The Elder Things - (Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos)

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The Elder Things - (Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos)

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Today we take another look at the work of HP Lovecraft with a set of alien species known as the elder things.
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@andrewlevin6331 5 жыл бұрын

They mastered space travel They have a grasp on genetic engineering eons beyond humans They went head to head against The Spawn of Cthulhu and the Great Race of Yith (respectively a race ruled by a god and a race that can travel through time like its nothing) But they have trouble with central heating?

@gabrielmatthewcastillo7021 4 жыл бұрын

@CathayanMagus 4 жыл бұрын

I believe I read it somewhere that they have been on Earth for so long that they forgot a lot of their technologies especially on how to space travel so... I guess they forgot how to build structures that have heating? lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@hobogod2692 4 жыл бұрын

@@CathayanMagus Lovecraft used the word "decadent" very frequently during the Mountains of Madness, he strongly implied that the race degenerated over the millions of years of their history, losing much of their technology and even certain biological functions. Though how this would happen when their species is essentially immortal is beyond me.

@jubalcanales4833 4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps similar to the aliens in war of the worlds? So advanced that something stupid kills them? It is funny when you think on it. 😂

@zacharybottoms3968 4 жыл бұрын

lol true kinda dumb but the shaggoths is what really got em

@drebeck2542 5 жыл бұрын

Azazthoth has the weirdest dreams

@turdgrimlin4773 5 жыл бұрын

You ever wonder if it is a wet dream?

@triggeredmcshitmypants2760 5 жыл бұрын

Turd Grimlin well that would explain the fascination with water and tentacles...

@mladen7641 5 жыл бұрын

Azatoth is watching hentai

@flamechicken415 5 жыл бұрын

i beg to differ

@mazingdaddid 4 жыл бұрын

You thought his dreams were weird a year ago....

@kieranmclaughlin264 5 жыл бұрын

*slaps the earth* This bad boy can fit so many goddamn horrors

@lurkingPabs 5 жыл бұрын

*Kills the dinosaurs in the proccess *

@Max_Le_Groom 5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Eric_The_Cleric 5 жыл бұрын

Goddamnit *facepalm*

@johntrains1317 5 жыл бұрын

@granddoppelganger7138 5 жыл бұрын

Did you mean tentacles?

@zombyjano 5 жыл бұрын

I find the Elder Things so oddly adorable, and I don't just mean physically. In At the Mountains of Madness I find their behaviour in a way kind of cute in a morbid manner like how they crudely dissect the dog and person either in an act of revenge for one of their own being dissected, or because they're just curious beings due to them being intelligent so wanting to understand how things function. And also when they just ate a bunch of canned food. In general the whole interaction with humans after they woke up was amusing.

@turdgrimlin4773 5 жыл бұрын

F'ing engineers

@Bergensape 5 жыл бұрын

I really like the fact that they are a animal plant hybrid who can create different forms of life forms. They created the shagoths which can change they're bodies to do different tasks, but then on the pinnacle of they're civilization, they lost knowledge, I didn't get why tbh. Is there any story that talks about that? Or it was just the ice age?

@Bergensape 4 жыл бұрын

@Juggled Lotus ohhh you are right! I don't remember it was on "At the mountains of madness" or another story, do you remember? Also, they had a thing with the flying polyps, right?

@Bergensape 4 жыл бұрын

Never mind, the polyps were fighting the great race

@jonileivo1537 4 жыл бұрын

@@Bergensape I think it was more like "degeneration over time" which was a central theme in many of the Lovecraft's works.

@Shadamachaeon 2 жыл бұрын

In HP Lovecraft 's " Dreams in the Witch House" , it is shown that the Elder Things still currently inhabit other worlds besides Earth.

@jacobjohnston3983 5 жыл бұрын

Elder things are by far my favorite creatures in lovecraft. They’re the most understandable, since they display intelligence and human-like behavior. I feel like they’re the one thing we could actually coexist with, so long as they don’t try to take over humanity.

@jonileivo1537 4 жыл бұрын

Why Elder Things are actually one of the scariest creatures, is that they seem like relatable. They seem they are similar to humankind but assuming that would be a grave error. The mere physiology is so magnificently alien to us that we could not hope to understand why they are what they are, and do what they do. They are ancient beyond belief and posess technology aeons ahead of us, supposed creators of humankind (as well as most fauna), plant-fungi-animal hybrid thing, communication through (what it seems to humans) "singing", senses beyond our comprehension, and lastly the five lobed structure, including their brains, that make their concept of individual and society totally strange. Don't get fooled or you're done.

