Well doesn't the well published Phil Hines advocate a literal reading of
Lovecraft's mythology as part of his ritual practice? Rather ironic too
given Lovecraft's almost frantic atheism.
David
kaligrafr wrote:
> Aloha,
>
> Daniel Harms wrote:
>>
>> As for the Lovecraft connection – his friend Long created an
>> explicitly Ganesh-like being, Chaugnar Faugn, for his “The Horror in
>> the Hills,” which Lovecraft incorporated into his “The Horror in the
>> Museum.”
>>
> The catch with this and many other literary influences on occulture
> seems to show up when the literary creation (of recent and known
> origins) is asserted to precede and give rise to the historical cultural
> expression (often of somewhat known origins). Literary suspension
> of disbelief carried over into occulture.
>
> I think it's a kind of slash fan quasi-history.
>
> Yes, Chaugnar Faughn appears in Frank Belknap Longs' story and
> has been included in the Cthulhu Mythos pantheon. But no, I don't
> think that the Hindu deity Ganesha derives historically from an
> entity such as the one described in Long's story.
>
> Thanks to the popularity of Lovecraft and the other Cthulhu Mythos
> authors, references to the Cthulhu Mythos by occult writers and
> movements, games, movies, the internet, and widespread love of
> creepiness, this inversion of the Cthulhu Mythos fictional story
> universe for history as we know it happens a lot. Occult trads and
> movements adopt the fictional reality and drop the history.
>
> Much as I enjoy Lovecraft, I feel obliged to make this point.
>
> Musing Alumni Of Miskatonic University Wandering In the Arkham Asylum!
> Rose,
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> Pitch
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