| Re: lovecraft and the shoggoth
I'm going to have to disagree with that interpretation of whether or not shoggoths represent Holy Spirit of any kind. In Lovecraft's Cthulhu Cycles, the Judeo-Christian ideology does fit into his world-view. God or Holy Spirit does not enter into it.
The way I see it, shoggoths are genetically engineered for the sole purpose of serving the Great Old Ones as beasts of burden. It wasn't until the shoggoths has had enough of Old Ones' tyranny so they revolted and massacred nearly the entire race upon the ancient plateau of Leng. If there's any symbology in this, it would be almost like the fall of the Roman Empire. Or the slave uprisings during the nineteenth century America. Take your pick of any history. Where there's tyranny, there's rebellion.
From that novella by Lovecraft, I guess he's sympathetic toward the tyrants. But that's merely a guess anyway. |