@travisbickle3835 Жыл бұрын

@@jonileivo1537 and it mentions they can do hypnosyis.

@WhitecollarZombie 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine you wake up on examination table, next to you is another cut open like a fish, maybe even family or a friend. Makes you freak out, maybe even kill these monsters... These hairless apes. Maybe Elder Things aren't that different after all.

@galletaespacial9436 3 жыл бұрын

They weren't though, IIRC in the story they were described as "men from another age, but men anyway"

@galletaespacial9436 3 жыл бұрын

Hairless ape... Based

@WhyYouMadBoi 5 жыл бұрын

But can NordVPN protect me from the horrors that I can not understand?

@jayriddare1605 5 жыл бұрын

thiS 1s sERi0uS

@dumoulin11 5 жыл бұрын

Right?

@thatoneguy_0218 5 жыл бұрын

Ignorance is bliss

@exceedcharge1 5 жыл бұрын

John Hasben No i dont think it would filter out trumps tweets

@turdgrimlin4773 5 жыл бұрын

No, the FBI dose taht for you

@zvonimirtomac7896 5 жыл бұрын

Lovecraft logic: Need something scary? Just give it tentacles.

@Im-Not-a-Dog 5 жыл бұрын

Zvonimir Tomac and make it from space. Space is important. Earth tentacles aren’t scary enough.

@Im-Not-a-Dog 5 жыл бұрын

Kuchi Kopi “Seafood or hentai” you forgot about the “or both” option. Lol

@mj91212 5 жыл бұрын

Makes sense, he had a phobia of the ocean and all things that dwell there in.

@Breakingbad33 5 жыл бұрын

Zvonimir Tomac Also give it a COLOR UNLIKE ANYTHING SEEN ON EARTH! Whatever that looks like.

@jaketheripper7385 5 жыл бұрын

And make it "unspeakable" and "indescribable" or "unfathomable". And describe their nature and aura as "eldritch".

@ErdingerLi 5 жыл бұрын

I believe The Elder Things were an inspiration for the Heptapods in the movie "Arrival"

@CosmicFaust 5 жыл бұрын

H.P. Lovecraft is to Cosmic Horror what Tolkien is to Epic Fantasy.

@toadallyawful 5 жыл бұрын

Lovecraft isn't bad tho

@chaptermastermoloc4171 5 жыл бұрын

@@toadallyawful so is Tolkien

@cristaniancatembung1160 5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Both are compelling writers.

@syspreadbury4512 5 жыл бұрын

I have been a fan of tolkein since I was in third grade and read the Hobbit, I'm just now discovering Lovecraft, and while different, I feel they are similar in the fact of their inspiration and influence ,both of theirs, on modern.......well everything, from books to movies to video games. Epic, both authors.

@baconthulu 5 жыл бұрын

I like Bacon

@gdhdi5339 3 жыл бұрын

My first encounter with the elder things was in the Call of Cthulhu adventure 'beyond the mountains of madness'. Presumably it's very much based on that story. My character was defeated by them, horribly.

@fuzzypizza8251 3 жыл бұрын

Cuthulu can see my deepest fears but can he see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?

@Rhobyn 4 жыл бұрын

I always read Mountains of Madness in a way that all known life on earth evolved from accidental spillage from Shoggoth experimentation, which the Elder Things just didn't care about. Also, sidenote: Giant Penguins are the best lovecraftian monsters prove me wrong.

@Eric_The_Cleric 5 жыл бұрын

I'm running a couple of cosmic horror D&D games and your videos just make it so easy to come up with fun things for my players to handle. Their detail, thoroughness, and your voice have helped me learn so much more about the mythos than what I had thought I would learn. Thanks for all the effort you put in and the research you do to create such good videos! In case it needs to be said again, keep up the good work! :)

@sibren9874 5 жыл бұрын

So I'm taller than an Elder Thing? Nice.

@elricengquist9989 5 жыл бұрын

When ever I hear and read about the Elder things I think of the Elder sign an how it might be related to them in some form. like a ancient cease fire agreement, or even a ward/protection developed by them to protect themselves an their allies from other races or the cosmic horrors. The Elder things might be about the only beings strong enough, and old enough that could develop that without being aligned with the Elder gods.

