The Elder Gods, also referred to as the Elder Deities, are fictional extraterrestrial entities featured in the Cthulhu Mythos. They are originally described as looking like huge pillars of light or fire, which dwell in the vicinity of the star Betelgeuse, and are known to protect humans while...

Cthulhu Mythos deities are a group of fictional deities created by American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), and later expanded by others in the fictional universe known as the Cthulhu mythos. These entities are usually depicted as immensely powerful and utterly indifferent to humans.

In Derleth's version of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthugha is a Great Old One, an elemental spirit of fire opposed to the Elder Gods. Derleth set its homeworld as the star Fomalhaut , which had featured in Lovecraft's poetry.

In the majority of Derleth's best-known Mythos stories, the beneficent deities are referred to as the Elder Gods, and the malign deities are referred to primarily as the Great Old Ones or the Ancient Ones.

The Elder Gods are extremely ambiguous in the Cthulhu Mythos, and have been approached in different ways by different authors. Lovecraft named only one "Elder God", Nodens , and does not portray Nodens as differing significantly in nature from the other deities, although he did portray him as a primal entity, and an enemy of Nyarlathotep.

The Elder Gods are a group of cosmic beings which feature in the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Cthulhu Mythos. Whilst initially depicted by Lovecraft as little different to the other deities of the setting, they have been retroactively portrayed as the adversaries to such entities as the Outer Gods...

Aug 28, 2020 · In Cthulhu Mythos, the Elder Gods have mostly human-like appearance and they are benevolent in nature. In different parts of the world such as Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Mediterranean they were worshipped by ancient humans.

Largely developed by Sandy Petersen, this version of the Mythos broke Lovecraft's entities down into further sub-groupings: Outer Gods, Great Old Ones, Elder Gods, Great Ones, and the nebulously-termed "Lesser Dreamlands Deities", such as Oukranos. Material from these sources has slowly crept back into mainstream Mythos fiction, as Chaosium ...

Jan 16, 2016 · Via Myconfinedspace, here’s an excellent full-size map of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos beings, ranked by hierarchy. Lovecraft’s cosmic creations originated from deep space, some of whom had become the original gods of Earth.

The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, ... the Elder Gods.... These Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefully...very rarely stirring forth to intervene in the unceasing struggle between the powers of evil and the races of Earth. These powers of evil were variously known ...