Mythology & Fiction Explained Have you seen the yellow sign?

descendant of seth what yellow sign

Angel craft in the mythos, the yellow sign is one way Hastur can control the mind of anyone. One way for Hastur to trick people to seeing the Yellow sign is for someone who is under the command of Hastur to say to someone who isn't "Have you seen the yellow sign?"

Mythology & Fiction Explained Its also commonly accepted that Hastur is a patron deity of artists since their minds are the most...unique/twisted...as well as the ones who can better spread the image of his yellow sign

Hey quick question? can you do a explanation on legendary weapons, such as gaë bolg and fragarach (the answerer)?

Robert Sides he has name but you must not say them

Like Egyptian god Ra, his true name is only known to goddess Isls. Every one knows him by different names.

Maybe it's his true name that shouldn't be named so they come up with aliases that people can say. :p

If I recall, saying 'Hastur' three times can summon him or maybe an avatar of him if he's so inclined. That tends to be bad.

Perhaps the Unnamed one has no beginning, therefore was not given one. That means there is no end...

True Detective Season 1 may be the best season of television ever made

@@ryangordon133 I wouldn't argue with that 🤔

True Detective: Season 1 felt like a modern telling of a Cthulu Mythos story. The creeping dread and ritual horror elements felt very Lovecraftian. Brilliant show.

*Hal Jordan has entered the chat*

@@PhazonOmega Hal Jordan sounds way cooler than Jordan Hal 🤔

Black Rose sinestro would like to have a word with you

Didn't read the yellow wall paper I take it?

Have you seen the yellow sign?

Yellow = Fear. Ever read Green Lantern?

Black Rose In blackest day, in brightest night, Beware your fears made into light. Let those who try to stop what's right Burn like my power, Sinestro's might Am I the only one who doesn’t like how the Yellow Lantern Corps is called the “Sinestro Corps?”

Human: **cowers in terror** Hastur: "I shall devour your brain with my talon-tipped tentacles!!" Sheep: "Baa." Hastur: "FOOOFLES!!!"

​@@EbenezerEibenhardtbrain? The thing that destroyed heaven is after brains in your head canon?

@@WhenDevilsDuel One of the avatar's of August Derleth's Hastur is The Feaster From Afar, and yes. It devours brains.

@@EbenezerEibenhardt how juvenile

@@WhenDevilsDuel Lel Devours Brains = Juvenile Likes Plush Toys = Gigachad

gosh he really exist in dreams. Maybe concretized by people

The king in Yellow is not a Lovecraftian monster; he is something much worse ( or better): a lost God for the Forkasen people in a ruined era.

It's not Lovecraft. It's Robert W Chambers.

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Thanks! I'll see about copying this down for research... ...I'm wanting to try and develop subliminal references in a couple original works to numerous deities and entities from various mythologies. I want to give them my own personal twists, while still keeping the references tied in as neatly, yet low-key as possible...and the vast Lovecraftian mythology, although not entirely the works of Lovecraft, is still its own intriguing lore to work with...

You're awesome. Thanks!

can i find all of these in audiobook?

@@gusty7153 I don't know. Since all on the list are short stories, I would try looking for the anthology, The Hastur Cycle.

Alejandro Molina This dude knows his literature.

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- You sir should unmask ! - I wear No Mask... - No Mask ? No Mask !

Walk the bride's path, little priest

Casildah’s song

I agree with your analysis of Cthulu's outlook, though Hastur's I think is probably less about extinction or sloth and more about a proactive reinventing of humanity.

Still need to pick up the rest of that adventure path...

Plot twist: It's just some really good face paint.

Come on guys, I'm not that bad looking.

I saw this exact comment else where

Stranger: "Wow... okay..."

Any other heretical groups to be purged?

Ivan Lee indeed loyal subject of the emperor

Nathan Holstrom lord inquisitor means whatever I do has the God Emperor’s blessing

Actually The King in Yellow is a book from 1895, by Robert Chambers and is considered to be the root of the cosmic horror genre. Lovecraft was really into Chambers' work and used it in his mythos, as did George RR Martin (if you look at the known world map fom ASOIAF you'll se a place called Carcosa in the east).

Lord Inquisitor Ah, the person that got beaten by Henderson, then reincarnated as a woman. =D

He announced one a while ago

Maybe one of the only who could pull out a good Lovecraft movie, also, would love to see he's take on Elric of Melniboné (as seen he make an expy of him in hellboy) o the eternal champions by Michael Moorcock.

He wants to do mountains of madness which would be absolutely amazing!

I’ll be honest: I don’t think he could pull it off. I think he could either make a great Guillermo Del Toro movie using elements from it, or a faithful but not great Lovecraft movie. It could never be a truly Lovecraftian movie while still being good as a film.

