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TL DR (?): So in other words, what do you guys think? Do you interpret Azathoth in a similar way that most people do or do you perhaps have a radically different idea of what this Cosmic Horror is? Comment below. I'd like to know.
As an avid reader of HP Lovecraft and a huge fan of the Cthulhu Mythos aka "The Yog Sothothery" I am often involved in many discussions mostly involving the Gods or Mysterious Alien Entities in Question. Certain questions are repeated more often then not and one of them that I'm involved in over and over again is the interpretation of Azathoth.
As in: "How is an All-Powerful Entity like Azathoth an Idiot?" and I think this is just a misunderstanding brought upon because of Lovecraft's vague writing and the conflicting interpretations that many writers have had about the Entity.
From my understanding (and current headcanon) the title of "Blind Idiot God" should be viewed less as literal view and more as a human response to witness to something so VASTLY beyond mortal understanding that it leaves one not only shocked but insulted. Think of the way a religion interprets their All-Powerful Creator as how perfect or beautiful He/She/It is. What are the odds something so Ancient and that it predates our own World (or Universe) would look so aesthetically pleasing to us.
Entities like Dagon and Cthulhu are already Biologically Alien enough to where our minds either go mad by looking directly at them or faintly just by catching a glimpse of their True Form. So the idea of witnessing Azathoth, something superior, if you were to survive taking a gander of the thing, would not only leave you drop dead insane but likely flabbergasted by what you just saw.
That is if you weren't permanently absorbed to its Biomass, thus becoming a part of Azathoth Itself. I mean Azathoth Itself, that name isn't even its real name, it's just a name given to It by the Necronomicon to make sense of the Primal Chaos. Perhaps the absolute best way to describe the thing is calling it the Primal Chaos.
If we were to follow the most popular interpretation, I.E. the idea of the Cosmic Dreamer Scenario, the way I interpret the thing is that our Universe/Multiverse is just a puny little thought amidst the infinitely massive collective that is Azathoth's Mind. There is no true way of meeting, talking, or fighting the Entity since we're just all immeasurably tiny fragments of Fictions Most Powerful and Frightening Eldritch Abomination. A collection of thoughts with our own minds, dreams, and lives to live but all of them are a part of It. If Azathoth does have an Absolute Will or preference its probably so vague and abstract we wouldn't be able to know or conceive of it. Perhaps the only way to Truly meet the Entity as it is would be is for the Dream to finally End by Itself.
Maybe in the same way a Dream Ends once the dreamer is aware that he is a dream, perhaps one day enough individuals and groups will realize the meaninglessness of it all and we'll stare into the Truth of Oblivion, and as the Collective of the Dreaming God, Azathoth will wake and all of Existence will end as a byproduct of It waking from Its own dream.
Every molecule, every god, every horror, every thought, every mortal, every element, fragment, idea, concept, life, moment will Cease to be and the Entity that was will be alone again until perhaps another time when it chooses to Dream. Because Azathoth Is, Azathoth Was, and in the End Azathoth is the ONLY thing that ever will be and beyond.
As an avid reader of HP Lovecraft and a huge fan of the Cthulhu Mythos aka "The Yog Sothothery" I am often involved in many discussions mostly involving the Gods or Mysterious Alien Entities in Question. Certain questions are repeated more often then not and one of them that I'm involved in over and over again is the interpretation of Azathoth.
As in: "How is an All-Powerful Entity like Azathoth an Idiot?" and I think this is just a misunderstanding brought upon because of Lovecraft's vague writing and the conflicting interpretations that many writers have had about the Entity.
From my understanding (and current headcanon) the title of "Blind Idiot God" should be viewed less as literal view and more as a human response to witness to something so VASTLY beyond mortal understanding that it leaves one not only shocked but insulted. Think of the way a religion interprets their All-Powerful Creator as how perfect or beautiful He/She/It is. What are the odds something so Ancient and that it predates our own World (or Universe) would look so aesthetically pleasing to us.
Entities like Dagon and Cthulhu are already Biologically Alien enough to where our minds either go mad by looking directly at them or faintly just by catching a glimpse of their True Form. So the idea of witnessing Azathoth, something superior, if you were to survive taking a gander of the thing, would not only leave you drop dead insane but likely flabbergasted by what you just saw.
That is if you weren't permanently absorbed to its Biomass, thus becoming a part of Azathoth Itself. I mean Azathoth Itself, that name isn't even its real name, it's just a name given to It by the Necronomicon to make sense of the Primal Chaos. Perhaps the absolute best way to describe the thing is calling it the Primal Chaos.
If we were to follow the most popular interpretation, I.E. the idea of the Cosmic Dreamer Scenario, the way I interpret the thing is that our Universe/Multiverse is just a puny little thought amidst the infinitely massive collective that is Azathoth's Mind. There is no true way of meeting, talking, or fighting the Entity since we're just all immeasurably tiny fragments of Fictions Most Powerful and Frightening Eldritch Abomination. A collection of thoughts with our own minds, dreams, and lives to live but all of them are a part of It. If Azathoth does have an Absolute Will or preference its probably so vague and abstract we wouldn't be able to know or conceive of it. Perhaps the only way to Truly meet the Entity as it is would be is for the Dream to finally End by Itself.
Maybe in the same way a Dream Ends once the dreamer is aware that he is a dream, perhaps one day enough individuals and groups will realize the meaninglessness of it all and we'll stare into the Truth of Oblivion, and as the Collective of the Dreaming God, Azathoth will wake and all of Existence will end as a byproduct of It waking from Its own dream.
Every molecule, every god, every horror, every thought, every mortal, every element, fragment, idea, concept, life, moment will Cease to be and the Entity that was will be alone again until perhaps another time when it chooses to Dream. Because Azathoth Is, Azathoth Was, and in the End Azathoth is the ONLY thing that ever will be and beyond.
