Episode 191: Mythos Deities: Nodens (Long Cut)

Episode 191: Mythos Deities: Nodens

This is the longer unedited version of the episode for backers only.

https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/09/15/mythos-deities-nodens/

We’re back and we’re poking around this here abyss. Someone told us we could find Nodens down here. It’s not pleasant work looking for him, however. The cold has left us quite hoary and there are endless bloody nightgaunts flapping around and getting in the way. Maybe we should have checked that other site on the Welsh border instead. Oh well. We’ll just have to write our complaints on some lead tablets and toss them into the deep. We’re sure Nodens has nothing better to do than read them.

This is the latest instalment in our ongoing series about the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos. Previous subjects include Dagon, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep and Azathoth. This time, we’re delving deep into the abyss to learn about hoary Nodens, charting his progress from obscure Celtic deity to the public face of the Elder Gods.

Once again, the lockdown means we recorded this episode remotely. We think we’re getting the hang of this.

Links

Things we mention in this episode include:

Nodens in Myth

• The Nodens Sandwich Shop
• Nodens
• Dagon, Bast(et) and Hypnos
• Lydney Park
• “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen
• Roman curse tablets
• Incubatio
• Cthulhu Invictus
• Creator of Middle-Earth documentary
• JRR Tolkein’s 1932 essay, “The Name Nodens”
• Nuadu
• Corum series by Michael Moorcock
• The Hand and Eye of Vecna
• Celtic Folklore by John Rhys
• Ludgate
• Gwynn ap Nudd
• Tylwyth Teg
• The Wild Hunt
• Crypt of Cthulhu issue 87

Nodens in Call of Cthulhu

• Kingsport: The City in the Mist
• The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
• Masks of Nyarlathotep
• Malleus Monstrorum
• Nightside of Eden by Kenneth Grant
• Choronzon
• Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Nodens in Lovecraft

• “The Strange High House in the Mist” by HP Lovecraft
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by HP Lovecraft
• “The Terrible Old Man” by HP Lovecraft
• “The Festival” by HP Lovecraft
• The House of the Worm by Gary Myers
• Twice Dead Things by AA Attanasio
• The Private Life of Elder Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Keris McDonald and Adam Gauntlett
• “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

Final Lockdown Special

With lockdown easing around the world, we are suspending our run of backer specials. Do check out last week’s final episode about television if you haven’t done so already. Backing us at any level will grant you instant access to this episode and the entire back catalogue.

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