Facts about Cthulhu

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   A Great Old One in the Lovecraftian pantheon, Cthulhu is worshipped by a secret human cult that awaits his awakening.

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   Cthulhu's name is intentionally unpronounceable by humans, with Lovecraft suggesting 'Khlûl'-hloo' as the closest human approximation.

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   Lovecraft's Cthulhu inspired a sprawling shared fictional universe known as the Cthulhu Mythos, later expanded by writers including August Derleth.

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   Described as a hybrid of octopus, human, and dragon, Cthulhu lies in a death-like sleep in the sunken city of R'lyeh beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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   The cosmic entity Cthulhu was created by H.P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu.

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