Spike Valance in Wikipedia?
Dark Cradle Wherefrom Kuk and Kauket Oozed Forth
Hour the Octodimensional Gorge of Unpredictable Events Opens Wide
Sorry, fellow Deviants, but I really have to tell you this weird piece of news.
I have to confess that I've been (and I am currently) a Wikipedia contributor, mostly scribbling in scientific pages and Cthulhu Mythos sections too, of course (naturally, I'd say)
I use to scroll down the Table of Great Old Ones where sometimes I find additions from Wikipedia users and I myself often add new entries as I find verified ones in terms of Bibliography and Reliability. Since 2010, I think, I've been adding to the list of Great Old Ones and elsewhere needed several Mythos entities - some also depicted in my artwork - like Dzéwà, Mormo or Swarog from Chaosium and Pegasus Press roleplay games and/or lesser known Lovecraft or other Cthulhu Mythos contributors' stories.
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Certainly I could expect everything in updates but... seeing an original Great Old One of mine listed in the Great Old One Table!?!?
It's Kthaw'keth, which I've loosely related to Ann K. Schwader's "much cooler" Ammutseba and Lovecraft's ravenous Flying Polyps Race. Do you remember?
Scroll down the Table of Great Old Ones (if it's still there) and check.
I'm not displeased to see my art included in the Mythos, on the contrary, but getting to know that it's matching with the mysterious "crocodile-headed beast with three legs and a dorsal row of tentacles" hinted by Lovecraft in "Medusa's Coil" (1939) leaves me bewildered (moreover, do you see where the three legs are in that formless bodymass?). Although there is a link to Egyptian and pre-Egyptian times, Kthaw'keth hasn't anything to do with Lovecraft's (so far) nameless abomination. Perhaps the "Eusuchian" snout and the writhing appendages of Kthaw'keth have led the anonymous contributor to type something not entirely correct.
All I could do is edit the entry and type Comics in place of MC in Reference column, because it's an original entity to be released in the Cthulhu Mythos comics of mine. If anyone is going to definitely remove Kthaw'keth from the table, I won't be (too much) sad.
Moreover many of you have missed the rare privilege chance to ask me not one but two requests... just kidding...
Therefore the one and only contest participant... TAKES ALL THE PRIZES!! Hahaha!!
So the winner is.... *drums rolling*
zkfanart*round of applauses*
He suggested a couple of names per each contest entry: Antchronin'corr'auteranta for the Dragon Mother mentioned by Clark Ashton Smith in "The Isle of Saturn" (1951) and Yancutii-al'potigoth for the "Horror Beneath the Ices of Europa" mentioned in John Ossoway's "Jovian Nightmares" (2009), supplements and scenarios for Call of Cthulhu roleplay game (even the horrors lurking in the European Parliament are as much or even more appalling...).
Contest No.1
I've got to admit that the Dragon Mother concept was a little farfetched, especially because I did recall "The Isle of Saturn" wrong being one for the earliest works of Smith I've found in the net years ago. My bad. Nevertheless I've found again the original poetry I meant to show you off, "The Saturnienne" *hahaha* and that's going to be next contest's theme.
However zkfanart has suggested a tonguetwister worthy being compared to Hziulquoigmnzhah's one: Antchronin'corr'auteranta... gawglantrashdaglrr... hey, I'm lovin' it!...
Eldritch enough.
Contest No.2
The best effort has been made here, since involving both a naming proposal and a description of the hideous thing stirring beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's sixth satellite. Don't forget what Lovecraft himself wrote about Jupiter in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932-1933):
[...]“Some day his descent into the solar system may be told. He saw Kynarth and Yuggoth on the rim, passed close to Neptune and glimpsed the hellish white fungi that spot it, learned an untellable secret from the close-glimpsed mists of Jupiter and saw the horror on one of the satellites, and gazed at the Cyclopean ruins that sprawl over Mars’ ruddy disc.[...]
Well, ZK has done his best to portray that horror adding a (fictional) short novel excerpt too:
[...]First observed in 2148, when the first reconaissance mission was sent to it, the British Space Colonial Society HMSS Golden Hind.... after explore the Jupiterian system in order to claim as much as possible for the Empire, a landing in Europa showed the appearance of a strange entity, which.... was described as ' an armoured eartworm with small bulbous legs full of tentacles and a slightly egg shaped head with six shining.... eyes.... and a medusa like hair or whatever' . The entity was observed in an ice valley next to the pole, and one of the crew members was deeply affected, starting talk about ' the terrible and horrible Old Ones.... which should never be seen again' . hence he wispered several times those words.... ' Yancutii-al´potigoth ' which was used to call this... entity.... and the few photos we had been able to take since then[...]