@Valasilphukiir 3 жыл бұрын

The Elder Sign is also a 5-pointed star, and the Elder things are 5-pointed everything... My mind is dangerously close to being blown.

@kelleyrios5897 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is full of information I've never heard before. Keep it up!

@Werewolf914 5 жыл бұрын

Wait a second tentacles are kind of like noodles, what God has noodles? The Flying Spaghetti Monster, FSM is one of the Old Ones confirmed.

@HaroldoPinheiro-OK 5 жыл бұрын

Ramen Fhtagn! :V

@jameshayes9322 5 жыл бұрын

its almolst like elron hubbard isnt even that creative

@jonathanklinker5192 4 жыл бұрын

@tomkerruish2982 3 жыл бұрын

Are you familiar with flumphs?

@sureshdsouza8767 3 жыл бұрын

Soooo i just realized he doesn't exist bob or something just made him also if he was a thing we could know his life in young or something

@michaelgallegos5752 5 жыл бұрын

As usual, top notch story telling and illustrations. You never disappoint. Have already pre ordered your book and look forward to reading it. It's cool and rainy and I can imagine you sharing these stories beside a roaring fire with a hot drink, your choice. .Sincerely.

@MythologyFictionExplained 5 жыл бұрын

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@asaenvolk 5 жыл бұрын

The Elder Things seamed to be a stand in for the English that came over to America, they were fleeing an increasingly industrialized home, they made a world (nation), were beset on many sides by hostile forces, had slaves (who rebelled). In addition, they had some aspects of a human mind set, with curiosity and even did scientific tests in the stories.

@Qlipphoth 4 жыл бұрын

*Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!* -Some angry Elder Thing after its Shoggoth left some ectoplasmic droppings in the carpet

@elzitcho44 5 жыл бұрын

Yoooo the sacred Jedi texts chilling in the intro there, very nice 😎

@UltimateEnd0 2 жыл бұрын

It's crazy because these aliens looked and seemed perfectly suited for the much more dense atmosphere. It certainly makes all of these creatures much more real.

@Shaberries 5 жыл бұрын

I have been binge watching your videos! Love your voice =)

@crusade3035 5 жыл бұрын

Ikr!

@sanyashabbag7628 5 жыл бұрын

Listen to him while going to sleep 😍 no more restless sleeping ❤️

@lepotato135 5 жыл бұрын

RIGHT!????

@roadsidepeekneek7259 5 жыл бұрын

The elder things show up in the ice level from the game "Eldritch" by MinorKey They're tough and they shoot energy, probably from their advanced weaponry developed in their wars with the star spawn

@Mae_Dastardly Жыл бұрын

They also makw funny blblbl noises

@SWA81 5 жыл бұрын

These videos get me through my day. Thanks for making and posting them!

@yt_Ajay_ 4 жыл бұрын

4:50 I like how you so casually suggest these guys would bother having any plan for humanity

@petra8770 5 жыл бұрын

I just realised I am watching your videos for over an year ! I love them ❤️ amazing as always

@Mitchell4892 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing these! Always so interesting to listen to. You also have a really good voice for radio, totally calming and you pronounce your words very clearly. Thanks again!

@AnimeShinigami13 3 жыл бұрын

i have a theory that the elder things and shoggoths inspired the Precursors and the Flood from Halo. The precursors had a ton of advanced gene manipulation technology, and the flood are fairly amorphous in form because they're carried in the form of invasive cells that can take the form of different cells in your body, replacing them one by one until you're destroyed, similar to how the shoggoths can change form. The Flood also have a form of collective consciousness called Neurophysics, and the Elder Things used hypnosis and telepathy to control the shoggoths, which meant the shoggoths had to be able to receive those telepathic orders and respond in kind.

@CJ_F0x 5 жыл бұрын

Man, I love the way you explain these creatures and myths. Especially the scary ones. Ever considered voice acting or reading for audio books?

@jackiesantos2121 5 жыл бұрын

I like you talk about dimensional shamblers they are the most mysterious creature in Lovecraft

@Ben-hl8it 5 жыл бұрын

I just found your channel and I looked over your videos and I had to subscribe beacause I finally found someone who explains all the myths and fictional stories I like. Thanks for your work. I really appreciate it.

