^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.

Also a funny thing about the lore behind The Great Old Ones is that when they came to earth their were other species there before them, but all were they billions of years before humanity, and The Great Old Ones went to war with beings called The Elder Things, and The People of Atlantis.

And the funny part about this story is, The Great Old Ones technically lost this war. They were always fought backed by the Elder Things cause they had more advance magic and technology, forcing Cthulhu’s kin to pretty much make with peace with The Elder Things and leave each other alone, and presumably The People of Atlantis got help from their Gods, which allowed them to sink the Island of Mu, where the city of R'lyeh is located, during this Cthulhu placed a spell on the city, putting his kin in a deep slumber, and also apparently sinking Atlantis.

Funny part: The Great Old One’s came to earth, fought a war with two other species for the Planet, and pretty much ended up losing. Which is kinda funny.

I think the mayan gods aren't really that real in the story tbh, it's usually said by a bunch of weirdos, or just background talk about the native area'(usually latin america's ) previous religions. they themselves don't actually appear

Plus Yig(the father of serpent) is implied to be Quetzalcoatl the mayan god, In one story he apparently is a prototype of the god so it;s probably another case of budda and other beings being outer gods in disguise

I mean half the gods named in the story hardly appear if at all, yet we do know they exist.