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Gloon, "Corrupter of Flesh" and "Guardian of the Atlantean Temple", may appear to worshipers as a tall, beautiful, naked young man wearing a laurel wreath, but its true form is that of a wrinkled, slimy, slug-like horror. ([[Malleus Monstrorum]]) | Gloon, "Corrupter of Flesh" and "Guardian of the Atlantean Temple", may appear to worshipers as a tall, beautiful, naked young man wearing a laurel wreath, but its true form is that of a wrinkled, slimy, slug-like horror. ([[Malleus Monstrorum]]) | ||
| − | Possessing a statuette or idol of Gloon and touching it with bare hands will curse full-blooded humans with strange nightmare visions of sunken Atlantis and Gloon's ruined temple, carved from solid rock in a valley where a river once ran before the continent was submerged, the temple lit from within by some strange luminescence, with the ghastly dancing forms of Gloon's [[Deep One]] worshipers silhouetted against the windows and doorways. ("[[The Temple (fiction)|The Temple]]") | + | |
| + | ==Gloon Figurine== | ||
| + | Possessing a figurine, statuette or idol of Gloon and touching it with bare hands will curse full-blooded humans with strange nightmare visions of sunken Atlantis and Gloon's ruined temple, carved from solid rock in a valley where a river once ran before the continent was submerged, the temple lit from within by some strange luminescence, with the ghastly dancing forms of Gloon's [[Deep One]] worshipers silhouetted against the windows and doorways. ("[[The Temple (fiction)|The Temple]]") | ||
==Cults== | ==Cults== | ||
| − | + | The cult of Gloon may typically consist of [[Deep One]]s and their human collaborators and hybrids, along with [[Servant of Gloon|Servants of Gloon]] and worship of Gloon may appear side-by-side with worship of "Father" [[Dagon]], "Mother" [[Hydra]], and [[Cthulhu]], with some details appearing in the ''[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]'', ''[[The Pnakotic Fragments]]'', and in other tomes associated with Atlantis and water demons and cults. | |
| − | The cult of Gloon may typically consist of [[Deep One]]s and their human collaborators and hybrids, and worship of Gloon may appear side-by-side with worship of "Father" [[Dagon]], "Mother" [[Hydra]], and [[Cthulhu]], with some details appearing in the ''[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]'', ''[[The Pnakotic Fragments]]'', and in other tomes associated with Atlantis and water demons and cults. | ||
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* "Our men searched him for souvenirs, and found in his coat pocket a very odd bit of ivory carved to represent a youth's head crowned with laurel.... I could not forget the youthful, beautiful head with its leafy crown, though I am not by nature an artist." - HPL "[[The Temple (fiction)|The Temple]]" | * "Our men searched him for souvenirs, and found in his coat pocket a very odd bit of ivory carved to represent a youth's head crowned with laurel.... I could not forget the youthful, beautiful head with its leafy crown, though I am not by nature an artist." - HPL "[[The Temple (fiction)|The Temple]]" | ||
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| − | * | + | ==Associated Mythos Elements== |
| − | * [[ | + | * artifact: Gloon Figurine |
| − | * [[ | + | * tome: ''[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]'' |
| + | * races: | ||
| + | ** [[Servant of Gloon]] | ||
| + | ** [[Deep One]] | ||
| + | ** [[Human Cultist]] | ||
| + | * locations: | ||
| + | ** [[Atlantis]] | ||
| + | ** [[Lemuria]] | ||
| + | ** [[Mu]] | ||
| + | ** [[R'lyeh]] | ||
| + | * cult: (see above) | ||
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==Rumors and Speculation== | ==Rumors and Speculation== | ||
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* Gloon may be a anthropomorphic, conventionalized representation of [[Dagon]]/[[Cthulhu]] carved by Atlantean artisans in a form less disconcerting to human worshipers of the Cthulhu cult, portraying Cthulhu and its [[Deep One]] priests as a beautiful male, human youth, to reassure those unfortunate human women chosen as "sea brides" for "Dagon", in much the same way that Gloon's female counterpart is conventionalized as a beautiful mermaid for the comfort of human men who are to marry sea-maidens of the [[Deep One]]s. | * Gloon may be a anthropomorphic, conventionalized representation of [[Dagon]]/[[Cthulhu]] carved by Atlantean artisans in a form less disconcerting to human worshipers of the Cthulhu cult, portraying Cthulhu and its [[Deep One]] priests as a beautiful male, human youth, to reassure those unfortunate human women chosen as "sea brides" for "Dagon", in much the same way that Gloon's female counterpart is conventionalized as a beautiful mermaid for the comfort of human men who are to marry sea-maidens of the [[Deep One]]s. | ||
