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drawn between the Antarctic race of genealogists, the
insightful statement regarding the relationship between Cthulhu and the
Old Ones, and the gods they worshiped  the Great Old Ones. More-
Great Old Ones.
over, reference is also made to those forces in opposition to the Great
Old Ones and their followers. These beings were The Forgotten Ones.
He is their cousin and can spy them but dimly.
The specific reference regarding them calls them worse than form-
less. An indication of their partial dimensionality.
In my estimation, this statement alone is enough to eliminate any
speculation on the subject of, whether or not, the Forgotten Ones are
Where do they come from and what do
interchangeable with the Great Old Ones. In one sentence, Lovecraft
separates Cthulhu from the Great Old Ones pantheon, and implies that
they look like?
there is an even more remote collection of entities sloughing around
As mentioned above, The Forgotten Ones were/are a collection of
in the preternatural slime, shadow and ooze.
egregores worshiped by the Elder Race. The Elder Race came to earth
In addition to that, he is clearly in reference to Cthulhu as a priest
(according to Lovecraft), some 600 million years ago, and they
 indicating that there existed a group, which required his devotion,
brought their gods, the Forgotten Ones, with them.
thus, the Forgotten Ones.
This arrival interrupts the work of the Old Ones, 3 a collection of
entities busy at the work of engineering every type of lifeform that the
... about three million years ago, the Old planet would subsequently house. The Old Ones are also known as the
Star Headed Old Ones, due to the shape of their... well... head.
Ones engineer humanity as play toys and
A war ensues, the results of which are unclear. Enter the Great
Race4 . The Great Race, apparently, had it in for both the Elder Race
menial workers. Their utilization is, how-
and the Old Ones. The long and the short of it being, that the Elder
ever, short lived. The Shoggoths rebel
Race is locked away /suppressed, and an uneasy trade/war situation
develops between The Old Ones and the Great Race. This concludes
and wipe out the Old Ones, leaving hu-
with the resurgence of the Elder Race, which wipes out the Great Race
manity and the Deep Ones in control of (or at least forces them to flee).
Unfortunately for Cthulhu and Company, the Old Ones have the last
the planet.
laugh and re-imprison them outside of reality with a collection of
signs and seals.
Having accomplished this Feat about three million years ago, the
As a side note, this reference links, as well as separates, the Great
Old Ones engineer humanity as play toys and menial workers. Their
Old Ones from the Forgotten Ones. What is implied is a cosmic,
utilization is, however, short lived. The Shoggoths5 rebel and wipe out
familial relationship or dimensional kinship. This inferance is coined
the Old Ones, leaving humanity and the Deep Ones6 in control of the
by the word spy (or perceive).
multi-dimensional sense, i.e. in 5 dimensions rather
than 4 or in a split dimensional sense, e.g. dwelling
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primarily in an alternative universe. Current theory
favors the former conclusion. For the Elder Race
planet.
exists, not in the spaces we know but between them,
An understanding of the Forgotten Ones can prob- so that they can walk among us, monstrous and
ably be obtained through an understanding of the race
unseen. This would indicate that they can see us
which worshiped them. As gods and egregores have, for
while we can t see them.
us, taken on very anthropomorphic qualities, it would
An analogous situation can be found in the Novella, Flatland. A
be logical to conclude that the Forgotten Ones pos- place inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional objects (squares,
sessed Eldermorphic characteristics.
circles, triangle, etc.). During that story, the peace of these intelli-
We know what Cthulhu looked like, because of
gent, but simple beings, is interrupted by the appearance of an intelli-
descriptions available to us from Lovecraftian sources:
gent sphere. The sphere had the power to transect the reality of the
the octopus head; wings; claws; and the semi-formless
flatlanders - it appeared as a circle (as any sphere would appear if it
crossed a two dimensional plane), and communicated with the
flatlanders. This intelligent sphere even went so far as to take a
flatlander circle into the 3rd dimensional plane, allowing the circle to
In any event, the nature of the Elder Race
look down on the world of Flatland.
leads one to suspect that their gods are a
We are in no immediate danger though, of a Forgotten One
transecting our dimensional space. They have apparently lost interest
fairly awesome collection of malevolent
in this plane of existence; seeking only to traffic with those foolish
entities - of which we know of only one, enough to attempt the astral and mental gymnastics, which exist as a
prerequisite for contacting these entities. Maybe even going so far as
Tsathoggua.
to wipe out only the ones who come close to realizing their presence.
(The fate of Abdul Azzared, the legendary author of the Necronomicon
comes to mind).7 Like circles attempting to contemplate a sphere, we
quality of appearance all lends to the picture of just
do not have the mental agility to wrap our minds around 5th dimen-
what these beings may have appeared like.
sional entities; thus we are not a threat and are not worthy of attention.
From what we can garner from Lovecraft, the Elder
Another possibility is that they are, in fact, actively seeking re-
Race exist in a dimensional space-time quite different
admitance (and revenge), but the constraints placed on them by the Old
from our own and that of the other races in the
Ones remain intact. The obscure phrase, when the stars are right,
Lovecraftian cycle. They are often referred to as being,
does not refer to a specific astrological confluence, which will come
hard to perceive, or, semi-dimensional. This condition
and go; but to a point in the future when the barriers erected by the Old
should hold true for the beings that they worshiped as
Ones finally collapse.
well. Interestingly enough, Cthulhu itself possesses the
The Old Ones were wiped out by their servants - the Shoggoth, and
ability to recombine - so even as a totally, solid entity,
are unable to maintain the barriers erected against the return of the
these creatures retain a great deal of plasticity.
Forgotten Ones.
This semi-dimensional existence leads to specula-
In the absence of the Old Ones, we would become the primary
tion regarding whether the Elder Race existed in a
target for revenge. Since the cities of the Old Ones have long since
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vanished, it is our cities, which shall feel their wrath  not a There, exists at least a tentative connection. Despite
happy thought. No avenue exists for appeal or placation. their hideous forms, the Great Old Ones exist in
Later myth and history has become so twisted that we won t four-dimensional space-time.
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