Comments on: Peanuts/Cthulhu tee http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: hypnosifl http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html#comment-1532551 hypnosifl Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180964#comment-1532551 Sorry, was composing my own comment below when you replied so I didn't see it before posting...thanks for the info on it being used to ward against minions of Elder Gods though (although from the wiki entry it doesn't sound like Lovecraft had any notion of what the sign was used for besides warding off "Deep Ones" in Shadow Over Innsmouth, so I assume this idea that it wards off "minions of the Elder Gods" would have been a later addition in Derleth's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" rel="nofollow">more Christian-influenced version of the Cthulhu Mythos</a> where Cthulhu and the evil Elder Gods and their various creations were all seen as being on the "same side" in a cosmic good vs. evil battle against the friendly Elder Ones) Sorry, was composing my own comment below when you replied so I didn’t see it before posting…thanks for the info on it being used to ward against minions of Elder Gods though (although from the wiki entry it doesn’t sound like Lovecraft had any notion of what the sign was used for besides warding off “Deep Ones” in Shadow Over Innsmouth, so I assume this idea that it wards off “minions of the Elder Gods” would have been a later addition in Derleth’s more Christian-influenced version of the Cthulhu Mythos where Cthulhu and the evil Elder Gods and their various creations were all seen as being on the “same side” in a cosmic good vs. evil battle against the friendly Elder Ones)

]]> By: hypnosifl http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html#comment-1532531 hypnosifl Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180964#comment-1532531 Never mind, figured it out with some googling and research into forbidden tomes--apparently there's something in Lovecraft lore called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Sign" rel="nofollow">elder sign</a>, and although Lovecraft himself drew it as a <a href="http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/myths.asp#eldersign" rel="nofollow">sort of branch</a>, thanks to a description made up by Cthulhu mythos writer August Derleth it's often depicted as a warped pentagram, and for some reason a lot of people seem to <a href="http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2008/09/25/cthulhu-shout-out-hp-lovecraft-elder-sign-tattoo-gws-reader-ink/" rel="nofollow">draw it the same way</a> (apparently this version of the drawing appears in the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, maybe that's how it became the "standard") Never mind, figured it out with some googling and research into forbidden tomes–apparently there’s something in Lovecraft lore called the elder sign, and although Lovecraft himself drew it as a sort of branch, thanks to a description made up by Cthulhu mythos writer August Derleth it’s often depicted as a warped pentagram, and for some reason a lot of people seem to draw it the same way (apparently this version of the drawing appears in the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, maybe that’s how it became the “standard”)

]]> By: pKp http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html#comment-1532514 pKp Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180964#comment-1532514 If by "curvy cartoon hexagram with the eye " you mean "curvy pentagram with the eye", then yes, it's an old representation of a bit of Lovecraftian lore called the "Elder Sign", used by the Elder Things (barrel-shaped tentacular aliens that colonized Earth before Humans existed) to repel minions of the Elder Gods (Cthulhu and its ilk). Kinda weird to see it used directly under Cthulhu/Snoopy, unless the doghouse is used in some kind of containment ritual.This particular representation of it isn't Lovecraft's, but August Derleth's, who was Lovecraft's friend and continuator. The original Elder Sign looked like this : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Elder_sign.jpg More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Sign <i>Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn !</i> TL;DR : it's a sign created by Cthulhu's creator HP Lovecraft, used to repel beings in the service of said divinity. If by “curvy cartoon hexagram with the eye ” you mean “curvy pentagram with the eye”, then yes, it’s an old representation of a bit of Lovecraftian lore called the “Elder Sign”, used by the Elder Things (barrel-shaped tentacular aliens that colonized Earth before Humans existed) to repel minions of the Elder Gods (Cthulhu and its ilk). Kinda weird to see it used directly under Cthulhu/Snoopy, unless the doghouse is used in some kind of containment ritual.This particular representation of it isn’t Lovecraft’s, but August Derleth’s, who was Lovecraft’s friend and continuator. The original Elder Sign looked like this : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Elder_sign.jpg
More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Sign

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn !

TL;DR : it’s a sign created by Cthulhu’s creator HP Lovecraft, used to repel beings in the service of said divinity.

]]> By: hypnosifl http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html#comment-1532391 hypnosifl Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180964#comment-1532391 Totally ordered. But quick question, is that curvy cartoon hexagram with the eye in it from some other illustration? I feel like I've seen it before...maybe just deja vu or mysterious unnameable dread... Totally ordered. But quick question, is that curvy cartoon hexagram with the eye in it from some other illustration? I feel like I’ve seen it before…maybe just deja vu or mysterious unnameable dread…

]]> By: angusm http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html#comment-1532360 angusm Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180964#comment-1532360 <i>"It was a dark and stormy night ..."</i> “It was a dark and stormy night …”

]]> By: gmills http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/peanutscthulhu-tee.html#comment-1532339 gmills Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=180964#comment-1532339 I was initially excited to show this to my 9 and 11 year-old because they love Cthulhu, but then I realized I'd have to explain to them what Peanuts is. This is a strange world.  I was initially excited to show this to my 9 and 11 year-old because they love Cthulhu, but then I realized I’d have to explain to them what Peanuts is. This is a strange world. 

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