@castorius52 5 жыл бұрын

Azathoth, Yith, and this frickin The Elder Things are amazed me most. love the Cthulhu Mythos 🤙

@yaldabaoth2 5 жыл бұрын

I'm playing RimWorld with elder things and other cthulhu based mods. The Elder Things colony next door really likes to trade with my Vampire cabal, me usually buying human chattel and selling Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath. There's a reason I need so many humans. Iä!

@CS-hu5be 3 жыл бұрын

The one thing that was not addressed were the penguins, they are the integral part of the elder things.

@joshuazane3210 5 жыл бұрын

Haha. Throwing shade on Lovecraft's pickup game... Probably accurate, but still hilarious. 😆

@josephgiacobine1069 5 жыл бұрын

I question it; but I've been told with a straight face that: Lovecraft thought he was writting sexually charged RomComs.

@turdgrimlin4773 5 жыл бұрын

I feel H.P.'s pain!

@onefeather2 4 жыл бұрын

Love these videos of folklore and the history of it. You have a great voice for reading, thank you for posting these.🙂❤❤ Listening to all as the corona virus is giving me time to read and listen, love history. Always light in a dark tunnel.

@isyldy09 5 жыл бұрын

Favorite Lovecraftian being. From my favorite Lovecraft story.

@Rex_W 5 жыл бұрын

I do love the idea of cosmic horror. Hyper intelligent beings with motives we can't understand. That would literally break our brains. One can see several inspirations through video games especially nowadays. From The SoulsBourne universe, to even Warframe. I'd like to see more adaptations in film though

@MrDrake-ps2yi 2 жыл бұрын

I listened to Mountians Of Madness while at work and those descriptions made my brain go wild.

@ryankwon8785 8 ай бұрын

In the story, All Tomorrows, the descendants of humanity gradually evolved into a species similar to Elder Things due to alien experimentation.

@madmachanicest9955 5 жыл бұрын

I think the elder things are the most realiest design for a Alain life form any one has ever come up with.

@26th_Primarch 5 жыл бұрын

Their design inspired a pair of aliens for Star Trek The Animated Series. One was even a crew member of the Enterprise.

@godwantsplastic 5 жыл бұрын

I see a connection between microbial life and his aliens...

@29gopikrishnap2 5 жыл бұрын

I came across lovecrofts work here for the first time, and truth be said I find it really strange that a person could fathom and brew up such stories years on ......what gave him the motivation and inspiration.......weird , more than the fact that I wanna know about the creatures , I wanna understand this crazy dude and how he sat and wrote all this

@yakshakingu 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty slick throwing the ad at the end 🤣🤣

@berserker_bo 5 жыл бұрын

The Mi-go knocked them down a peg before humans developed, you should cover them somehow. Nice video!

@georgeawwad7878 5 жыл бұрын

Love your vids man

@curtcoeurdelion 3 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: the Bible of the Elder Things is called Elder Scroll.

@triplesevensix291 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. All the best for 2020. Nice one M & F E. Subbed. ;)

@heidibevan1916 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! That is all that needs to be sed! Just truly awesome! 👍😎 I have heard of the Cthulhu mythos bt not in depth knowledge of it, my b/friend on the other hand know's alot about it 😕

@alexanderimmortal4354 5 жыл бұрын

More bedtime stories ❤️

@FirCorred 5 жыл бұрын

+Mythology & Fiction Explained - hi! Your voice is pleasant, but could you please consider slowing down a bit? Your presentation would gain greatly! thank you

@anitacigarette 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, & love the artwork you use in it. HP is one of my favs.

@crystallight2 5 жыл бұрын

New video! I love this channel.

@Itchy__ 3 жыл бұрын

I shouldn't be watching this 4 o clock in the morning right before I'm going to sleep

@avielp Жыл бұрын

I love this. I wish there were movies...

@genghisdon1 5 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I know of them, having read all of Lovecraft as a teen in the 1980's, and playing pen & paper RPGs since then as well.

@phoenixking2406 5 жыл бұрын

How to create a lovecraft creature 101: just add wings, a bunch of eye balls and large amounts of tentacles

@johno1544 4 ай бұрын

I so want a big budget At the Mountains of Madness movie.

@randomsimpson 2 жыл бұрын

Bonus fact: They love penguins

@crusade3035 5 жыл бұрын

Not first but im still excited to watch your video as always also i subbed like 3 weeks ago! :D.

