The Temple of Dagon

We all know Lovecraft wrote about an uncaring universe in which humanity and human ethics are vastly unimportant, in fact earth is just a pebble in a the ocean. But! isn't it a contradiction of sorts that all his stuff happens on earth? Why would the Great Old Ones come to earth of all places? Surely there are better places to colonize. In fact earth seems to attract quite a number of superior species for such a back water area.

Of course he wrote about this all on earth because we are, in fact, on earth, but still.

I don't know... in every habited planet another HPL exists then.

There obviously must be some important quality about earth, that quality just isn't the existance of man or any of the other inhabitants.

we have lots of liquid water, and a nifty electromagnetic field. also, it's fun to whirl around on a crooked axis.

and earth is where the water bears are, so there must be something to it

But! isn't it a contradiction of sorts that all his stuff happens on earth? Why would the Great Old Ones come to earth of all places?

I don't think Lovecraft intended Earth to be some kind of migration destination for all Mythos monsters. If you seperate Lovecraft's work from that of all subsequent Mythos authors, what you get, basically, are a few Great Old Ones, outer gods and some remnants of lesser races. Their numbers are such that mankind will rarely stumble upon them, and when that happens, the creatures can (for the most part) be destroyed, banished, or trapped. The horror lies in the knowledge that if they return in greater strength, we--as a race--will be screwed.

Now, if you factor in every creature added to the Mythos pantheon/bestiary by post-Lovecraft authors, things get ridiculous. All of a sudden Earth does come across as a Mythos Mecca, where every wheelbarrow, loose sock, and koi pond hides some eldritch horror. The result is that Lovecraft's special brand of cosmic doom takes a direct kung fu chop to the nuts.

Kung Fu-Thulhu?

Cthung Fu?

Kung-Thulhu?

Kthung-Fulhu?

No, just no.

Things do go down hill fast...

... like sands through the hour glass

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:All of a sudden Earth does come across as a Mythos Mecca, where every wheelbarrow, loose sock, and koi pond hides some eldritch horror. The result is that Lovecraft's special brand of cosmic doom takes a direct kung fu chop to the nuts.

God damn it, there go my gardening plans.

A nice border of stones with elder signs engraved in them ought to protect your tomatoes. But not your parsley. Old Ones love parsley.

So if I lay a decoy parsley bed I can keep them out of the koi pond? I don't want any Japanese pure-bred Deep Ones.