The Great Race of Yith - (Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos)

Today we are once again taking a look at the Cthulhu mythos and one of its alien species, The Great Race of Yith.
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[@MythologyFictionExplained]

So I have some merch out that actually relates to the channel this time lol. I also have a really cool cerberus design coming soon! teespring.com/en-GB/stores/mythology-fiction-explained

[@DaniMartVtbr]

I think this video should be a bit longer. They're too cool and too new, yet come from old material that most wouldn't know anything about? I'm imagining that maybe this is something that "Rick & Morty" or "Doctor Who" might eventually joke about. Regardless, there should be further stories to tell of these librarian Yith?

[@ishansharma4167]

Best way to reach you?

[@ScooBdont]

I’m remembering this of the top of my head so I’m possibly mistaken but was it Algernon Blackwood (coolest name ever) that used the yithians in a story where a man camping finds a strange stone that pulses light when he stares at it and when he didn’t stop looking into it he was pulled in and switched bodies with a Yithian? He wakes up on a strange, distance planet in an alien body.

[@tommond4852]

" under the desert of Australia" looks outside " oh... lovely"

[@TheMrEcks]

just "Outback", huh?

[@midimusicforever]

Sleep well ;)

[@harshitmadhav9907]

I’d expect nothing less from australia

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

_(looks out on arboreal forest)_ “Phew. Wait. The fuck is that?!”

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

@@harshitmadhav9907 No shit right? When you have to teach your kids to check everywhere for something that can, 100% up and _kill_ you whenever it wants to, you might want to look for a new place to live.

[@bugjams]

*Sees "Great Race of Yiff"* *Rubs eyes* "Great Race of Yith" Oh thank god.

[@jcb3883]

Yeeeeet

[@caladbolg8666]

Haha read it the same way first time

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

Somewhere out there a flying polyp is yiffing a yith behind a dumpster at the local FurCon.

[@GoldieTamamo]

I assure you, we're watching with the worst of intentions.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

​@@BigMikeMcBastard That doesn't make any sense, both races reproduce through spores, and have always been at war...oh, you were just trying to make a bad joke? Well, it was very bad.

[@ScionStorm1]

Professor Yithian: "You must complete the Pokedex of the universe."

[@mrnobody6447]

Gotta transfer all!

[@priyanshugoel3030]

Smell ya later. Oh will remember to erase your memories this time.

[@thewildcolonialboy8034]

Fungi of Yuggoth, I choose you!

[@jacopoarmini7889]

"transporting your knowledge through time and space"... That's one damn convenient ability, I'd like to know what condition forced them to evolve in such a way.

[@vampyruslupus9950]

its not exactly an ability, its more likely just something they have the technology to pull off. they probably do it because they learned some things they werent supposed to know, and ended up being hunted by the Crawling Chaos. so they developed a way to transport their minds through time and space, thereby preserving their race and their knowledge. and then they found Earth. and you know what the punchline is? they led the Crawling Chaos right to us.

[@rynegreen7902]

A part of hp philosophy is man understanding of the universe is like the bacteria understanding of the human, it’s something we never will understand and our understanding is meaningless to it

[@verrellgradysutanto4345]

might be , in the beginning they are just human like us .... then discover a transcendence technolgy , and absorb it into daily life

[@zodofkrypton4440]

@@vampyruslupus9950 I beg to disagree. Yes they are advanced and hold the knowledge with each transfer but there are a couple of things. 1) Lovecraft likes to make it so we literally can't understand writing them so maybe we can. 2) not all planets have the same material. If it was they would need items with the same properties on every planet which is unlikely. Mind you I haven't actually read the stories containing the yith yet so I am going based on what I have read outside of that and I may be severely wrong. The upside to Lovecraft is we might both be right and it might be a combination of there species and technology that allow them to do it and without one the other can't do it.

[@vampyruslupus9950]

@Paul Crothers. i find myself compelled to agree with you on a couple points. we both might be totally wrong or we both might be half right. and we really cant understand the entirety of Lovecrafts mythos, or maybe we arent meant to understand and we're all just wasting our time. either way i still think my theory holds up for a few reasons. its obvious that the Yith have a highly evolved mental capacity, allowing them to memorize practically anything. its also possible that a strong mental will power would allow their minds to survive separate from their bodies and souls, allowing them to do pretty much anything, including inhabit hosts. and if they had gathered enough knowledge from their current hosts before travelling to Earth, they would have known everything there was to know about Earthen tech and resources without really having to do anything themselves. As for creating the original technology that would allow such migrations, its not impossible that there could be another planet with similar elements and resources floating around out there somewhere. and destroying races and planets seems to be something the Crawling Chaos is quite good at, as told by HPL. then again like you said we're probably both wrong

[@sarahleonard7309]

OK, just read this one. If I understood it correctly, they were not generally telepathic. They had machines that allowed them to swap their minds with other creatures (or even their own race from different eras), but they couldn't do it on their own. They also actually spoke the languages of other races to communicate with them whenever they could, or used machines that translated aloud for them.

