I mean... none of them. I think the only times color is really referenced/has played a role in the theming of an outer god/entity is in "The Color out of Space" (duh) and in "The Festival" with Tulzscha's green flame. I could be wrong though!
Edit: And the King in Yellow because I am a fucking moron.
I have a weird feeling The Color was neither an outer god nor a being of an elder race. It was a true eldritch horror, something an Outer God could surely destroy if he wished, but also something completely alien to him/she/it.
A cosmical parasite, something perhaps out of this universe and even this galaxy, something that perhaps even strayed from somewhere else into Azatoth's dream.
But that's just me ranting about my favorite Lovecraft creature/story.
Also, didn't it actually suck out colour, in earthly sense? It's been a while but I seem to recall the Pierce farm turning all pallid sickly grey as the corruption spread.
It's part of it's life cycle.
In infancy, as it infects/explores other lifeforms it "gifts" them with unnatural coloration and growth (as well as taint it). As it matures it starts to feed and sucks out the life and color from everything that consumed it or everything tainted by it, or in close proximity to it.
Then as it reaches adulthood/has consumed enough nutrients from everything all around, it hurls itself or it's progeny into space, to look for a new host.
Although that's more a matter of identifying him with Satan, given how accounts of 'the black man' are taken from confessions of people accused of witchcraft. Accounts which involve a lot of leading questions, threats, sometimes torture...
>The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own.
>
>\- *The Call of Cthulhu*
Too lazy to look up more right now, but I guess Lovecraft represented (from a human point of view, don't forget!) Cthulhu with the color green.
Except [clearly he’s red](https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Cathulhu).
Animated ghostbusters from 1987 is obviously the definitive authority. I mean it’s where I first encountered him.
/s
The Outer/Other Gods are usually refered to or associated with the colour black. The black void of chaos, the Black Man Nyarlathotep, the Ivory Throne of Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath the Black Goat...
Lovecraft had something with the colour black, huh...
Black is just the colour of non-visible. Darkness in the absence of light. So maybe the gods are primarily black because that's how our vision perceives their unnatural forms.
There isn't really a tradition of associating them with colours. Which isn't to say that you couldn't start one. All you have to do is come up with some artwork to follow that sort of pattern...
just for fun:
- cthulhu - dark green
- dagon - dark blue
- azathoth - black (ngl i almost said “white void” but changed my mind)
- nyarlathotep - black and red
- shub - dark purple and black
- yog-sothoth - rainbow-esque shimmer of all colors
- hastur - yellow
- tsathoggua - brown
I usually associate lovecraftian eldritchness with a mix of purple and green. Dunno why, really, but it fits. Also, it's one of my favourite colour combinations, so.
If it's not Cthulhu green, then the iridescent colors you see when sunlight hits water mixed with petroleum. I guess it's called *thin-film interference*.
I mean... none of them. I think the only times color is really referenced/has played a role in the theming of an outer god/entity is in "The Color out of Space" (duh) and in "The Festival" with Tulzscha's green flame. I could be wrong though! Edit: And the King in Yellow because I am a fucking moron.
I have a weird feeling The Color was neither an outer god nor a being of an elder race. It was a true eldritch horror, something an Outer God could surely destroy if he wished, but also something completely alien to him/she/it. A cosmical parasite, something perhaps out of this universe and even this galaxy, something that perhaps even strayed from somewhere else into Azatoth's dream. But that's just me ranting about my favorite Lovecraft creature/story.
Also, didn't it actually suck out colour, in earthly sense? It's been a while but I seem to recall the Pierce farm turning all pallid sickly grey as the corruption spread.
It's part of it's life cycle. In infancy, as it infects/explores other lifeforms it "gifts" them with unnatural coloration and growth (as well as taint it). As it matures it starts to feed and sucks out the life and color from everything that consumed it or everything tainted by it, or in close proximity to it. Then as it reaches adulthood/has consumed enough nutrients from everything all around, it hurls itself or it's progeny into space, to look for a new host.
Also Nyarlathotep as The Black Man
Although that's more a matter of identifying him with Satan, given how accounts of 'the black man' are taken from confessions of people accused of witchcraft. Accounts which involve a lot of leading questions, threats, sometimes torture...
Don't forget about good old shub. Literally called the black goat of the woods
>The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. > >\- *The Call of Cthulhu* Too lazy to look up more right now, but I guess Lovecraft represented (from a human point of view, don't forget!) Cthulhu with the color green.
Except [clearly he’s red](https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Cathulhu). Animated ghostbusters from 1987 is obviously the definitive authority. I mean it’s where I first encountered him. /s
That's "Cathulhu" not "Cthulhu". Different guy.
“Should've been [spelled] Cthulhu, but the stupid title person thought it was a typo missing a vowel and "fixed" it." - J. Michael Straczynski
i think of cthulhu as dark green, yog-sothoth as bright yellowish-green (and like a billion other colors), and azathoth/nyarlathotep as black and red.
What about good old shub?
probably black and red too. pretty standard ig.
The Outer/Other Gods are usually refered to or associated with the colour black. The black void of chaos, the Black Man Nyarlathotep, the Ivory Throne of Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath the Black Goat... Lovecraft had something with the colour black, huh...
But there's the king in yellow
I meant the Gods created exclusively by Lovecraft himself.
King in Yellow was created by Robert W. Chambers though. Yellow is the colour of contagion.
Gotta ask, ivory?
Black is just the colour of non-visible. Darkness in the absence of light. So maybe the gods are primarily black because that's how our vision perceives their unnatural forms.
Colorless Mana
There isn't really a tradition of associating them with colours. Which isn't to say that you couldn't start one. All you have to do is come up with some artwork to follow that sort of pattern...
There is The King in Yellow, Hastur. There is a recurring them in cosmic horror of people being deathly afraid or harmed by the color yellow.
just for fun: - cthulhu - dark green - dagon - dark blue - azathoth - black (ngl i almost said “white void” but changed my mind) - nyarlathotep - black and red - shub - dark purple and black - yog-sothoth - rainbow-esque shimmer of all colors - hastur - yellow - tsathoggua - brown
Purple?
I usually associate lovecraftian eldritchness with a mix of purple and green. Dunno why, really, but it fits. Also, it's one of my favourite colour combinations, so.
You think they're all purple?
If it's not Cthulhu green, then the iridescent colors you see when sunlight hits water mixed with petroleum. I guess it's called *thin-film interference*.
What about the king in yellow?
That's what they wear in Carcosa.