Cthulhu Cthursday: From Cthulhu to Cloning

H.P. Lovecraft: founding father of paleovisitology? ^* I'll just jump to the conclusion as a quote, because it's just so priceless:

Thus we have seen how the fictional world of H.P. Lovecraft gave rise to alternative archaeology, ancient astronauts and new religions. We have also seen that each of these phenomena produced unforseen consequences affecting life today. From Egyptology to human cloning, Great Cthulhu still stalks the vistas of the human mind, though he has vanished from direct sight and cloaked himself in the guise of science. What began as fiction has become in the minds of many incontrovertible fact with consequences far beyond the make-believe horrors of Lovecraft's fiction.

That emphasized passage? If I can ever get my new religion up and running — an ultra-fundamentalist Church of R'lyeh that believes in Cthulhu and denies evolution — I'm going to use that as an opening salvo in my debate against Richard Dawkins. Cthulhu would eat your precious Flying Spaghetti Monster, Dick.

From Cthulhu to Cloning [Lost Civilizations Uncovered]

* - You know, the 'study' of extraterrestrials that visited ancient civilizations, like the Egyptians, giving our savage forebearers some architectural tips on how to build big piles