@@wellesradio I agree.

same here bro! I'll proclaim my loyalty to u right here n now. i am working noe on contributing to your influence over humanity n history n the collective conscious as well as unconscious. i have written a rough draft of a abstract poetic short story that will hopefully gather more flollowers to your flock, more minds to your superior otherworldly intellect. i hope to mske u proud with this work that i will reveal soon after I've had more time to edit it, enhance, n polish it up. please bless me with your mental presence n inspiration, allow me to channel just s fraction of your essence n i will do it justice. i promise...i csn handle it! praise Hastur! long live the immortal Carcosa where nothing lives! 😉lol

@@glass4breakfast with spelling like that, I'm pretty sure you don't even need to proclaim your loyalty. The typos alone can scare away any eldritch god worth their salt.

@@yankeed.5250 Oh fuck off! I'm using my phone it autocorrects all the type n is easy to make typos on. Find something else to do with your boring life besides point out ppl's typos online dickhead.

@@glass4breakfast I would like to read that poetic short story once you feel like it is done

@@georgekerscher5355 cool i finished the 1st draft but thats all so far. It needs a lil more work. But if u wanna give me your email i could share it with u when it'ss ready.

Yeah, I always prefer seeing the King in Yellow as some sort supernatural natural terrestrial presence rather than a just flat out deity, most of its horror traits I think are from the idea that it is just somewhere in the world right now and noone fortunate enough will ever know

See, you get it. All that Hastur crap and Cthulhu half-brother nonsense was a johnny-come-lately attempt on the part of August Derleth (who deserves recognition for keeping the mythos in the popular consciousness, awful writer though he was) to...um...concretize (is that a word?) the very vagueness that made Chambers' book so effective and so awe-inspiring, in a very misguided mission to systematize and categorize all the scattered, chaotic references and whispers of our beloved mythos. In doing so, he effectively neutered them by forcing it all to make sense. His conception was one of powers and principalities, factions and nation-states on a universal scale, each ruled over by squids and tentacle-monsters that somehow are hedged-in by, and govern their territories according to human concepts of morality and power, with their hideous lore and forbidden knowledge reduced to mere competing religious ideologies. It's all a tremendous bore. So let me be frank: the King in Yellow is not a squid named Hastur. He/It is the pinnacle of Truth and Beauty. The King in Yellow is the peak of perfection, is every thought and emotion fully realized in the absolute. He/it makes an Oedipus of us all. We are programmed to strive for the true and the beautiful, foolishly believing these ideals will complete us and fulfill us. But every effort in this direction is just another step down the twisted path to Carcosa. Quod Me Nutrit, Me Destruit, after all. It's when we arrive, when the Pallid Mask falls and the Tattered Mantle is irrevocably opened that we will know the desolation of purity, the dissolution of the soul and the evisceration of the mind. Powerless to change course, we shall see the towers of the great City rising in the distance. Our souls will echo hideously with internal tempest as we gaze upon the unstirred surface of the Lake of Hali, its very calm starkly mocking us. Its fathomless darkness will sound with impotent execrations, damning reality, existence, consciousness, perspective as the storm of existential dread shatters and scatters every belief, every notion, every comforting mantra mooring us to a reality that is no more. The possible and the impossible will be equally meaningless, as we are bathed in the glow of the great moon and enshrouded in the shadow of the looming towers lying beyond it. Bellowing with laughter and wracked with tears, our minds will splinter and crack to their foundations from within. From without they will be assailed with shreiks and moans. Desperate, futile, agonizing pleas to turn back will rise thunderously from the depths of the unstirred lake. But don't they understand? If a play begins, it must end. Our response will be twofold, yet at once: a shrill cackle and a lowing sob to tumble the dunghills of our cognizance to dust. Finally and firstly, the thin patinas of logic and reason will be as ashes in a hurricane. The lie of sanity will crumble as the very precipice of knowledge is crested, the ultimate and the last fact will be revealed: the 'is' without 'is not,' the Yes without No. "Not upon us, oh King" we will cry in the correctness of our regret. Man's mind was doomed to calculate the dimensions of his reality. But this mind, unsuited for truth, could only see a prison or a protective hedge. His imagination and knowledge brought yearning and dissatisfaction. Our tragic nature drives us to seek the fulcrum of His governance, the glory of His throne. Why has He drawn us hither? Simply put, to fulfill. As we approach His seat, the illusion of our individual agency will make the final circuit from everywhere to nowhere and back again: we will beg for lies, for contradictions, for oblivion, expressing this wish with the grunt of an instant and a pained groan of eternity. Only thus, bound beyond all hope for escape and loosed beyond any sense of recovery, will he recieve us, to deny and to give. He will deny us the Play, for the curtain has fallen on Act II and the audience has left its theater of lies in haste. He will give us what we *want,* what we have found, and what was always ours: the fruit of our highest aspiration, the catalyst of our destruction. We have fallen into the hands of the Living God. But only when we absorb the moral of the story (that human beings are really just a pack of overzealous method actors) and grant ourselves mercy will the book be shut and sealed with the Yellow Sign. The sisters will weep and bury their sorrows in a strange new song, for their City is not the one they knew. The Phantom of Truth will be summoned to return the finished volume to its Chambers. Gathering it in hands that are not hands, he ponders the blank manuscript, wondering how it will begin. Only the King knows for sure. I read horror for a good scare after all. Lovecraft and Chambers deliver the best kind, too. They give you a glimpse at what lies on the other side of fear. I'll stick with them and pass on the calamari.

