“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.” -lovecraft

In one of lovecraft's autobiography, he says that during his childhood, he was absolutely in love with Arabian Nights. Some of the buildings he describes in the Dreamlands also seem to have an arabian architecture. His inspirations are clear. ^^

Wait: Who counted this thing's eyes, mouths, tongues, and legs? Get that man a monument.

Five year-old H. P. Lovecraft's favorite book was One Thousand and One Nights. He had his mother take him to all his local "curio shops" which culminated in him building what he called an "Arabian corner" in his bedroom. When he played as a child he would paint a beard on his face, wear a turban and call himself "Abdul Alhazred". All of that is from his own letters. You'd literally have to be crazy to not think that Islam and Middle Eastern folklore had no influence on his artistic pursuits, but some people seem very eager to die on that hill. That aside, this vid was awesome, thank you!

It's about time someone made a channel about mid east folklore

I need to thank this man for explaining the myths and beliefs behind the Arab/Persian people. We're not all terrorists folks

I love this series. I love the music. I love the subjects.

This makes sense as Lovecraft's writings were VERY heavily influenced by his grandfather's collection of tomes about the Middle East.

As a Sufi and Yemeni decedent, this video was very interesting and enjoyed it very much. Thank you 😊

It has become far to obvious that Lovecraft knew of ancient mythology from the Middle East. Just as Jules Verne studied the science of his day an Mary Shelly knew of the German scientist that tried to a find a way immortality. Question is who inspired those who inspired them?

@Mysterious Middle East - I just wanted to commend you & thank you for creating such an amazing channel. You're excellent story tellers with suberb narrative skills. I personally love learning about the mysterious lore & culture of the Middle East. I give all your vids a thumbs up & wish for your channel to get more widespread exposure & subscribers (in hopes that your team will be able make more videos more frequently). It's deplorable how YT uses its algorithms & censorship. You're channel is way too underrated & the middle east has so much to offer with its deep history & ancient magical nature. I rarely leave comments as I'm typically streaming via Roku but I wanted to express my appreciation & let you know your efforts aren't going unnoticed. Love the graphics/ sound/music. You deserve way more subs. Peace & bliss to everyone on your production team & fellow subscribers.

Hello. This video is essentially in two parts. Part 1 is about the Lovecraftian type monsters that exist within the Abrahamic and Middle Eastern pagan traditions, part 2 at 10:31 is about Sufism and how Lovecraft was influenced by it. However I would suggest watching the whole thing of course, at least for context. Thanks to Saleh for volunteering time in doing and other episode for me. His channel is here kzfaq.info/love/Muf4qstFMaC22dxl-R3CFg? The thumbnail for this episode is by www.behance.net/gallery/29869959/The-King-in-Yellow

You let me see Lovecraft through a different cultural lens which opens another door to understanding. Thank you.

Work has been crazy since February (I'm a paramedic). Been barely able to find time to sleep, let alone watch KZfaq. Finally caught up and still have yet to be disappointed by one of your videos. Love it! Can't wait for the next one

As someone who studied Sufism academically, I thought you were insane when I first saw the name of the video. But your Arabic pronunciations were so good I kept watching.

Makes sense Lovecraft would hold the symbols as meaningful. Madman of his own that he was, he was still a writer, he'd know that symbols are pretty powerful. No magic, but every flag, number, equation, or name is a symbol in a way. Set them to each other and you can move people, break nations, destroy worlds. Bahamut as a nightmare bull is interesting to me given his more popular modern interpretation through the lens of D&D as a Platinum Dragon God of Good aligned dragons. Makes me think there's probably an interesting setting subtext we could use it for in there. Though now I have to brainstorm how it fits with Io and Tiamat. Well, the closer they come to *appearing* to lose their minds. Lovecrafts more knowledgeable characters tend to just start working under rules for deeper truth and are less concerned by limited material views. A chair will matter less to them, save for the placement and correlation to its wider meaning as alerting, distracting, helping, or harming these alien entities that they can't fully comprehend. Will they bathe when they know what watches them? Will they pray if they know what's listening? Will they work if they know its futile? Will they love if they know those emotions might make them a target? Once you remove the human scale a lot of humanity goes with it and makes them look crazy.

Wow... Stumbled upon this channel totally by chance, and it's quickly becoming a favourite. Middle-eastern mysticism has always fascinated me and of course, Lovecraft's stories. Keep up the good work!

