History Headscratchers / CthulhuMythos

** Also, keep in mind that Lovecraft did not make up Y'golonac, Ramsey Campbell did in 1969. Lovecraft's original Mythos had an uncaring universe and cosmic entities that didn't give a shit. It was August Derleth who brought in the idea of good gods vs. evil rebel deities plus associating them with various elements and established esoteric doctrine, causing Lovecraft to revolve in his grave.

* If a Yithian swaps minds with a human and then a Migo stuffs that human's brain inside a cylinder before they swap back, whose mind is stuck in the brain in a cylinder? Is the human mind snapped back to their own brain, which is now in a cylinder? Or is the Yithian trapped inside the brain? Or does it depend on the writer?

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

** It's part of the chaotic nature of the shared and ever-expanding mythology. DependingOnTheWriter, the Great Old Ones and such are extremely alien SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, or actual demonic gods with actual supernatural powers. Sometimes they're barely aware of humanity's existence, other times we're critical to their long-term plans. It all depends on which "version" of the Mythos you buy into. Similar things can happen with actual mythology. Are the Greek gods paragons of good values and loving patrons of humanity, or are they flawed characters with as many faults as good points, or are they complete [[JerkassGod jerkasses]] who screw with people ForTheEvulz? Depends on your interpretation. Is Loki of Norse mythology just a trickster archetype who keeps the other Asgardian gods on their toes, or is he the Norse Pantheon's Satan-equivalent, always trying to bring about chaos, death, and destruction just because? For that matter, is Satan actually a force a pure evil, trying to overthrow God and bring about Hell On Earth, or is just an adversary for the righteous to overcome, and become better for facing down and defeating a challenge? If you buy into a version of the Mythos where the Great Old Ones are deeply invested in humanity for whatever reason, [[HeWhoShallNotBeNamed That Y Guy]] makes perfect sense. If you buy into a version where the universe at large barely notices humanity exists, and doesn't give a shit when it does, then yeah, he doesn't fit.

* Why do the cosmic beings in the Mythos take so many weird forms,like Y'golonac:Takes the form of a obese male with no head and mouths on his hands.

** Alternatively, given that the Elder Things are described as whistling a lot, it might be that ''most'' of their language would sound like "tekeli-li" to English speakers. Alternately alternately, it's [[TheNarrativeOfArthurGordonPymOfNantucket an onomatopoeia for a bird call]].

* Why are the people of Arkham so fearful of Innsmouth? Arkham has a considerable amount of Great Old One activity, not to mention Nyarlathotep haunting the place as the Black Man and abducting children for sacrifice, and yet the town that is portrayed as scarier is the one with.... fishpeople? Granted, the people in universe don't know those details, but the people in the area should still realize that Arkham has far darker secrets than Innsmouth.

** Humans are not necessarily driven completely insane by the sightings of those creatures. Dyer holds his own throughout ''AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' despite being chased by a Shoggoth, and though we never actually find out what Danforth saw, it is implied to be something far ''worse'' than anything they'd experienced in the mountains. In ''TheWhispererInDarkness'', Albert Wilmarth is obviously a little freaked out by the end, perhaps even traumatized; but he just escaped from a bunch of aliens who may have been planning to ''remove his brain'', not to mention the whole thing about Akeley's disembodied face and hands. In TheColourOutOfSpace, the colour itself appears to be messing with the family's heads, and in ''The Shadow Out of Time'' Paeslee's mental problems likely have to do with the fact that an alien took over his body (without his consent) only for him to be put back in three years later with almost no memory of what happened in between.

** [[WildMassGuessing My personal guess is that]] [[TheBrute Y'golonac is basically a stooge to]] [[GodOfEvil Nyarlathotep]], [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm if not one of its MANY alternate forms]]. Nyarlathotep is always trying to [[DealWithTheDevil tempt humans into making deals with him]] ([[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder before inevitably screwing them over]], [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose whether or not they accept or reject his offer]]) - Y'golonac is basically a minion/mask dedicated to coaxing out the perverts amongst the other sub-groups of humanity that Nyarlathotep's other forms target.

** If you mean the figure that apparently reconstituted itself from the ashes in front of Dr. Willett on his underground foray, there ''are'' hints. It apparently had a beard if his words on waking up are anything to go by, the letter it left with him was written in Latin using "the pointed Saxon minuscules of the eighth or ninth century A.D.", and if the way it seems to have brought him home and erase all evidence is any indication it must have possessed a fair degree of power, "magical" or otherwise. All that might point towards [[{{Merlin}} one particular]] PublicDomainCharacter...

* So Azathoth is being kept dormant with music that a bunch of unspeakable creatures use to avoid blowing up existence as we know it by waking up. Does that mean that if humans figure out the frecuency (or whatever the music is) we can keep him dormant ourselves? does that mean that we can even send transmissions of movies and such to keep him entertained so he never wakes up and we can study it?

* Y'golonac makes no sense in the Lovecraftian Universe. Yes, I know he's not from Lovecraft himself, but he's apparently a part of the canon. We have creatures like CThulhu that feasts upon the Souls of Man and drives them insane. You have the "Color" from Outer Space that feasts on people's life energy slowly before turning them into pure ash. You have the Fish Men of Innsmouth who pretty much want to live in peace but will kill outsiders if they have to. But Y'golonac? He seeks out closet perverts and offers them a chance to fulfill their desires in exchange for eternal servitude, and then he eventually kills and eats them... He doesn't fit in at all in the Universe.

** Could be simply a case of the ''witch'' still thinking it has power. She's not a random Mythos gribbly with no clue about what the sign even means, after all -- she got her start as a ''human'' woman who presumably only stumbled onto dark cosmic secrets later in her life.