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'''Didymus Whateley'''

Origin: "The Tree-House" by [[Robert M. Price]] based on ideas by [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]]



==In the Mythos==


In "The Tree-House", the Whateley "twins" from "[[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]]" were actually triplets, Wilbur and his brother having a third sibling named Didymus, with Lavinia's disappearance actually caused by her being spirited away by Didymus, with Lavinia and Didymus living together in a treehouse (the "tree" itself being a [[Shoggoth]] or a [[Dark Young]], depending on your interpretation). Didymus is essentially stuck looking somewhat childlike in appearance and proportion, but still human-looking, and has been continuing the work of his branch of the Whateley clan ever since.

==Heresies and Controversies==


==Trivia==
* [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]] seems to have destroyed the original version of "The Treehouse" many years ago, and believed the majority of the published story and its ideas/imagery are entirely [[Robert M. Price]]'s, with only a character named John Whateley and the Treehouse being original to WHP; the published version of "The Tree-House" reportedly seems to be about 50-50 split between WHP and RMP: the start is mainly WHP with revisions and additions by RMP and the ending is almost entirely RMP with WHP's original ending being replaced with a completely different one. The character of Didymus Whateley was created by RMP and does NOT appear in WHP's original version; that story instead features familiar Sesquan character Nelson the child of Sesqua who appears in a number of WHP's early Sesqua Valley tales.

==Keeper Notes==


==Associated Mythos Elements==
* cults and characters:
** [[Whateley (family)
** [[Lavinia Whateley]] (mother)
* races:
** [[Dark Young]] (serves as a "tree-house" for the character)

==References==
* YSDC discussion:
** "[https://www.yog-sothoth.com/forums/topic/26119-why-no-love-for-didymus-whateley/ Why no love for Didymus Whateley?]"
** "[https://www.yog-sothoth.com/forums/topic/32325-whateley-family-genealogy/ Whateley Family Genealogy]
* fiction:
** "Tree-House" by [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]], original version published in [http://www.freewebs.com/batglynn/cyaegha.htm Cyaegha #19]
** "Tree-House" by [[Robert M. Price]] and [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]]
** "A Psalm for Didymus Whateley" by [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]]

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 ==Trivia==
-* [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]] seems to have destroyed the original version of "The Treehouse" many years ago, and believed the majority of the published story and its ideas/imagery are entirely [[Robert M. Price]]'s, with only a character named John Whateley and the Treehouse being original to WHP; the published version of "The Tree-House" reportedly seems to be about 50-50 split between WHP and RMP:  the start is mainly WHP with revisions and additions by RMP and the ending is almost entirely RMP with WHP's original ending being replaced with a completely different one. The character of Didymus Whateley was created by RMP and does NOT appear in WHP's original version; that story instead features familiar Sesquan character Nelson the child of Sesqua who appears in a number of WHP's early Sesqua Valley tales.
+* [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]] seems to have destroyed the original version of "The Treehouse" many years ago, and believed the majority of the published story and its ideas/imagery are entirely [[Robert M. Price]]'s, with only a character named John Whateley and the Treehouse being original to WHP; the published version of "The Tree-House" reportedly seems to be about 50-50 split between WHP and RMP:  the start is mainly WHP with revisions and additions by RMP and the ending is almost entirely RMP with WHP's original ending being replaced with a completely different one. The character of Didymus Whateley was created by RMP and ''does not'' appear in WHP's original version; that story instead features familiar Sesquan character [Robert?] Nelson the child of Sesqua who appears in a number of WHP's early Sesqua Valley tales.
 * The name ''Didymus'' is Greek for "twin"; Arius Didymus of Alexandria was a 1st Century BC Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eusebius, attributed to "Arius"; that his full name is Arius Didymus we know from Eusebius, who quotes two long passages of his concerning Stoic views on God; the conflagration of the Universe; and the soul.  Thomas the Apostle ("Doubting Thomas") was also known as Didymus, and a number of other scholars, theorists, philosophers, and writers have born the same name.

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 ==Trivia==
 * [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]] seems to have destroyed the original version of "The Treehouse" many years ago, and believed the majority of the published story and its ideas/imagery are entirely [[Robert M. Price]]'s, with only a character named John Whateley and the Treehouse being original to WHP; the published version of "The Tree-House" reportedly seems to be about 50-50 split between WHP and RMP:  the start is mainly WHP with revisions and additions by RMP and the ending is almost entirely RMP with WHP's original ending being replaced with a completely different one. The character of Didymus Whateley was created by RMP and does NOT appear in WHP's original version; that story instead features familiar Sesquan character Nelson the child of Sesqua who appears in a number of WHP's early Sesqua Valley tales.
-* The name ''Didymus'' is Greek for "twin"; Arius Didymus of Alexandria was a 1st Century BC Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eusebius, attributed to "Arius"; that his full name is Arius Didymus we know from Eusebius, who quotes two long passages of his concerning Stoic views on God; the conflagration of the Universe; and the soul.
+* The name ''Didymus'' is Greek for "twin"; Arius Didymus of Alexandria was a 1st Century BC Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eusebius, attributed to "Arius"; that his full name is Arius Didymus we know from Eusebius, who quotes two long passages of his concerning Stoic views on God; the conflagration of the Universe; and the soul.  Thomas the Apostle ("Doubting Thomas") was also known as Didymus, and a number of other scholars, theorists, philosophers, and writers have born the same name.
 ==Keeper Notes, Heresies and Controversies==

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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * cults and characters:
-** [[Whateley (family)
+** [[Whateley (family)]]
 ** [[Lavinia Whateley]] (mother)
 * races:

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 In "The Tree-House", the Whateley "twins" from "[[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]]" were actually triplets, Wilbur and his brother having a third sibling named Didymus, with Lavinia's disappearance actually caused by her being spirited away by Didymus, with Lavinia and Didymus living together in a treehouse (the "tree" itself being a [[Shoggoth]] or a [[Dark Young]], depending on your interpretation).  Didymus is essentially stuck looking somewhat childlike in appearance and proportion, but still human-looking, and has been continuing the work of his branch of the Whateley clan ever since.
 ==Trivia==
 * [[Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire]] seems to have destroyed the original version of "The Treehouse" many years ago, and believed the majority of the published story and its ideas/imagery are entirely [[Robert M. Price]]'s, with only a character named John Whateley and the Treehouse being original to WHP; the published version of "The Tree-House" reportedly seems to be about 50-50 split between WHP and RMP:  the start is mainly WHP with revisions and additions by RMP and the ending is almost entirely RMP with WHP's original ending being replaced with a completely different one. The character of Didymus Whateley was created by RMP and does NOT appear in WHP's original version; that story instead features familiar Sesquan character Nelson the child of Sesqua who appears in a number of WHP's early Sesqua Valley tales.
-==Keeper Notes==
+==Keeper Notes, Heresies and Controversies==
-<!-- Optional. Suggestions for using this deity in the CoC RPG, and in fan-fiction. -->
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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==