I like this version better. It makes him look like a cosmic prick,on par with Nyarlathotep,who is known for his track record of being a complete chaotic asshole across space and time.

MelancoliaI Beautiful... just... beautiful. My views on The King in Yellow exactly, worded wonderfully. If you don’t mind, I’m going to save this comment somewhere for future reference, and if I ever mention it, I’ll give you full credit.

@@MelancoliaI holy shit that was awesome!

He is. It startet with Demons Souls "Old Monk".

Wow that's pretty awesome! was there a lot of talk about the cthulhu mythos on set? While the references are direct, and provide another layer to the tone and themes, they are not really crucial to understanding the events of the story. So I'm curious as how important it was to the team on set.

Hey man, everything is just the sum of its parts. True Detective season 1 was a masterpiece and you should be proud.

What "stunts" did you even perform? Was the actor such a pussy, that he couldn't pretend-fight Matthew McConaughey?

@@fleetcenturion you mean "was it not the actors job to do stunts?" And the answer is no, it isn't. You seem to either hate the actor based on the character, or you simply want this man commenting to not have a job performing stunts as a double. Either way, it's your problem; not his or the actors, and you're the only one whining about it.

@@fleetcenturion I have seen the series many times. You obviously don't understand what an actors job is supposed to be or how the roles are decided; the actor has little to nothing to do with that decision. I'm not saying anything regarding how easy or hard the "stunts" were; I am saying that if the director wanted a stunt double, then there's a stunt double. End of story. If you want to criticize that aspect, you criticize the one who made it so; not the one who did his job as he was asked, dumbass.

The Malay Menagerie the point of that is that you shouldn't say any of his names because is somewhat considered worship

The yellow king is not his name even Hastur is not. It is just human's denomination.

"a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to" Title is synonymous with name in this context

@@commiecat5879 in that logic "he who is not to be named" is a name do your point is moot

@DrTheKay or "hold my beer" and "do i look like a joke to you"?

A tale for the ages...

No

Yes

Time is a flat circle.

CeeTee7 and then the other seasons dropped the ball.

2nd season totally underrated. its basically the same story different location different culture etc.

The second season didnt have Rustin Cohle. Thats why it isnt as good lol

@@RobertSlover Nah there was no cult or serial killer in second season no occult stuff just simple police drama.

Very interesting I never picked up on that. It is definitely possible considering bloodborne is a homage to lovecraft

The Greeks stuff .they need to do it Justice in movies .the stuff you've shown us is amazing thank you

The Exploring Series has much more Cthulhu Mythos Videos and they are just as good.

Statement: Read The rats in the walls.

Fun fact: There was an epilogue of that campaign in which Henderson and Hastur were reborn, and the reincarnations happened to be dating. Nyarlathotep gave Hastur, now Holly, her powers back, but she decided that she rather liked her life.

@@MidoriOfTheShuinsen sometimes enemies, sometimes lovers, sometimes friends....still playing games XD

@@MidoriOfTheShuinsen check out "sucker for love" and the markiplier gameplay (its a game of dating elder gods)

Daimon X the king in yellow also is named in Dan Abnett's Pariah.

I'm seeing Warhammer stuff everywhere now. Was there a recent change that caused it to blow up or something?

Nick Ross Nope. The Emperor protects.

theres also a reference to the King In Yellow in the Horus Heresy book The Crimson King

@JacobofhouseTravillski kind of, many Lovecraft tales don't have direct connection to the pantheon, and the Mythos just became a concise mithology after Lovecraft's death

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Yup. It says: "Caution wet floor. "

Yesss

Demonitized sign?

Yellow sign ?

no stop asking....

Whoa!

Was that a mod?

@@nurgle333 yeah its an hp lovecraft mod cultists

No

Yea

I think he’d love it. The character was created in a time of turmoil and the creator of Henderson wrote in languages they did not understand. Classic madness. The way Henderson was used may not matter as much as the way he was created.

Hastur and Cthulhu are not related in any way, unless you accept Derleth's work as canon, which many do not.

Nice