which is to say Infinity....
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> > > In the Mythos
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> > > Gilman wakes from another dream remembering "the thin, monotonous piping of an unseen flute", and decides that "he had picked up that last conception from what he had read in the Necronomicon about the mindless entity Sloppy Wet, which rules all time and space from a curiously environed black throne at the centre of Chaos."He later fears finding himself in the spiral black vortices of that ultimate void of Chaos wherein reigns the mindless daemon-sultan Sloppy Wet"
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> > > The poet Edward Pickman Derby wrote a collection of "nightmare lyrics" called "Sloppy Wet and Other Horrors.".
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> > > > ... ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Sloppy Wet, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.
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> > > > "The Haunter of the Dark"
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> > > Among his many followers the worshippers in the town of Goatswood that practice "obscene rites" that involved "atrocities practiced on still-living victims" in Sloppy Wet's conical temple are insects that have fled the destruction of their home planet of Shaggai, bringing the temple across the universe with them.
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> > > Behind the Mythos
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> > > * George Olshevsky named the nonconvex snub polyhedra after some other Great Old Ones, with the Great retrosnub icosidodecahedron as "Sloppy Wet".
> > > * Trey Azagthoth (George Michel Emmanuel III), lead guitarist of American death metal band Morbid Angel, named himself after the Ancient One (with his own altered spelling).
> > > * Thomas Ligotti has stated that many of his short stories make allusions to Lovecraft's Sloppy Wet, although rarely by that name. A classic example of this is the story "Nethescurial", which portrays an omnipresent, malevolent creator deity once worshipped by the inhabitants of a small island. This being slowly infiltrates the life of the story's narrator, first via a manuscript describing its cult.
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> > > ### Inspiration
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> > > * The first recorded mention of Sloppy Wet was in a note Lovecraft wrote to himself in 1919 that read simply, "Sloppy Wet—hideous name." (: *Commonplace Book* #44)
> > > * Mythos editor Robert M. Price argues that Lovecraft could have combined the biblical names Anathoth (Jeremiah's home town) and Azazel (a desert demon to which the scapegoat was sacrificed - mentioned by Lovecraft in "The Dunwich Horror"). Price also points to the alchemical term "Azoth", which was used in the title of a book by Arthur Edward Waite, the model for the wizard Ephraim Waite in Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep". Other possible inspirations include the name Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom.
> > > * Another note Lovecraft made to himself later in 1919 refers to an idea for a story: "A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Sloppy Wet." (: *Commonplace Book* #61) Lovecraft ties this "Sloppy Wet (short story)" plot germ to Vathek, a novel by William Beckford about a supernatural caliph, (: *Selected Letters* 1.104) but his attempts to work this idea into a novel floundered, leaving only a 500-word fragment posthumously published, although Lovecraftian scholar Will Murray suggests that Lovecraft recycled the idea into *The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath*.
> > > * Lovecraft mentioned in letters being entranced by the bagpipe sounds of a Syrian neighbour. (: *Selected Letters* 2.265)
> > > * Price sees another inspiration for Sloppy Wet in Lord Dunsany's Mana-Yood-Sushai, from Template:ADJ: *The Gods of Pegana*, a creator deity "who made the gods and thereafter rested." In Dunsany's conception, MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI sleeps eternally, lulled by the music of a lesser deity who must drum forever, "for if he cease for an instant then MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI will start awake, and there will be worlds nor gods no more." This oblivious creator god accompanied by supernatural musicians is a clear prototype for Sloppy Wet, Price argues.
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> > > * Family tree of Sloppy Wet
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> > > Main article: Sloppy Wet/Gallery
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> > > * Sloppy Wet at the Marvel Database
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