A Certain Unscientific Cthulhu Mythology

Author: I will update these two centuries

Why do you go crazy when you see the Outer Gods/Old Ones? In fact, I don't know why such a strange concept was formed. Maybe it is the result of the design of sanity points in TRPG, or some other result of rumors. It is always a popular topic that meeting the Outer Gods/Old Ones causes people to go mad, but a little review of Lovecraft's stories will show that this is not the case. There are at least two specific instances of contact with Other God: in "Dream in the Witch House", Gilman saw Azathoth while traveling through space (Note: Gilman's third dream); in "Through the Gate of Silver Keys", Randolph Carter met Yog-Sothoth after passing through the Ultimate Gate. In addition, the narrator in "The Rat in the Wall" may have seen Nyarlathotep, and the students in "The Night Stalker" have seen the incarnation of Nyarlathotep, but did not survive. If we count the Great Old Ones, then related stories include "Call of Cthulhu" and "Dagon". A little statistics on the crazy people shows that Gilman was still sane after the third dream; Randolph Carter successfully planned to return to Earth after being sent to an alien planet by Yog-Sothoth; Johnson, who escaped from the claws of Cthulhu, was still able to tell what happened clearly; Dagon's encounterer was a little more miserable, but at least he was able to tell the entire story. The only person who was imprisoned in a mental hospital was Delapore in "The Rat in the Wall", and he did experience a brief period of insanity due to hallucinations. If we expand the scope further and include some novels by other writers: then in Chambers's novels, many people have met the "King in Yellow" - unfortunately most of them did not survive, only Castaigne in "The Repairer of Reputations" was imprisoned in the asylum for murder. Clark's story is more or less heroic, and none of the protagonists are insane. So turning the discussion back, if the encounterer went crazy, what is the most likely possibility? First of all, we must distinguish between two situations of being crazy. First, being insane due to strong mental stimulation (such as fear or excitement) - this is not a patent of novels. If you go to a mental hospital, you will know how many people are mentally ill because of this; second, what he insists on is different from our common sense. For example, some people insist that the sun revolves around the earth and that the earth is square and will fall if it goes to the edge. Then we will also say that he is crazy. The best example of the former situation is Danvers in "At the Mountains of Madness", but this is not a patent of the Outer Gods/Old Ones. After experiencing an extremely stressful situation, any strong shock is enough to defeat a person. I think it is more about the second situation. Excessive exposure to any forbidden knowledge in the Luo family mythology-this includes not only the outer gods/old rulers, but also those books and ancient myths-will deepen one's understanding of the truth of the universe. But in turn, to the rest of society, these truths are absurd—so when someone insists on something that the world thinks contradicts common sense and is absurd, then in the eyes of the world, he is a madman. So we often see some similar expressions in Luo's mythology: If I tell all that, they will definitely think I'm crazy.

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