Editing Cthulhu (section)

==Description==
In "[[The Call of Cthulhu]]", H. P. Lovecraft describes a statue of Cthulhu as: "A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."<ref name="call">[[s:The Call of Cthulhu]]</ref> A carving of Cthulhu is described thus: "It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a [[dragon]], and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, [[tentacle]]d head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary [[wings]]."<ref name="call" /> 

Johansen in The Call of Cthulhu states that "The Thing cannot be described—there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled." Cthulhu is described again shortly thereafter as a "mountainous monstrosity". His age is described to be at least "vigintillions of years".<ref>{{Cite web |title="The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft |url=https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.hplovecraft.com}}</ref> He is also said to have cast spells which preserved the Great Old Ones until their reawakening.

Cthulhu is said to resemble a green octopus, dragon, and a human caricature, hundreds of meters tall, with webbed, human-looking arms and legs and a pair of rudimentary wings on its back.<ref name="call" /> Its head is depicted as similar to the entirety of a [[gigantic octopus]], with an unknown number of tentacles surrounding its supposed mouth.