Sothothery is the embodiment of existential terror.
Sothothery is the embodiment of existential terror.
Sothothery
represents the existential terror that comes from the realization of our own
smallness, insignificance and vulnerability in the cosmic scheme of things.
From the inside, we think of ourselves as the very locus of significance, from
the outside, we are quite insignificant.
Religions over the
ages have made a comfortable living trying to sooth the masses that they are
more significant than they seem. Buy this string, kill this chicken, say this
chant, and the gods will consent to your request. Cash only please, no checks
or credit.
Sothothery reveals
forces so large as to be nearly beyond our comprehension, complex and advanced
beyond our understanding, and powerful beyond our ability to even affect much
less control or defeat.
Sothothery fear come
from being confronted with the fundamental misunderstanding of our importance
in the universe.
The revelation
about our meaninglessness is what brings madness. There is no special
relationship with a divine creator which will grant us exception, there is no
moral balance to the universe that assures the triumph of humanitarian ideals.
The fear is not
about some squidlike creature that can be dispatched by plucky heroes or even a
giant squidlike boss creature requiring the combines efforts of a platoon of
plucky heroes and their muscular technology.
Sothothery is not
about something that is accessible to shoot. Once it becomes something you can
shoot in the face, it loses its significance.
You can kill Camus
(if he doesn’t kill himself first), but you can’t kill the existential angst
that comes from novel The Stranger.
The fear is not
just about the creatures, but instead the fear of powers we can’t comprehend or
understand. We have no way to relate its unknowable vastness and illimitable
power to our mortal scale of abilities.
For Sothoth to
bleed is to give others the wrong impression that their efforts are not futile
or some belief that there is some vector of understanding they can comprehend
of the thing they face. The anxiety of Sothothery is the opposite, it is the
lack of hope and never being able to gain a metric that can measure.
Humani actions are
ineffectual and inconsequential to the Sothoths. The wind and the sun also do
not care if you have lived a moral ethical upstanding life.
Sothothery is not
an adversary, objective or goal, it is only a presence, an insurmountable
shadow that looms over existence.
Too often people
vainly hope they can defeat what adversary may come or at least seal them up or
banish them.
The desperate hope
should not be to overcome or even withstand it, but maybe be inconsequential
enough so it does not notice us so and we can possibly avoid being punished for
our curiosity and be the lucky ones to survive or to have one’s limbs, internal
organs and sanity mostly intact.
People seek
empowerment by being larger, more important and significant than life normally
allows. It is also about the exceptionalist triumph of the ideals of humanity.
This is contrary to the revealed Sothothic truth about the disempowered
insignificance and smallness of our existence.
Sothothery also
reveals a lack of control. The belief in control is an illusion. The illusion
that humani and its allies are the dominant species and there is no problem
their minds and bodies can’t master. This is a carefully constructed lie
perpetrated by the traditional religions, maintainable only by our own
ignorance supported by society at large.
When the society’s
promises of stability is proved false, crime and anarchy follows. In much the
same way, when the veil is lifted on the illusions about control and
significance, terror and madness follows.
There is no
guarantee of a happy ended or even an understanding of the resolution.
There would be a
debatable choice of endings such as whether survival was a victory condition,
perhaps maintaining one’s sanity and able to continue to relate to reality. You
would be forced to try to make sense of the obscure.
This brings us
around to the idea of hypersanity. Explaining the truth of existence to the
uninitiated will be met with jeers, shunning, scorn and disbelief, plus doubts
about one’s credibility and sanity.
Part of the Sothoth
experience is that isolation from hypersanity. It is having an experience that
everyone needs to know but no one is willing to accept. Questioning your
rational mind whether it more reasonable that the entire universe is ignorant
to its peril or that you have lost your grasp of reality.
Sothothery is not
about some series of intimidating cephalopod that needs to be overcome or
thwarted by force and wits. One needs to be prepared for destroying the
empowerment fantasy and being immerse in the lack of control and feeling of
agency
Ultimately we will
have to accept moving away from the fantasy of fighting the great and powerful
Sothoths and accepting that we exist in a universe where Sothothery exerts an
inexorable influence.
The stars and the
wind don’t care how you feel and neither does Yog Sothoth and its kin.
That does not mean
that all decisions are ineffectual and futile. It just means that the great
Sothoths are beyond our ken.
There are myriad
other deluded beings who have traded in the traditional saviours and religious
comforts for another delusion of serving these other powers in the universe.
While they may have some advantage with secret knowledge and access to ancient
advanced technology, they are still finite beings. They are perhaps a few steps
deeper in the veils than you, but they are still quite deluded nevertheless.
They are finite and defeatable.
The Elder Things,
the Great Race of Yith, the Yugguthian Mi-Go, the flying Yaskshtondian Polyps,
even the the Byakhee and The Deep One, are very alien and very advanced, but
they are finite embodied beings.
Deep ones and other
minions like other acolytes, agents and other forms of proxies are finite
embodied beings with comprehendible objectives and agendas. If you prick them,
do they not bleed? if you poison them, do they not die? If you wrong them,
shall they not revenge?
Azathoth,
N'yog-Sothep, Yog Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu, Hastur, Cthaeghya, Cthugha
and the other aethereal beings shall never manifest and neither would we ever
know if they were to manifest. They are as pervasive and ever present as
gravity, entropy, and time, and as ethereal and undefeatable. The aethereals
rule the universe in their incomprehendable, we can only try to affect the
finite minions who try to also deal with the chaos and meaningless of existence
in their own way.
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