History Headscratchers / CthulhuMythos

*** Which is a pretty big 'if', considering that most game information about the Mythos gods and creatures included in the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' [=RPG=] was made up from whole cloth by its designers in order to fit what names and fuzzy bits of actual information they could extract from the source fiction into familiar tabletop [=RPG=] concepts and the "Basic Role-Playing" Chaosium house system in particular. In fact, a fair number of common "Mythos tropes" of today arguably got their proper ''[[TropeMaker start]]'' only with that game...

** You English speakers are struggling for nothing. Some languages, like Portuguese, actually have the "lh" sound, and for us pronouncing "Cthulhu" would be resonaly easy.
*** That completely misses the point: "Cthulhu" isn't some absolute way to pronounce it, it's just the closest the writer can get to writing down a name that can't be spoken by human vocal apparatus. Being Brazilian doesn't give one the ability to voice alien words.
*** That ''mortal approximation'' he spoke of, you mean? And as for Lovecraft's humor, yes, it is one of his most overlooked literary traits, although it is all over the tale ''Ibid'', though much more so if you know the story's origin. (He wrote it about a Latin-named faux historical figure as a big joke or prank when a student mistook that common abbreviation for what it sounds like, a Roman name.)

* Let's say I write a HeroicFantasy story that happens to include a LawfulGood blacksmith goddess named Valkix, said to have hammered the world into being. Now let's say that several decades later, a completely different writer reads my book, decides they like the sound of the name, and so uses it in a PlanetaryRomance work for their ChaoticNeutral sea god of tsunamis and typhoons, born from the Sky god's first ever toilet-trashing bout of diarrhea. Few people would see any logic in claiming that these two very different gods were the same being just because the NamesTheSame, so why is the general consensus in this fandom that Ambrose Bierce's good-natured god of shepards is the same entity as Lovecraft's and Dereleth's Evil* god of [[OddJobGods nihilism and decadence]]?

It has indeed been heavily implied, if not stated outright, that Earth isn't the only planet with numerous Great Old Ones, and that some planets may even still be ruled by their resident Great Old Ones, but, of course,<<|MostWritersAreHuman|>>.

** Arkham is a normal town with pockets of weirdness. In the case of Innsmouth, the ENTIRE town has been suborned by the deep ones.

** Elder Gods come close. What you propose could be possible but fans don't seem to like the idea of overly benevelont eldritch beings.