Monday, January 24, 2022

Are You An … Enslaved God?

An advertisement from the April 1934 issue of Weird Tales:

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  1. Well no, not really, but I'm playing along for the sake of the mortals around me. Very damaging to their sanity if you're impolite enough to unveil your true nature around them. Not great for the structure of spacetime either. This plane is so fragile.

    I confess even my deific powers leave me baffled as to why the ad is portraying what appears to be a shackled bus driver, though. Was municipal transportation in 1930s California heavily dependent on the involuntary service of supernatural entities or something? I spent that decade surfing the heliopause with my omnipresence and omniscience toggled off, so I may have missed something.

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  2. Not for nothing but, the Rosicrucian order is still alive and well in San Jose, CA to this day.

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  3. If you ever get a chance to visit their Egyptian Museum in San Jose, it's worth seeing. Trippy... with some dodgy history... but impressive.

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    1. 1900s San Jose is ripe for CoC setting. Between this, Sarah Winchester, and Mary Hayes Chynoweth you have a bunch of great sources material.

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    2. The early 1900s as a whole is an ideal CoC setting. It's amazing how much weird stuff was going on all over the place at the time.

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  4. Nope. As St. Athanasius famously said, "God became man so that man might become God."

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    1. Yes. But this ad is yet more evidence for the fact that the Serpent changes the packaging, but the core of the lie has remained constant since that day in the Garden.

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    2. But if we strictly consider the text of Genesis, did the serpent lie?

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  5. Sad (for me) news: I'm not a god.
    Happy news: I'm not a slave. :)

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