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^Ok now makes more sense.
Multiple stories have mentioned The Mayan Gods being a-part of the H.P. Lovecraft Lore, and in this one story -The Electric Executioner- This man, presumably a Dreamer, is confident in comparing himself to The Top Tiers of The Mayan Hierarchy like Quetzalcoatl, and even implies he might have power that may even surpass them, yet when talking about Gods like Cthulhu he acts humble and even kinda frightened, and even acts as he worships them.
So, Cthulhu very well may be stronger than The Mayan Gods.
Now being stronger than Dreamers and The Mayan Gods most likely is not enough for Cthulhu to be a big enough threat towards someone like Hirudegarn, but is something impressive for Cthulhu.
I know the mayan gods existed, i never argued that, I am just looking for the guy being a dreamer who thinks he is equal to them but fears cthulu.
Curse of a yig is a different story from the mound. I believe the mound was a random archaelogist and the curse of a yig and electrocutioners was about a family /couple I don't think they were dreamers either
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ee.aspx
I rushed through this so I most likely missed the part of the story where the man is comparing himself to the Mayan Gods, but I did find the part where he seems to be calling out Cthulhu’s and others name and very worshipping way and also seems to be frightened well doing so. He talks about Mayan Gods in honour and respect, but talks about beings like Cthulhu in fear and worship.
So I do think this is confirming beings like Cthulhu to be stronger than Gods like Quetzalcoatl.
^yeah I', pretty sure in the story the railway guy isn't a dreamer or has superpowers. nor does maxmillian or the feldon guy, they all seem normal humans. the protag was a regular human scared of feldon, who is just an insane inventor.
Yeah I was mistaken about the dude being a dreamer. That’s on me.
But he does seem to have extensive knowledge about The Mayan Gods and The Great Old Ones, he seems to have visions about these deities.
He also seems to honour The Mayan Gods like Quetzalcoatl but has fear towards beings like Cthulhu. He speaks about The Mayan Gods in a regard that doesn’t seem fearful, but chants out names like Cthulhu in a fearful worshipping way.
I don't think feldon is really trying to powerscale them, he worships both, his wants humanity to be massacred before the aztec gods(Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopotchli.) return and worships the cthulu deities, he worships both group of gods, I don't think he was trying to imply they were superior to each other/
Plus remember, he is a Literally insane serial killing scientist/witch doctor.....He might not be the best narrator anyway
I mean… it makes sense he’s crazy, whoever worships Cthulhu is generally insane, that’s just a trope Lovecraft seems to do.
Yeah the cthulu cultist in general are loons, it;s why you don't believe em. his followers in the first book, thought he would easily take over the world
Then a steamboat stopped him
Tho this is the only story where Cthulhu is directly mentioned with The Mayan Gods, other stories mention both in the same same story just not the same scenes, and usually the great olds ones are rarely compared to the Earth Gods and just seen as these immensely powerful beings descended from the Outer Gods who came to Earth to conquer it for whatever reason.
So from my r search, the only story that seems to directly compare Cthulhu to Quetzalcoatl is The Electric Executioner Story, every other story is just vague comparisons, generally talk about the earth gods, or just crazy people worshipping some random alien god with a squid head.
What do you think?