Non-fictional Elements
The Cthulhu Mythos incorporates many historical, astronomical, and mythological elements from the real world.
- Aldebaran, a star
- Bast, cat goddess of ancient Egypt
- Book of Dzyan
- Celaeno, a star in the Pleiades
- Dagon, the Mesopotamian fish god of vegetation and fertility
- John Dee, a historical person
- Fomalhaut, a star
- Giant Penguin, although these ones are evolved albino versions
- H. P. Lovecraft, as himself
- Hypnos, the god of sleep in Greek mythology
- Irem, City of Pillars, a legendary buried city from Islamic mythology (possibly the lost city of Ubar)
- Lemuria, a fabled land bridge, but a lost continent in the mythos
- Nodens, the Hunter, a Celtic deity worshipped in ancient Britain
- Olaus Wormius, Danish antiquary cited as translator of the Necronomicon
- Pluto, identified by Lovecraft as Yuggoth
- Ponape, an island
- The Severn Valley, in England
- Tunguska, in Siberia
- The Voynich Manuscript
- Wendigo, borrowed from Native American mythology
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