This is 5⭐️ work here. Lovecraft’s work is def for entertainment and shouldn’t be taken as seriously as so many do so. Seeing the universe as dark and evil is a twisted view of reality, much in the way how the Christian missionaries in the America’s saw the forests as evil and the native peoples as part of that evil. Much of the understandings of the Vedas, Sufism, and the original Christian doctrines like in the Dead Sea scrolls, where up to 45 books of the Bible were edited or completely taken out in Rome, & also in other religions core philosophies, is being confirmed in quantum physics. It’s revealed amazing realities in the study of the divine matrix or divine consciousness. Gregg Braden’s work is most excellent in explaining what all of these modern scientific discoveries mean in relation to our true reality within our universe. What’s being revealed now is exactly what Nikola Tesla stated, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Thank you for your quality work on this channel. I pass it to as many as I can. Many blessings. 🙏

I love these videos so much. My Dad and I watch them as soon as we can. We are both Christian and one of the things that struck both of us is how respectful you are of the three religions you deal with. It's just very refreshing to get that on the internet, and with folklore and Lovecraft? Well I'm just continually impressed with the videos you put out. That said I'd love to see the videos you say will be patreon only but can't really afford a new monthly bill. Any chance of putting them somewhere where we could rent them one at a time as we are able?

4:59 “In Soviet Russia, rumors of strange creatures discover you!”

"The Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing" is the greatest name ever for a book.

Another author who was a friend of Lovecraft was Frank Belknap Long and he wrote a short story called "The Hounds of Tindalos" and can be found in the anthology "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos", but even though it is considered in Lovecraft's cosmic horror, I find that...to me...it is somewhere in-between Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and the powerful cosmic entities of F Paul Wilson (see my earlier post). The reason is that the short story is able to create in just that one story a different universe. In the story, an occultist takes a drug that pulls him back to an event, a "sin" action that creates two polar opposite forces...Pure and Impure. The Pure forces travel the universe, time and space, through curved dimensions. The Impure (which can be seen in the vague description of the Hounds) can only travel through angular dimensions. In the character's description of what he (by taking the drug to leap him backwards and backwards of space and time to creation, he says, is symbolized in Western religion's Fall, the apple, and the tree. Do, again, it would be interesting to see any correlation as in this video between Long's cosmos and the deeper mystery and iniquity of original sin and the Fall through the lens of "cosmic horror". I highly suggest reading the short story, it is one my favorite short stories.

this is some high quality documentary thanks for all of this 🙏

I just want to state a disclaimer: while most of those myths did actually exist in the middle-east and arabian countries, they were not mentioned in the Islamic religion itself, but actually the Islamic religion told the people to not believe in such myths and believe only in what the Quran and the Prophet says, so if you (as a viewer) really want to know if such things were mentioned in the Quran or Prophetic Hadiths you will need to go back to them and check them out, in case of the Prophetic Hadiths you will need to check the hadiths that are stated as True Prophetic Hadiths, which were unanimously agreed to be true with no lies or manipulation in it. Other than that everyone is free to believe whatever they want to believe.

I love your channel! Arabic culture is very rich but is generally unknown to the rest of the world. So I'm happy to get to know these ancient cultural gems thanks to you, guys :)

The Cthulhu Mythos is a fictionalized, more pessimistic version of the typical esoteric worldview. The esoteric disciplines of various religions and cultures; Sufism, Qabalah, Gnosticism, Tantra, Alchemy, Astrology etc. despite having differing methods, are all built on one principle: That the universe is ruled by primordial forces that are infinitely incomprehensible to the human mind no matter how enlightened it may be, and that humans, through various rituals revolving around symbology, can interact with these forces for their own benefit. Symbology is crucial here because it is believed that images and symbols (collectively called 'Archetypes') are the only way through which these powers can become accessible to human perception, which is why all civilizations from all ages have come up with different names and faces that represent these energies in ways that fit their respective cultures. Distorted versions of all these notions appear all over Lovecraft's stories. For an atheist, old Howard sure seems to have been obsessed with the occult. Besides Middle Eastern folklore, he also read plenty of Helena Blavatsky, who kick-started modern occultism as we know it, and what he learned from her bleeds through his work one way or another (Fun fact: Her system is known as 'Theosophy'. Notice how many times that word makes an appearance in his stories?). In The Dreams In The Witch House, the theories presented by Walter Gilman regarding astral travel and the secrets of the universe concealed in mathematics are modified versions of actual, key beliefs held by philosophers and qabalists for ages. The ''strange designs'' used by Keziah Mason are called sigils in practical magic and the weird visions that Walter has throughout the story are not completely unlike what someone doing something like, say, pathworking on the Tree of Life or working with the Lesser Key of Solomon might experience.