Oh, Lord, I have to make artwork about this... Maybe as Cthulhu's twin daughters', Nctosa & Nctolhu, slave-like toyboy? Now I see why he's hiding himself beneath Europa's icy rifts...
Just a little nitpicking to make names even more interesting: let's assume the Star-Spawn Servitor of Cthulhu to be called P'tygoth and the R'lyeh-bound subsurface submarine abode of his to be known in pre-human lore as Yian-Xoth or Yianguth and unprecedented peaks of awesomeness are conquered...
However in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (1919) Lovecraft also writes of "insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon of Jupiter" which I suppose to be Callisto rather Thebe but this is just another tale...
So, if zkfanart wants, I'll be glad to fulfil two requests to one of my best friends in DeviantArt. All the other DevWatchers left bite the... Ibn Ghazi dust...
...waiting to be bitten/chewed by the Great Old Ones as they manifest themselves...hehehehe...
Well, dark humour apart, see you next contest and happy Xmas holidays to everyone!
P.S.
I'm aware being in awful delay but I'm going to submit previous requests before Christmas' Eve. I'm owing fan art to following deviants:
*another best friend of mine* My apologies, Princess Sair...
Approximating Christmas – or should I say Yuletide Festival to use a Lovecraftian headword – I’m feeling as generous as Santa Claws (… Santa’s homologue in R’lyeh *lol*… ) and I want this journal entry to launch a twofold Cthulhu Mythos naming contest, in order to blend an “old glory” of Cthulhu Mythos and a “brand-new” entry from recent Lovecraft-related fiction.
This time I’m asking you to help me finding a name for two unnamed Cthulhu Mythos entities and accordingly prize shall be twofold too: winner(s) can ask me not one but two requests. Double the dark lore, double the obscure reward… 
CTHULHU MYTHOS NAMING YULETIDE DOUBLE CONTEST
Rules
1) Deviant watchers or visitors can suggest one name for the Mythos entity to “christen”.
2) One name per deviant can be proposed.
3) Find a strange, eldritch or even an worldly source and have fun searching one then give the name the eeriest sound. If source sounds too obvious a second proposal/attempt may be considered.
4) Unleash the dark fantasy of yours!
Prize
Winner can ask me a free request and I’ll fulfil that. Anyone may take part to either or both of the contests, prize request shall be single or double according to participation to one contest only or both of them and in case of victory, of course.
CONTEST THEME No. 1 – Eldritch Evergreen
“[…]Others there are sleeping. . . . Will they haply waken
Monstrous phantoms, striding down from fell and highland,
Crawling like to rivered lava through the dale-beds
Gods who rose and reigned and died before the Titans,
Lying in topless tombs undomed.[…]”
Clark Ashton Smith, The Isle of Saturn (1951)
Lovecraft’s best (pen) friend Clark Ashton Smith has been one of most prolific and refined contributors to Cthulhu Mythos and Great Old Ones’ theogony with his personal mix and remix of Classical, Celtic, Hindu and Levantine lore. In the poem “The Isle of Saturn” (1951) he mentions a mysterious island and the other gods… . Here is the link to EldritchDark page to read full story.
A Dragon Mother is mentioned in the scene nesting between the boulder of some far flung island but let’s assume this island to be planet Saturn (or one of its countless a moons, it’d be the most viable option) and the Dragon Mother to be not a sheer dragon but metaphor of a Great Old One.
She could well be accounted in the obscure degenerate pantheon of the Other Gods, also inferring some kinship with other former Plutonian/Yuggothian then Saturnian settlers of remote ages like the Toad Idol Tsathoggua and his awkward grumpy uncle Hziulquoigmnzhah. Might she be the Toad God or Saturn God’s sister? Who knows…
Actually I would’ve got a suitable naming idea… but what’s yours ??
CONTEST THEME No.2 – R’lyehan R’newal
In Chaosium roleplay game scenario Jovian Nightmare (2009) by John Ossoway a Star-Spawn servitor of Cthulhu (even more than one) is said to dwell in Europa (Jupiter’s 6th moon), in a lost citadel in the cold oceans beneath the ice crust, along Argiope Linea (perhaps part of sunken R'lyeh with a dimensional portal to Jovian moons). Despite I’m usually creative enough in eldritch names, I don’t know why I can’t really find a fitting name for it: I really need your help. The Star-Spawn are lesser entities similar in appearance to Cthulhu but weaker, thus cephalopod or molluscan abominations. They’re spread in several oceanic basins of Earth but one exiled in Jupiter’s orbit really sounds weird and intriguing.
