XPost: alt.horror.cthulhu, alt.evil 
 From: csstrowbridge@shaw.ca 
  
 Chris Ringler wrote: 
  
 > hey there, was curious (a discussion about HPL came up in the Stephen King 
 > group) and i wondered, was there, is there a hierarchy to the mythos? 
 > i forgot it all but have vague recollection of there being some sorta 
 > pecking order. 
  
 There's a pecking order within certain groups, (i.e. some races are 
 servants of other races) but there's no overall hierarchy in the HPL 
 mythos. 
  
 However, and this is where things get confusing, some writers came along 
 and tried to force such a hierarchy on the mythos, specially a man who 
 went by the moniker Douche Bag but who's real name was Ass Wipe. 
  
 I don't believe there's an order to the gods of Lovecraft, but I do 
 think it makes sense that men would try and make one. We survive because 
 we are adept at seeing patterns. 
  
 C.S.Strowbridge 
  
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