@lvciferus Жыл бұрын

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@Im-Not-a-Dog 5 жыл бұрын

They’re like giant cnidarians. In the lovecraft mythos, is it possible that starfish and anemone evolved from these?

@vampyruslupus9950 5 жыл бұрын

possible but unlikely. The tekeli-li arrived on Pangea before life evolved and disappeared almost as soon as the Ice Age hit, and starfish have been found as early as the ordivician period. The timeline just doesnt add up. Now if some environmental factors had prevented some spores from fully developing, causing them to be stuck and a starfish-like larval stage, then i suppose the theory could hold water. but again, very unlikely

@Im-Not-a-Dog 5 жыл бұрын

Vampyrus Lupus Thank you for the answer. I don’t exactly know what the timeline is for the Lovecraftian stuff so that really helped.

@vampyruslupus9950 5 жыл бұрын

@@Im-Not-a-Dog no problem bro. im always interested in discussing Lovecraftian theories

@viking3137 3 жыл бұрын

them aliens be like brrrrr cold ah brrrrr

@tobypack6328 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite Elder Thing, is my drunk dad at 3 AM smashing on a block of cheese!

@dennisschmelter8862 4 жыл бұрын

Listening to your transition to the Nord VPN add, I am really, really glad you weren't sponsored by BlueChew.

@andrewbrummett3371 5 жыл бұрын

I find your videos really relaxing...that's not weird right? But I find your videos facisnating and pretty good at educating me keep up the good work!

@bleach3413 5 жыл бұрын

Respect your Elder things 😂. Sorry my jokes are getting OLD.

@crusade3035 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@theoutsider1140 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve actually seen a t-shirt in the internet that says ‘Respect your elders’ and shows an illustration of an Elder Thing ! 😂👍🏻

@genghisdon1 5 жыл бұрын

classic, not old

@HaroldoPinheiro-OK 5 жыл бұрын

That joke is an Old One! :V

@turdgrimlin4773 5 жыл бұрын

You are a father, are you not?

@ludmarbarbosa454 5 жыл бұрын

I don't read much but these videos have inspired me and I would love to know where to start

@ChurchofCthulhu 4 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@Snapshot_the_Mad_Hatter 5 жыл бұрын

0:15 why is there a book about the Jedi order?

@LoboPal 5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it make more sense that they genetically engineered themselves, since they have technology, but don't actually need it? The majority of tech advancements are to satisfy needs, so it makes sense to me that they'd be more of leftovers, like the telegraph.

@MCNarret 5 жыл бұрын

What shall we call this eldritch being? An elder... thing?

@damiencowl9777 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the coupon code! As soon as my job opens back up I'll get Nord VPN. Right now I'm barely scraping by.

@shatnersufolanded7785 Жыл бұрын

They are coming up through the ice as we speak all aound Mount Erebus and Mount Terror.

@johntrains1317 5 жыл бұрын

Elder things are more intelligent than humanity. Leaves stone carvings to pass on knowledge

@mslightbulb 4 жыл бұрын

Johnathan. Aviles they are more durable than paper or paintings if they are in the right place. Can last for centuries or even millennia.

@justzephan2267 5 жыл бұрын

great videos

@SoulierKaiser 5 жыл бұрын

Why Lovercraft has the full of tentacles and terrifing eye balls? 😶 I think to draw Eldel is good with winged leaf dragon and the body of a plant AND ❤ eat man and take care of plants. What you think about my Elder version?

@mysouptoocold1656 5 жыл бұрын

Possibly cause of his fear of the ocean helped sculpted the idea of these mythos. Maybe from the ideas of squids and what's below sea level inspired the look

@takirosh 5 жыл бұрын

Did not the Elder Things create most life on Earth, like the Dinosaurs or even early Humans?

@cacosyoutubelink 5 жыл бұрын

HP Lovecraft if only he was alive today in memory of HP Lovecraft rip I cri and s should you

@skypausebgp2615 5 жыл бұрын

Looks kind of like orgalorg from adventure time...

@meijimarts111 2 жыл бұрын

What many of us don't realize is that the Elder Things are also experiencing their own brand of horror. Remember that they've been in Earth for so long that the following generations forgot how replicate and repair their technologies. The Elder Things is a race that is slowly degenerating