Why is Cthulhu all that?

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@Johnny_Q

When his time truly comes, nukes will only make him mad.

Could be something worse than nukes. Could be lite-pop music.

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What’s your state’s nickname?

[bobot]

The Great Cthulhu gets a belly rub:

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@Half_Man_Half_Wit

I think we probably owe that to August Derleth, who essentially recast Lovecraft’s mostly scattered and disjointed mythical figures and deities into something approaching a more conventional pantheon, which he christened the ‘Cthulhu mythos’. Why, I don’t know—maybe he just liked the name.

TVTropes sez:

The actual term “Cthulhu Mythos” (depending on how you define it) post-dates Lovecraft’s death, at which time H. P. Lovecraft’s work got seized and expanded on by August Derleth. Lovecraft himself called his budding mythology “the Yog-Sothothery”, because Yog-Sothoth features or is mentioned in many more stories than Cthulhu.