Everyone reading please run the following on any of my e-mails...
s/Cthulu/Cthulhu/g
... then continue reading as if I were making sense (I know, it's a huge
stretch of the imagination).
Debating mythology... Interesting concept. Though I guess that's what
EVERY religion has done down through the ages. (Personally, I am going
to get a huge chuckle when I die and find out the Greeks were right.
Zeus probably has a lightning bolt with my name on it.)
Nick Estes wrote:
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> I'm sure it was inevitable at some point, but now we're going to get into
> a mythology debate... (-=
> First, it's spelled Cthulhu (damn all those consonants). (-=
> The next issue is that the amount of trouble the sumerians had putting
> consonants together is fairly irrelevant here since cthulhu isn't from
> their mythology but rather the creation of a pretty messed up author
> towards the beginning of the 20th century. In his writings, he referred
> to a then non-existant book called necronomicon which other authors then
> wrote. It is in one of these versions where a link was made from cthulhu
> to sumerian mythology; however, this link is fictional it doesn't really
> exist in sumerian mythology.
>
> There are some who say that the necronomicon referenced by lovecraft
> actually does exist and predates his writings, but that's a discussion for
> another time since the one that makes the link to sumerian mythology was
> written after.
>
> Of course someone will undoubtably disagree and force me to do more
> research. (-=
>
> --Nick
>
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, John (EBo) David wrote:
>
> > Digital Wokan wrote:
> > >
> > > It's spelled Cthulu. Apparently Sumarians had less trouble putting
> > > consonants together than we did.
> >
> > ;-) Thanks, I'm terrable at spelling. I once even got 10% taken off of
> > a geometry homework for spelling. No lie! The teacher wanted to make a
> > point, and I guess he did -- 20 years later I'm still telling the story
> > ;-) No... the spelling checker is my friend...
> >
> > > "John (EBo) David" wrote:
> > > > Digital Wokan wrote:
> > > > > 7.5!!!!!!!!!!!! You're giving me nightmares.
> > > > > The Democrats would have to put up Jabba the hut! Of course, against
> > > > > the Bush Dynasty, I think I'd vote for Jabba anyway. {And Jabba does
> > > > > have better taste in women than Bill Clinton did.}
> > > > ROFLOL!!! ahem...
> > > > I liked the bumpersticker "When you are tired of voting for the lesser
> > > > of two evils, Vote Kathulu for President!"
> > > > (note: Kathulu(sp?) is an ancient Sumarian god of ultimate evil...)
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