I was hoping you’d start doing content about Clavicules De Salomon and esoteric nature of surrounding civilization. A lot of people still don’t have much idea of how deeply rooted the occult is with history.

I have never heard of Lovecraft but I am Sufi. Sufism is about compassion, love and awakening. Now I will look up Lovecraft.

I am not a Muslim if I wrote correct but I think that something like that creatures exist and the people of fate in all religions protect them from coming to this experience and I think that the E. P. Lovecraft know something about them from old Arabic folklore we really don't know what exist in the earth below as I can't wait to watch now video because I never heard and seen that someone do research like this channel it is my pleasure to see the notification you guys do very good work 👍 sorry people for my bad English because it is not my native language so have a big hello from me to everyone who listen this channel💜 Croatia check in🇭🇷

I knew that HP Lovecraft had certain parallels in the Arabian folklore. Example: the short story, " The nameless city."

Your pronunciation of things gives me hope in the scholarly side of KZfaq. Brava!

This channel is absolutely brilliant. Quite recently I found out that I have Arabic and Hebrew ancestors. So ever since finding that I have middle eastern ancestors. I have been trying to learn about ancient myths and history. I know a little bit about my Hebrew line from the bible. But I want to learn more about my Arabic side. And this channel helps me a lot

many people think that biblical angels are beautiful, pure beings, but in reality, the more powerful they are, the more terrifying they look.

The mythological counterpart of the outer gods would definitely be the primordials. Chaos, tiamat, nyx etc. Terrifying.

I am on acid and I approve of this video!

Three men: Go out to sea Two men: Return, claiming the third was eaten by a sea monster The government: Clearly not a murder; investigate the existence of monsters

I just found your channel today and find it fantastic! I love history and Lovecraft and you put them together in a very understandable way. Bravo!!! Respectfully...

The snake one sounds like the Nordic jormungdr the world serpent

This channel has become one of my favorite channels of all time because of the lore that I was never taught and nobody knows about it’s truly fascinating. Thank you for the insights brilliant stuff!

I just found this channel yesterday and I'm totally addicted!!! Also, and not to take away from how great the videos are, the voices are really nice to!!😊

In Sufis studies you can see types of Jinns, you will enjoy alot but those books are very rare to find out

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Once again many thanks to you for putting this up..I do love your work

Those creatures are symbolic. They represent the unseen forces both within humans (aspects of the psyche/self) and the outside world. They are NOT to be taken literally.

Great episode, great channel. I am a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft's work I can see how many people would like to think Lovecraft's story's are only fiction but consider this. Since they have started the exaraments at CERN's collider (poking holes in time and space to find life on the other side) hasn't the world become a lot more insane, I mean really look at what's going on. I don't think pricing the Vail of reality is a good idea but the people at cern certainly think they know what they are doing, I feel the longer that thing is operational the closer we come to truly finding out if Lovecraft was right, but buy then it would be far to late. 💉🧬🐉👽👹🕳️

Lovecraft is very amusing and frightening, i have his whole bibliography since i was a teenager. He leveredge on our "unawareness"..What a mad genius! I liked your video, more we read and more we grow. I'm not aware of any horror sci-fi author from middle-east, can you suggest me someone worth the reading?

Your channel is better than everything on tv. Which I no longer watch for past 2 yrs

I have been looking into this too. There are some interesting drawings on the actual look of angels in the bible and how they resemble cosmic Lovecraftian monsters. Apparently each time they reveal themself to a human in the bible they start off with "Fear not" because of their obscure image.

Wish I could do partition love to wach your videos they are good work and revival a lot to people who don't know the Islamic culture and how it inspired so many to make stories like love craft etc. Ah nham I'll just in joy your videos on KZfaq like always thank you for the videos.

This is quality content of the highest orders, the easthetics, editing, background music, scripting and the pronnunciation of arabic words and names (of course you would pronnounce them properly, im assuming you are either from the middle east or something similar).

I very rarely subscribe to an unknown channel to a video I haven’t fully watched but 6 minutes in I subscribed

Can't get enough of this channel, keep up this mind bending madness!

One of my favourite KZfaq channels,always deeply fascinating content.

