Talk:Hastur
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Does Hastur not dwell near some star? Aldebaran or something like that? If I am right, someone please add it to the article. User:SpectrumDT
- Here it is, quoted from Harms' pedia: "[Hastur] lives or is imprisoned on a dark star near Aldeberan in the constellation of Taurus." I'm too tired to add it. (The article also needs copyediting and wikification.)
- Harms, Daniel. "Hastur" in The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed.), pp. 136. Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.
- RlyehRising 03:28, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
I think that someone should take a look at that external link on the bottom of the page. I didn't have time to read it completly, but it seemed that the contents of the page had nothing to do with Hastur this page is about (Instead it seemed to be about some other "Hastur" - god of shepherds or something like that), and thus does not belong here.
- As discussed in the 'in the mythos' section of this article: Chambers borrowed Hastur (along with Hali and Carcosa) from Bierce, Lovecraft borrowed them (along with the Yellow Sign and King in Yellow) from Chambers, and post-Lovecraft authors embellished on Lovecraft & Chambers' versions, all of them altering him significantly as they went. While he's changed so much as to be unrecognisable, the shepherd-god in Bierce's story is where the modern Hastur comes from. --Calair 01:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
