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[[James Allison]], the narrator of ''[[Ghor, Kin-Slayer]]'', equates the Mi-Go with the species ''Homo heidelbergensis''. | [[James Allison]], the narrator of ''[[Ghor, Kin-Slayer]]'', equates the Mi-Go with the species ''Homo heidelbergensis''. | ||
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| + | It was of no use to demonstrate to such opponents that the Vermont myths differed but little in essence from those universal legends of natural personification which filled the ancient world with fauns and dryads and satyrs, suggested the kallikanzari of modern Greece, and gave to wild Wales and Ireland their dark hints of strange, small, and terrible hidden races of troglodytes and burrowers. No use, either, to point out the even more startlingly similar belief of the Nepalese hill tribes in the dreaded [[Mi-Go]] or "Abominable Snow-Men" who lurk hideously amidst the ice and rock pinnacles of the Himalayan summits. When I brought up this evidence, my opponents turned it against me by claiming that it must imply some actual historicity for the ancient tales; that it must argue the real existence of some queer elder earth-race, driven to hiding after the advent and dominance of mankind, which might very conceivably have survived in reduced numbers to relatively recent times—or even to the present. | ||
| + | <br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]], ''[[Whisperer in the Darkness (fiction)]]'' | ||
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==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
Revision as of 11:51, 13 July 2016
The Mi-Go, also called the Yehti, are a race of ape-like almost-humans that existed until the Hyborian Age. These creatures may also correspond with Martian Hobgoblins.
James Allison, the narrator of Ghor, Kin-Slayer, equates the Mi-Go with the species Homo heidelbergensis.
Quotes:
It was of no use to demonstrate to such opponents that the Vermont myths differed but little in essence from those universal legends of natural personification which filled the ancient world with fauns and dryads and satyrs, suggested the kallikanzari of modern Greece, and gave to wild Wales and Ireland their dark hints of strange, small, and terrible hidden races of troglodytes and burrowers. No use, either, to point out the even more startlingly similar belief of the Nepalese hill tribes in the dreaded Mi-Go or "Abominable Snow-Men" who lurk hideously amidst the ice and rock pinnacles of the Himalayan summits. When I brought up this evidence, my opponents turned it against me by claiming that it must imply some actual historicity for the ancient tales; that it must argue the real existence of some queer elder earth-race, driven to hiding after the advent and dominance of mankind, which might very conceivably have survived in reduced numbers to relatively recent times—or even to the present.
— H.P. Lovecraft, Whisperer in the Darkness (fiction)
Appearances
- Robert E. Howard et al - Ghor, Kin-Slayer