It is good to learn that the references made by Lovecraft were not mere exoticism but rather stemmed from a knowledge of Sufist myths.

Wow. This is the first video from this channel that I've watched, but the production value is leagues beyond 99% of the other channels on KZfaq that specialize in mysterious/supernatural/fringe topics. I'm not academically qualified to speak on the accuracy of the information put forth in the video, but it appears to be well-researched. The narrator is excellent, also. Just a really impressive video all around. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Amazing video man!!!! I love H.P Lovecraft. And I love mid Eastern mythology/history, and u just hit both out of the park!

We being souls/spirits are experiencing a multiple layered illusion, playing the part currently as human avatars, this illusion has many layers and many varieties of avatars, some human avatars might call these other entities monsters or demons or aliens, however everything is one, all are part of the infinite creator.

The Hebrew word for *Heavens* ... is: *°Shamiyim°* ... However... Shamiyim doesn't translate Heavens. The literal translation... is: *°THE WATERS ABOVE°* ... Without wisdom we will misunderstand that translation to. *°Shamiyim°* = *°THE LIFE ABOVE°*

Everything about this channel is so intriguing, so insightful regarding the riches beneath with much more information needing to be unearthed, i find myself wanting to seek out and study all this material presented with every episode. This KZfaq channel should have its own cable channel as well. The quality of work behind their production is amazing, from the introduction, music the art work to the end credits. Keep up the great content, don't change anything.

I just love this channel! Thank you very much for your hard work and sharing this lore. GOD BLESS everyone

I am fearful of the God that made these creatures and I appreciate God holding them back. ...even though, according to Biblical prophecy, that protection won't last forever 🤔

Really enjoyed this video, and as someone who was kind of taking a deep dive into the Lovecraft mythos recently I noticed some things that with a step back from Lovecraft´s personal phobias (and unfortunately quite obvious racial commentary) appear in the mythos as a whole. Even as it was intended as a series of horror, not all the Gods there are exactly evil or constantly destructive. While yes some are, there are also those who can be helpful without the sacrifice of sanity, depending on the relationship- such as Yig, Shub-Niggurah, Yog-Sothoth are the one that I can think out of the top of my head that are the closest to the original stories, however these pop up more and more the closer you get to present, since the Mythos technically has no canon. For me personally the true horror and beauty in these stories is not because of a malicious force in the universe, but like the video mentioned an indifferent one. It is a place that functions without the need for us, some of it might care or even want to hurt us, but most just goes about on their own existence. The closest thing that to embodies this view on his work is the main boi Azathoth. The writhing mass of mouths and tentacles most likely sleeping in the middle of the universe that he created from his dream. But he does not know of his creation on account of being blind and an idiot. And once when he wakes up, we will simply cease to exist, remaining maybe as a fleeting memory as our faint dreams in the morning, and Azathoth will be left alone to wander the vast emptiness by himself. (If I believe correctly Azathoth was inspired by Shiva the destroyer)

Absolutely wonderful episode! Thanks guys

Big Lovecraft fan and this helped me peice a few things together from his real life I've learned and his stories. Thankyou. 👏👍

I love that we can never know for sure, it only takes one finding of a single mythological monster, then science is FORCED to recognize it as real, ONE, one unicorn, one werewolf, one vampire, one djinn, on any of the gargantuan amounts of planets that may host life, the "what if" makes life so much more interesting :)

What a great channel. You made my evening.

Just discovered your channel and I am super excited to watch all the episodes and learn more about the topics!

Love the Shrine of Molag Bal being used for Moloch. I always get excited for references to or from The Elder Scrolls.

You guys are awesome. Mashallah!!!

I'm officially a Patreon member! I have to see what You Tube thinks is too disturbing for my fragile mind.

Our physical body is a cohesive lump of carbon, energy and water. Next to those bizar creatures, demi gods, and ghosts. What a chaotic act? Indeed cosmic horror.

Just want to say thank you for all the work you put into these videos. I absolutely love this channel

Right if Yemen starts burning I’m actually going to freak out

😳Great! Like 2020 hasn't been bad enough!!🤣 I always enjoy your videos!👍❤ Salam

your channel is one of the top channel 👌👌 the subject that people never get tired listening to 👍👍

I remember asking my grandma about the shadow that was following her when i was 5 years old...she smiled and told me he does no harm and will even protect us...i never feared darkness since then for some reason...