* The Comte d'Erlette insisted in his infamous ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'' that Gloon was a "water elemental", and systematically traced relationships and conflicts between Gloon and other supposed "elemental spirits" in elaborate family trees that may contain at least as much fantasy as accurate historical information. | * The Comte d'Erlette insisted in his infamous ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'' that Gloon was a "water elemental", and systematically traced relationships and conflicts between Gloon and other supposed "elemental spirits" in elaborate family trees that may contain at least as much fantasy as accurate historical information. | ||
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| + | ==Appearances== | ||
| + | * "[[The Temple (fiction)|The Temple]]" (as unnamed ivory carving) | ||
| + | * [[Cthulhu Now]] | ||
| + | * [[Malleus Monstrorum]] | ||
[[Category:Great_Old_Ones]] | [[Category:Great_Old_Ones]] | ||
Revision as of 02:39, 28 June 2022
First appears in "The Temple" as an ivory carving with no name attributed to it.
The name "Gloon" seems to have appeared in a scenario in Cthulhu Now (G.W. Thomas's scenario "The City in the Sea"), and then in Malleus Monstrorum. (The word "gloon" seems to have first appeared in Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel Vril, or The Coming Race (fiction), allegedly a word from the language of the Vril-ya (underground civilization of the novel) and means "town".)
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Description
Gloon, "Corrupter of Flesh" and "Guardian of the Atlantean Temple", may appear to worshipers as a tall, beautiful, naked young man wearing a laurel wreath, but its true form is that of a wrinkled, slimy, slug-like horror. (Malleus Monstrorum)
Gloon Figurine
Possessing a figurine, statuette or idol of Gloon and touching it with bare hands will curse full-blooded humans with strange nightmare visions of sunken Atlantis and Gloon's ruined temple, carved from solid rock in a valley where a river once ran before the continent was submerged, the temple lit from within by some strange luminescence, with the ghastly dancing forms of Gloon's Deep One worshipers silhouetted against the windows and doorways. ("The Temple")
Cults
The cult of Gloon may typically consist of Deep Ones and their human collaborators and hybrids, along with Servants of Gloon and worship of Gloon may appear side-by-side with worship of "Father" Dagon, "Mother" Hydra, and Cthulhu, with some details appearing in the Cthäat Aquadingen, The Pnakotic Fragments, and in other tomes associated with Atlantis and water demons and cults.
Quotes
- "Our men searched him for souvenirs, and found in his coat pocket a very odd bit of ivory carved to represent a youth's head crowned with laurel.... I could not forget the youthful, beautiful head with its leafy crown, though I am not by nature an artist." - HPL "The Temple"
Associated Mythos Elements
- artifact: Gloon Figurine
- tome: Cthäat Aquadingen
- races:
- locations:
- cult: (see above)
Rumors and Speculation
- Gloon may be a anthropomorphic, conventionalized representation of Dagon/Cthulhu carved by Atlantean artisans in a form less disconcerting to human worshipers of the Cthulhu cult, portraying Cthulhu and its Deep One priests as a beautiful male, human youth, to reassure those unfortunate human women chosen as "sea brides" for "Dagon", in much the same way that Gloon's female counterpart is conventionalized as a beautiful mermaid for the comfort of human men who are to marry sea-maidens of the Deep Ones.
- The Comte d'Erlette insisted in his infamous Cultes des Goules that Gloon was a "water elemental", and systematically traced relationships and conflicts between Gloon and other supposed "elemental spirits" in elaborate family trees that may contain at least as much fantasy as accurate historical information.
Appearances
- "The Temple" (as unnamed ivory carving)
- Cthulhu Now
- Malleus Monstrorum