[@CJM-rg5rt]

Are you sure you aren't mixing them with the fungi from yuggoth?

[@MontaguStudios]

The Yith played a huge role in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth on original Xbox and PC. It didn't make sense to me at first as I was not familiar with this particular Lovecraft creature but after watching your video, it now makes perfect sense. I encourage all Lovecraft fans to play the 2005 game.

[@robbabcock_]

The Shadow Out of Time and At the Mountains of Madness are among my favorite works of Lovecraft! Kind of intertwined as well. I tend to think the "true" or original bodies of the Yith are irrelevant; they're almost disembodied consciousnesses that don't seem bound to any particular form simply inhabiting any suitable beings.

[@chumaktv5386]

Yes! Both of those show us races that aren’t as unfathomable and sinister, just super advanced and very different from us. Makes it seem to me that those 2 species would probably be the ones to try to make a contact with

[@GRasputin91]

They're very intertwined. Professor Dyer appears in both of them. I like to think that the unnamed evil in MoM might have also been the Polyps. Both Yithians and Elder Things hesitate to even hint at them and the main character has to infer this info from vague clues that he gathers over a long period of time.

[@jarimartin5648]

Man at work: "I come from a land down under" The Yith: "No you don't"

[@josephlytle1436]

"How would I be able to convince anybody that doom is approaching? For I know now, beyond any doubt that an ancient evil is awaiting to arise, and pray on an unsuspecting humanity. All too truly, there lies upon this world of man, a mocking, and terrible shadow out of time"

[@nurgle333]

Gives me goosebumps

[@diegos7337]

This are such an interesting species. They are like the Universe Librarians. Collecting history of all races in the Universe.

[@spaceangelmewtwo9074]

So I was listening to these in a playlist while I was doing something else, and I heard it at first as "The Great Race of Yiff" and thought, "Great, the furries took over the world and declared themselves the master race or something."

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

No, no racist ideologies, but we are great! XD

[@Alexanderiii]

I definitely saw a Yithian in the Futurama episode A Bicylops Built for Two as one of Alcazar's wives.

[@sojoboscribe1342]

Yes, you did.

[@niclasthomsen7127]

@@sojoboscribe1342 Yes!

[@elroma7712]

Yup

[@mrnobody6447]

Damn I missed it.

[@thriddoctor]

I love how one of them turned up in Futurama . In their first form i think they may have resembled mile long tweed otters that looked askance at priests.

[@jeffreysommer3292]

I was always very fond of them. Intergalactic historians with Mesozoic balloon-rides? Sign me up!

[@RPGGamer]

One of my favourite of the Cthulhu Mythos, terrible and horrific to encounter, the Yithians are alien rather than monstrous, just uncaring of humans and with their own aims and goals. Makes them wonderful to use in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

[@nickmanzo8459]

RPGGamer I recently had one possess Winston Churchill to try and figure out what’s happening with their ancient rocket technology being dug up, giving humans that tech too early.

[@jrockoclock7088]

They're also so doofy looking that they're kind of cute, especially the early original art of them

[@Arsenal.N.I7242]

The Shadow out of time is one of Lovecraft's best story's. It must of blew ppls minds when it came out in pulp magazine's.

[@glensettle]

My absolute favorite HPL story. The Great Race are a fascinating creation.

[@jachellecumberbatch1310]

Reaaaalllyy love the new opening and logo for your channel. You seem to really do your research when it comes to the different mythologies and you explore the various mythologies of different cultures instead of just sticking to one. The diversity on your chanel is really cool. When it comes to Mythology I am always interested. You are really doing a good job and your channel definitely deserves to be as successful as it is with all the hardwork you put in. I wish you much more success in the future. God bless.☺😊

[@lulanim5444]

I'm usually a subscriber that never comments, but I just would like to thank you for making such an amazing channel! Not many KZbinrs put so much love into their craft. Your videos are always well edited and researched, with the perfect amount of opinion / analyses versus fact. I have been watching for months, maybe even close to a year now, and your videos have given me so much more knowledge and interest in different types of mythology. I even checked out an anthology of Lovecraft's greatest stories from my local library because of this Cthulhu Mythos series! Keep doing what you're doing, because it's exactly right!