Beside the R’lyehan name do you also have an idea of its appearance too? I could make the artwork as Creative Commons stuff. I’d suggest you to think of other kinds of soft-bodied creatures besides squids for the portrait the “Horror Under Argiope" (or "Under Telephassa”).
Contests Deadline
Sunday 20. I’ll announce contest winner(s) next Monday or in forthcoming days. 2nd and 3rd ranks might be considered according to naming proposals submitted, which could even be employed or suggested for other Cthulhu Mythos stuff.
That’s all. Dust off your old grimoires, consult dark comets and oracles and reveal the dark names of the Unnameable Ones.
Yours,
By the Green, White and Red Lights of Yuletide
Post scriptum
A concluding remark: for those who don’t know, Santa Claws is a really coined name and in a paleontological context. It’s been the nickname given to extinct arthropod Sanctacaris uncata found in Cambrian dark claystones of Burgess Shales (Canada). Genus name indeed means “Santa’s shrimp” (Santa + karis is Greek word for “shrimp”) because it’s been discovered in December, in Christmas period. Here is an unexpected way St. Nicholas and remote ages of Cthulhu Mythos and Elder Things blend…
Cthulhu MNC - Mid November 2015 RESULTS
I'm glad much more participants have submitted their own proposal to "christen" the unnamed Great Old One described by William Browning Spencer in the short novel of his "Usurped", an insectoid abomination whose real names has "-toth" suffix as in many other Cthulhu Mythos dark fellows (i.e. Azathoth).
CTHULHU MYTHOS CONTEST RESULTS - Ranks - 1st Rank
with her own Yagggan-Kyototh which sounds close enough to this Mythos entity's alien name. Maelstrom51210 is allowed to ask me a request.- 2nd Rank
with his multiple submissions which fit well for other Cthulhu Mythos entities or places. masterofhorr is allowed to ask me a request.- 3rd Rank
for his Temmuthoth which is a bit too much reminiscent of Human culture but cannot be discarded. Rodlox too is allowed to ask me a request.Contest winner may send me a note with their own requests and I'll (be trying to) fulfil them.
That's all. Thank you anyone's been interested to browse Cthlhu Mythos Naming Contest journal entries and stay wired for upcoming new contests.
As announced in previous journal entry here I am again with a new naming contest for anyone fond of or interested to Cthulhu Mythos
Cthulhu Mythos Naming Contest - Mid November 2015
Some plain rules
1) Deviant watchers or visitors can suggest one name for the Mythos entity to “christen”.
2) One name per deviant can be proposed.
3) Find a strange, eldritch or even an worldly source and have fun searching one then give the name the eeriest sound. If source sounds too obvious a second proposal/attempt may be considered.
4) Unleash the dark fantasy of yours!
Prize
Winner can ask me a free request, I’ll fulfil that.
Contest Theme
This time I’m searching a name for an insectoid entity (likely a Great Old One) described in William Browning Spencer’s “Usurped”, a short novel featuring in S.T. Joshi’s “Black Wings” (2011), and I need your help, Deviant (and Devious) friends.
Curiously we actually have a hint of creature name – TOTH – but it has nothing to do either with Egyptian ibis-headed god Thoth or way better known and more stunning Yog-Sothoth. I suspect it's just half or less of its full name:
[…] “Oh, there's something awful and ancient in these mountains. My grandfather knew all about it, said he'd seen it eat a goat by turning the goat inside out and sort of licking it until it was gone. He said it was a god from another world, older than this one. He called it Toth. A lot of people in these parts know about it, but it ain't a popular subject.”
And here is a glimpse of its hideous appearance.
[…] Something was moving at the bottom of the glowing pit, a black, twitching insectile something, and as it writhed it grew larger, more spectacularly alive in a way the eye could not map, appendages appearing and disappearing, and always the creature grew larger an d its fierce intelligence, its outrageous will and alien, implacable desires, rose in Brad’s mind. […]
It resembles another insectoid abomination, Baoht Z’uqqa-Mogg from Call of Cthulhu RPG, somehow and some kind of kinship is not to be discarded. I post this picture as putative sample:
Contest Deadline Friday 27
Flick through your own copies of the Necronomicon, consult your dark oracles, conjure your daemon guides up to unfold the insectile horror’s unspeakable name.
See you next week…