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[Anonymous No.9874707]

I've always wondered how many deities are in Lovecraft's work and what sets the elder gods with the outer gods and the other ones.

[Anonymous No.9874753]

>>9874707
Vageyena.

[Anonymous No.9874762]

>>9874707
There are no deities, per se.
We just call some of them "gods". Since they are races, technically more than have been named.

Lovecraft's world is, in essence, materialistic.

As for the real question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities
http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Cthulhu_Mythos_deities

>what sets the elder gods with the outer gods and the other ones.
The distinction isn't really clear. And it changes often.
As a rule of thumb:
The Great Old Ones (Big C and the gang) are alien races, who are on earth. (With many minor "gods").
The Outer Gods can be divided between the Elder Gods and the Other Gods and are more "cosmic scale".
The Other Gods are mindless and, like, super dangerous, so never leave that flat-earth-dreamscape, boy.

[Anonymous No.9874773]

>>9874707
The distinction is merely ontological and a question of location, with there being no meaningful relation to human consciousness/activity,
making the question a pointless one.

[Anonymous No.9874785]

>>9874707
are you looking for a definitive, authoritative final list of the official Lovecraftverse[tm] deities? so you can argue that this one shouldn't be on the list because Lovecraft never wrote about it, but this other one should because it was in all these other stories which you personally like but which Lovecraft didn't write and that guy over there who thinks Zalgo is canon is obviously insane because nope and

jesus christ, i am tired of sperglings who want to make lists of everything so they can argue about them.

[Anonymous No.9874799]

>>9874785
Some people think there is a "canon" to the Lovecraft mythos.