[@samualwilliamson369]

Cthulhu Resurrected chant can bring back anyone or just make you full of life and laugh maniacally

[@SirVyre]

What the Yith would look like... whatever race they're inhabiting. To me they sound like a race that transcends the flesh, but prefers certain weird forms with elongated bodys and numerous arms/legs. It wouldn't surprise me to learn they were originally sentient trees that yearned to move, because trees are what I think of when their bodies are described.

[@candiigurl7893]

That new intro gets me every time. 👍

[@CymonTempler]

Reminds me of the opening of Masterpiece Theatre kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKCqaa2Cgrx9lbs

[@sankturban291]

Thanks for this series. Lovecraft had a fantastic imagination.

[@mansoori6650]

Sankt Urban nah he is a stealer of ideas, lovecraft is based of the necromanicon

[@marsneedstowels]

@@mansoori6650 You think the necronomicon is real and also hate people who waste water. You are a hidden gem of humanity.

[@richiepunx]

Love your work. I'm a huge fan of Lovecraft and its fantastic to have everything compiled so neatly.

[@zaigsy]

My great love for mythology and fiction was born here in this channel. I thank you.

[@freewilliam93]

Ive been having such an up and down weekend, but the way you said paws and clawes was soooo adorabubbles!

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

"The last appendage is described as being 4 red trumpets, and I'm not exactly sure what they're meant to be!" I know what it's supposed to be! "The Yith are described as having no sexes..." I DON'T know what it's supposed to be!

[@nelsonvenema3614]

It could be where they receive and create pollen. So it might be there special place

[@butitsureisfun460]

Nelson Venema I’ve always assumed those were their mouths. If not then how do they eat?

[@nelsonvenema3614]

@@butitsureisfun460 they're Aldrich things, why should the need to eat.

[@butitsureisfun460]

Nelson Venema Aldritch? Did you mean “eldritch”? Also, I’m not sure if you understand Cthulhu Mythos. Nothing that happens in any of Lovecraft’s stories is actually supernatural. All of the “magic” we see is actually alien technology that is advanced beyond human understanding. So yes, the Yithians and the conical species they possessed would need something to eat with because they were still based on the laws of the natural universe.

[@nelsonvenema3614]

@@butitsureisfun460 I did indeed mean eldritch. Most of the Lovecraft gods seem to be beyond our understanding. Still natural, but beyond us. To be fair I never read any of the books, so what do I know

[@stormaggeden]

I really like this series. Thank you for making it. Actually the first episode about Cthulhu is what got me started on my obsession with the Cthulhu mythos and stories. And I just wanted to say thank you for leading me down that rabbit hole into the cosmic unknown.

[@trymbruset3868]

A shadow out of time is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, I simply did not expect what I got to read. Lovely video.

[@Max_Le_Groom]

Awesome stuff, love all things Lovecraft.

[@bingerz237]

When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next designed; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, ...

[@stanleyjedrzejczyk2966]

@@bingerz237 Pleeeeaaase finish H.P's poem!

[@hennoxxx]

@@stanleyjedrzejczyk2966 .. Because its racist like you are?

[@nocturne.nocturnal]

@@bingerz237 bro...

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

I find them to be quite interesting as well, and I can't help but find it so facanating and curious by there desire to collect knowledge of different species from across the cosmos. I really think though that there true forms is something rather unexplainable and not from our world (like pretty much all of Lovecraft's creatures and deities lol). But I quite like that we will never really truly know. :)

[@mendozax0345]

god,i just love that you have improve your videos,keep it up!

