Lovecraft's Contradiction

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**odinsgrandson**

Lance845 wrote:
The "secret history" of the Earth isn't the unknown that is at the center of Lovecrafts horror.

It's the totally alien entities who's actions and motivations are completely opaque and inscrutable.

Cthulhu has no motivations we can understand. While we can see the Whatley's and their motivations because they are human or at least human in part, Shub-Niggurath and Yog Sothoth are entirely different creatures.

The Color Out Of Space is unstoppable and unknowable.

I think I agree about the Color Out of Space, but each time we revisit these other entities, he fleshes them out just a little more and lets us know them just a little more.

The Mountains of Madness mural was all about giving us their history- which I feel lends us insight into their motivations.