I remember hearing that some Lovecraft fans managed to use his writings to pinpoint where Cthulu's sunken city is (somewhere in the Pacific ocean near Chili) and the largest sound ever recorded underwater (the Boop) was heard from the same area. Him awakening would explain all the madness in the world today.

Uplifted the veil/hijab of your eyes. You can “see” the Jann and The Jinn race. Uplifted the veil/hijab of eyes of the heart you can “see” the angels of Allah Almighty.

Thank you brother for making these kind of videos

You know what the Lake Van creatures remind me of? The world serpent of Norse Mythology. It's so large it is the size of the earth. The creatures in Armenian Mythology, are said to get bigger the more they eat. I've always said, that mythology doesn't have to be fiction. Therefore, what if all the warriors, heroes, villains, monsters etc are similar but just placed all over the world and called different things?

1:10 *The SCP foundation would like to know your location*

Plot twist: You actually are all those entities and mythical creatures. You are dreaming yourself through the eyes of your present body~

Awesome!!!! Another exciting episode, everytime I watch one this videos I feel immersed crosing a portal to a diferent world yet to discover,... thank you all behind this production!!!

😱 amazing content as usual... SCARY to think we have so MANY creatures that God holds back right now... Something is coming we aren't ready for !😞 I will hold fast to my Faith, knowing it's coming. Heaven help us be strong !

The deeper you go into the Earth, the closer you get to Tartarus and the Great Deep....

0:16 40 thousand mouths dam going to dinner with this guy must be really expensive.

I’ve only just found this channel and I’m blown away by the production value! Amazing! So informative and well presented!! More!!

Thank you sincerely, I'm very interested in folklore and mythologies, but living in Canada, I've yet to hear or be able to study anything of this sort, your videos are extremely well made and thorough. Thanks.

Guy: make this informative video 2020: write that down,write that down!

Sufism reminds me of Christian Gnostics and Jewish Kabbalah

MME is my favourite channel on you KZfaq. Your content is amazing. I'm so pleased to see how your channel has grown, it's very well deserved. I've been a fan from the start. In fact this was the only channel I could bare watching that had a bot voice. (I'm glad it's gone now though) keep up the good work. 👍

I think this is my favorite channel for many reasons, primarily though, I love the Islamic insights. As a grafted in daughter of the Most High, through the Grace of Almighty G0D our Creator's Mercy and the holy blood of Christ, Yeshua Ha'Moshiach, Jesus my Lord and Propitiation, Isa- Blessed Be His Name. The thread of dread and terror runs through ancient Mesopotamian literature and religious traditions like the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, running down from their headwaters into the Persian Gulf. There's no coincidence that the Book of Job is filled with powerful images, just as ancient Egyptian and every other major world civilization from Sumeria, to China, to the Celts/Gauls/Norse and Mesoamerican Civilizations that were here long before the thoughts of transatlantic travels had re(?)entered the minds of Western European royal houses and their kingdoms. Nothing new under the sun. Solomon proves his observations once more. What I hear in this is a reiteration of the Judgment placed upon the Nephilim 'hybrids', whose paternal progenitors had imbued with advanced knowledge that ultimately got them denied Resurrection within their bodily forms. But their spirits would still exist, since they are half human I suppose, so what if these are the true entities that have still got a major grudge towards the Heavenly Father's Judgment and the humans that have been forgiven? Idk.. but I do know that our Creator's Heart is towards reconciliation and restoration and a world without End. Blessings to you for such an incredibly well done channel. Everything is always outstanding.

man ngl middle eastern folklore is way more intriguing than popular western folklore.

Fascinating stuff!

Great channel! The content is great and the video edit is brilliant. Well done guys! PS: I would like to see you guys do some joint ventures with other channels and authors, it would be interesting for those of us who like to deepen the knowledge and cross references.

Lovecraft could hardly be accused of plagiarism since none of his work was ever copyrighted. All of his creations, including Chtulu, are public domain. They can be used freely by any artist or writer. Maybe that's one of the reasons Lovecraft died a poor man.

Well this some deep shit to find . I have allways loved the love craft book collection of stories in book collections .and be watching Islamic horror movies with English subtitles I wonder what if these creatures could help eliminate the pandemic now . Just thoughts while watching and listening to this tonight

Lovecraftian: Tentacled abominations of everything wrong with the universe Islam; *Sneks*

YAY!! Been waiting for a new video!! Thank you!!

Came for the entertainment value, stayed for the epicly perfect accent