Talk:Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)

Elder Gods disambiguation page

Aren't there many "Elder Gods" in fantasy literature? This should probably be a disambig page. --seav 11:51, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Indeed, as with the Elder Gods of Marvel Comics, for whom I'm preparing a Wikipedia entry. I agree a disambiguation page is needed. For now, I'll add a link in this page. Wilfredo Martinez 23:38, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BTW: I created a dab page today for Elder Gods. _/^R'lyehRising_\^Ia! 00:20, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

The following are the page histories for the articles merged.
-,-~^R'lyehRising~-,- 05:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kthanid history

00:27, 10 February 2006 RlyehRising (mrg into Elder God (Cthulhu mythos), chg to redr)
19:11, 26 January 2006 RlyehRising (?Kthanid in the mythos - cpyedt, +WP:NOR warning, +{fact})
10:34, 26 January 2006 149.170.39.34 (?Kthanid in the mythos)
17:27, 24 November 2005 RlyehRising m (?References - -redt cat, chg stub)
21:03, 22 November 2005 RlyehRising m (-tmpl, fix)
12:55, 22 November 2005 Bluebot m (Robot: Changing category Cthulhu Mythos)
18:56, 22 October 2005 RlyehRising m (?Kthanid in the mythos - fix)
16:53, 7 October 2005 RlyehRising m (fix)
21:50, 20 August 2005 Gate2Valusia (wiki, +tmpl, cl)
18:53, 20 August 2005 68.80.235.197
08:59, 25 July 2005 Wereon m
13:36, 20 July 2005 CLAES m (interwiki)
00:36, 11 July 2005 Gate2Valusia m (+)
21:53, 2 July 2005 Gate2Valusia m (-wd)
13:21, 2 July 2005 Gate2Valusia m (gr, +lnks)
12:06, 17 June 2005 MakeRocketGoNow (Category:Cthulhu mythos deities)
12:01, 6 June 2005 Remuel m (sorted stub)
06:55, 6 June 2005 Longhair (stub)
06:27, 6 June 2005 62.8.115.122 (Kthanid)

N'tse-Kaambl history

00:27, 10 February 2006 RlyehRising (mrg into Elder God (Cthulhu mythos), chg to redr)
18:15, 2 January 2006 *Ria777* m
18:14, 2 January 2006 *Ria777* m
18:14, 2 January 2006 *Ria777* m
23:24, 24 November 2005 RlyehRising m (?N'tse-Kaambl in the mythos - -redt cat)
13:03, 22 November 2005 Bluebot m (Robot: Changing category Cthulhu Mythos)
15:35, 25 October 2005 MeltBanana m (?N'tse-Kaambl in the mythos - fix cat)
18:55, 22 October 2005 RlyehRising m (?N'tse-Kaambl in the mythos - fix)
18:33, 29 July 2005 CLAES m (interwiki)
22:22, 10 July 2005 Gate2Valusia (gr, chg to fantasy stub for consistency, +cat, REFs?)
13:32, 14 February 2005 68.80.233.169
16:48, 24 December 2004 Bryan Derksen m (Category:Cthulhu mythos deities)
11:58, 21 December 2004 Senori m
11:24, 21 December 2004 142.213.85.254

Fictional deity?

I'm tweaking the first line. I don't believe that there's enough of a concrete encyclopedic distinction between fictional and ”factual“ deities to warrant inclusion of the former term in the introduction. samwaltz (talk) 18:47, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The concrete encyclopedic distinction is that "factual" deities are worshipped by large swathes of culture and serious logical arguments can, and have been, put forth asserting their actual existence. To put it shortly, people actually believe in or have believed in "factual" deities, while someone who believes in Cthulhu is analogous to someone who prays to Harry Potter. "Fictional" is also not entirely redundant in that, while no discrepancies have yet been noted between the like-named gods in each, the Cthulhu mythos may strongly diverge at some point from actual mythoi. I will not revert until concensus is reached for fear of starting an edit war, but please consider my points. 216.82.142.13 (talk) 22:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]