[@Aerith501]

When i saw "the arrival" at the cinema, the only thing i could picture in my mind was the great race of yith

[@eightball6219]

Thoughts on the Yith? *PURGE THE ALIEN*

[@nurgle333]

Username checks out

[@Heavy2deep]

Magnificent! Love the new intro! Masterful work! As you find time in your leisure please do as the esteemed honor of you and your playlist entitled 11:11. We know you will find it at Value, at least entertaining. Again grateful for your craftsmanship

[@joelbell6275]

With a few adjustments, the Yithians would make excellent Pokémon! lol

[@Zanable06]

Your voice its like a asmr mythology

[@Luneland]

This is the first video I see of this channel and I liked it! Suscribed! 👍👍👍

[@DaveLennonCopeland]

The Yithians had no true physical form, but took up residence in whatever bodies they desired. The Great Race's history begins on the world of Yith; though this was not their world of origin, the Yithians eliminated all information in their archives about their history before migrating, for reasons which remain a mystery... From, The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (second edition) by Daniel Harms. Excellent video; thanks... :)

[@Werewolf914]

I really need to read more Lovecraft books, there are so many interesting Creatures that he came up with.

[@Seinghesa]

Always thought there should be more to the Yith, probably a good idea for a book there somewhere. Love the subject matter keep it coming brother!

[@bleach3413]

Those gosh darn yithians take bodies from hard working earthling 😂

[@damiendeath2430]

They Takin Our Jobs... euh BODIES ! :) (south park refrence for the win :D)

[@17Watman]

Damn Illegal Aliens!!

[@stoffel5423]

@RDS 7 Ta ter buurrr!

[@daddyaf945]

These are some of my favorite races along with the elder things and the Mi-go

[@ZGuy0fSci]

*"Hey Kids, Wanna Yith??"* (rip) XD was what came to mind, lolz

[@seldomstudios6351]

Why *yith* I do HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[@MowMan7]

This hurt to read

[@19Greenhelle]

You should do an in-depth video either about the death/resurrection stories of Dionysus or the origins of Asclepius. I read about both briefly in a book and would love to hear more. Thanks for your awesome videos!

[@empresstwotails5851]

The library thing reminds me of the owl in Avatar the Last Airbender. And they also dealt with his information falling into the wrong hands.

[@milkultraviolence7808]

i just love your intro man

[@NKA23]

I remember reading about the Great Race of Yith for the first time in my mid 20s. It really creeped me out, as I was (and still am) pretty sure that I've had several dreams about creatures looking like that during my childhood, long before I ever heard anything about H.P.Lovecraft.

[@Arsenal.N.I7242]

Love the cthulhu mythos work you are doing thumb's up man. Do you have plans of doing some of Lovecraft's dream cycle story's like the dream quest of unknown kadath.

[@Stormkrow280]

I’m pretty sure the great race of yith is mentioned, though not by name, in the story “the challenge from beyond” because the story mentions TWO races that project their minds across space and time, though one does so naturally while the other does so artificially through cubs shot out in all directions of their home planet that if looked at would trap the mind and send it back to be interrogated

[@midimusicforever]

Good summary

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thanks for the vid sir.

[@chrisberatis2612]

Excellent video can you please do a video on Kukurihime.

[@jamiebraswell5520]

I found The Shadow Out of Time a real chore to get through, much like At the Mountains of Madness. Both stories are held in such high regard and I looked forward to reading them as I read Lovecraft's complete fiction. Both were just difficult and unsatisfying reads for me, definitely not my favorites.

[@siradameldmerdash]

Coolest intro ever Edit: and coolest&best mythology explainer

[@ChurchofCthulhu]

Excellent!

[@tombkeeper1397]

The notion of a library detailing information from across the universe over the course of million of years has been done before. The most famous examples of this in Fiction is through Brainiac in the DC universe where he collects the most advanced city of every sentient race before blowing up their world. Another example of this, and a direct nod to Cthulhu himself are the Reapers from the Mass Effect Trilogy which are living Libraries of the species they are composed of. I will give the Yithians the credit for being a source for this troupe and I believe we can date every example in fiction to Lovcraft's creation of the Yith themselves. Can't wait for more of the Month of October!

[@Larik51]

This really reminds me of Tralfamadorians... Could it be that the great race of Yith and Tralmamadorians are the same thing?

[@astraldaniel5253]

There's a book with a symbol from star wars on it at 0:10

[@brandyrose9997]

Great video = new subscriber 👍

[@maxvp2696]

Please Do the colour out of space

[@jamcalx]

I heard Yithian Fashion is all the rage this time of year.

[@catxanax]

Love the new intro

[@JohnDoe-ob5jj]

I'm listening to Shadow out of Time now. The beginning part where it talks about his secondary personality living a life of its own reminds me of F. W. H. Myers' Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death.

