In 1891, the reporter Ambrose Beers wrote a horror novel "A Resident of Calkosa" on a whim. The place name Carcosa may come from Carcassonne, the stronghold of the Albis in France in the Middle Ages, but this is the field of research for Dan Brown. In short, this horror novel writes that someone wakes up in an unfamiliar wilderness, doesn't remember how he left home, is in the cold but doesn't feel cold, and sees things like day in the bright night. After passing by a cemetery, I suddenly realized that I was dead, and the wasteland I was in was the ancient city that had been abandoned hundreds of years later, his former residence, Calcosa. At the end of the article, Bills stated that the story was told by the dead themselves through the mouth of psychics.
Four years later, a romance writer Robert Chambers accidentally saw this novel and was shocked, so he borrowed the place name of Calcosa and the shepherd god Hasta and Ha Li Hu et al. wrote a series of 12 horror novels and published it called The King in Yellow. The Chinese version was published by Baijia Publishing House in 2005 and was translated as Huangpao Demon King. The protagonists of Chambers all fell into a semi-crazy situation after reading the cursed banned book The King in Yellow, "marked by the yellow charm". Especially the first four "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign". There are not many references to this fictional book in Huangpao's novels, only a few "quotations from the original", such as the following poem "Song of Cahirda".
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
From the beginning of the yellow spell, but not included in the Chinese version. In Dora's notebook, you can see that she copied the first and second verses, as well as "the king's children are marked" and closed eyes. The image of the eyes seems to be unable to find the source from Chambers, expecting the screenwriter to reveal the secret. But this mark is the yellow spell. In the original text, it is the mark behind the King of Yellow Clothes. Going
back to Chambers, the text described the King of Yellow Clothes as a side description of the play. Evil books are unstoppable. For example:
I pray that God cursed the author because he cursed the world with his wonderful and amazing works. The frankness in the text is outrageous, and the truth contained in it is irrefutable-the world is in a yellow robe The front of the devil was trembling.
And:
Who wrote these words, as crystal clear, as clear and sweet as a trickling spring; like an evil gem, so dazzling despite being poisoned? what! The cursed evil spirit actually eats the soul with these words. This phrase can be understood by both the fool and the wise. This phrase is more precious than jewelry, more pleasant than fairy music, and more than death. despicable!
Poe very much.
Later, Mr. Lovecraft, who came from the stars, accidentally saw Chambers's novels, and was shocked by the heavens, so he borrowed a lot of stalks into the story of Cthulhu. For example, the maddening banned book The King in Yellow has become the Necronomicon; for example, in the fourth chapter The Yellow Sign, the night watchman who monitors the narrator and asks "Have you ever seen the yellow spell" turned into a pool Puss and blood, the post-mortem doctor said that this person had been dead for at least several months, and this stem was also changed by Lovecraft into The Thing on the Doorstep. He was consciously locked in the rotting corpse, and the sadness melted in front of the Jiyou door. Edward Derby.
In the fifth episode, in Reggie's words about Black Star, Yellow King and Time Reincarnation [Black Star rises, I know what will happen next. I saw you in a dream. You are with me in Calkosa now. He saw you. Time is a circle] After that, the king of yellow clothes suddenly rose in popularity in various comments. Some Cthulhu fans even discussed whether the film will turn into a supernatural style, and whether the two true investigators will transform into an agent spirit. World affairs. You guys with big brains can summon the old rulers, please. Didn’t Charlie say that in the third episode? There is a place called Calkossa, where rich people held cult rituals and sacrificed women and children. And believers Reggie and Dora also have "yellow marks" behind them. It is very possible that the murderous king of yellow clothes is just the code name of a rich man whose head is broken, and it is very likely that it is the tuttle that appears at the end of the film. However, after realizing the connection between the show and Cthulhu, it seems that he suddenly found the source of Rust's comment on string dolls.
"Del and Papodi had read "The Book of the Necromancers" and saw the nightmarish patterns drawn by Clark Ashton Smith based on the "Book of the Necromancers." When I mentioned ancient things , They will definitely know. The myth claims that they created all earth creatures out of a joke or mistake."
from Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness".
The contempt for humans in Lovecraft's world is evident. This man from the stars believes that the value of man is no different from that of ants. In front of those alien gods, human beings are as small as a grain of dust, desperately trying to hold on to the last trace of their thoughts that can make them feel safe, ordinary and normal. And for a small number of transgressors who desperately wanted to get a glimpse of the chaotic gods, what awaited them was the eternal result of being mad. The secrets of the gods can be guarded by the demented madman, and then the new crossover appears again, and time will fall into a cycle of reincarnation like ouroboros. Just as Rust said while playing with the canned can, "Everything outside this dimension is eternal, eternal looking down on us, we see the celestial sphere, and they "[point to the blue sky above the head]" Seeing that we are just a flat circle ".
Only in the fifth episode, we don't know what Rust and Pony saw in the end. But in 2012, Rust’s mental state was infinitely close to those critically ill patients who accidentally touched the essence of the universe. His pursuit of the murderer Yellow King continued the path of self-destruction of the protagonists of Cthulhu indulging in the Yellow King script/Necromancer/Chaos knowledge without exception. Like the protagonists of the Cthulhu story, he has a wealth of knowledge and excellent memory, but the truth that he has explored through his unremitting efforts is so harsh that the common sense and the rules that he has accumulated for decades and conscientiously followed are collapsed in the face of reality. . He realized the inexplicable mystery and horror of the human heart, and had an unparalleled pessimism about the inevitability of fate, and since then became a nihilist who eats and waits for death.
Rust said: Life is a dream, there is always a monster waiting for you at the end. Although we are sure that this monster will not be an alien that combines the characteristics of an octopus and a spider, the one that created Rust in 2012 is deeply rooted in the darkness of the vague nature of human beings like the ancient gods.
PS. The lyrics of the fifth episode's ending song ELI, Eli, you can't tell left from right; Eli, your eyes are black and white, reminds me of the god of chaos, Asathos...
PPS. After all, the screenwriter is also I didn’t explain why the believer said I know you when he saw people, and why is rust called priest?
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