[@0Metatron]

Definitely one of the most intriguing races from the mythos As usual with Lovecraft it left me wanting to know more, more, mooooore 😂

[@NeptoKiSam]

I didn't know much about them before. Once I dreamt I was talking to a Yith about the planet, its evolution and dimensions. When I woke up, I was wondering if I didn't see a creature like this in a game (Call of Cthulhu xbox360). I looked about it and decided to buy the novel. The mind switch and all knowledge was very interesting. Thanks to this dream that made me discover them. It added an interesting perspective about altered state of consciousness.

[@SimonMoon5]

To me, the strangest thing about the Great Race of Yith is that their earthly prehistoric bodies are apparently just some race that was already on Earth at that time. Other bizarre monsters in Lovecraft's stories are explicitly alien beings or gods, but these weird cone-shaped creatures are not given any special origin other than the idea that they were a primitive race already on Earth. So... they evolved on Earth? What did they evolve from? I find it hard to imagine that they evolved naturally on Earth as they are so unlike any other creature on the planet.

[@Lavis-ck8dw]

There's a Manga/japanese comic based on "Shadow out of Time" H.P lovecraft , and its really coll you should try to Read it.

[@desdinovaincarnate9703]

what's it called

[@Lavis-ck8dw]

@@desdinovaincarnate9703 its has the same Title " Shadow out of Time"

[@Shinji_Dai]

"Are these dreams a clutch of stifled memories? Was there something in my mind? There are things they say man was not meant to know Is this shadow out of time?" --The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets "Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know" (good song about The Shadow Out of Time)

[@atlas_boulder8102]

I love the new intro

[@supertsigma6864]

The description of the Yith sounds like the process of Akashic recording. We claw at our destinies with these appendages

[@chriscalvin5083]

Good video

[@GOKU_868]

INTERESTING

[@maxhermann4117]

The thing on the thumbnail looks similar to Ebrietas from Bloodborne

[@flightlesslord2688]

Very cool. I love the idea of ancient civilisations before us, I mean... convergent evolution, nature often repeats itself. So, dinosaur people, or I guess cephalopod people could've existed, what they left has been destroyed by time however. Its mear speculation of course, but I'd say it's more likely to have happened than not to have happened. Just makes sense.

[@zodofkrypton4440]

Is there anyway you could cover Lovecraft's Dagon, and his possible relationship to the Deep Ones?

[@lafortya]

Always loved the Yithiens. IIRC the bodies we know them in were a food source for the polyps when they moved into them. So it's like if our cattle suddenly became hyper intelligent in an instant and started building lightning guns and such to go to war with us.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

lafortya polyps invade their home world. They invade the minds of their future cattle. Brilliant.

[@DaemonKeller]

Hope you plan on talking about the Mi-Go!

[@semi9316]

To anyone interested, this story and a few others were adapted into manga format by Tanabe Gou by the same names as the originals. If you're worried about seeing anime art styles then you won't have to worry about that. It's just black and white and read from right to left.

[@domidium]

Considering what the great race of yith is all about, I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be closely associated with Yog-Sothoth.

[@Hermit_mouse]

Such a cool intro

[@adamwelch4336]

There probably my favorite creatures from HP LOVECRAFT as there time traveling librarians. And there one od the few mythos creatures who aren't evil just driven by science and survival.

[@pferdebert]

Just DMed Masks of Nyarlathotep, Australia chapter. It's pretty much a pulpy rendition of "Shadow out of Time". One of my players became obsessed with a spirt of a yith. Big fun :)

[@hollandnovak9753]

Why does this sound familiar, why am i having this vague recollection of a dream I can't fully remember.

[@muskratsalvage9317]

Excellent presentation of Yithians. What is the source text for the picture at 2:31 ? how can i get a copy?

[@lizardmilk]

Inspiration for the old ones in TOS Star Trek episode Cats Paw.

[@Itsnotanymore-ku7dz]

I think the trumpet appendage is used for consuming nourishment.

[@battydude]

Do a vid on the Elder Things: the seeders of all life on Earth.

[@FrejthKing]

I am putting a Yithian in my two pathfinder campaigns this will br useful

[@halarkin]

The trumpets were one of the ways they communicate, it was 'in musical fluting tones' in the mountains of madness.

[@mukithyder]

you should make longer videos

[@jackiesantos2121]

Yeah he should take a look at the race called amigo lovecraftian alien races

[@gunnarzeke]

these look like the things from the whisperer in darkness trailer

[@TheMegaOrigin]

Great video, I’m a huge fan of Lovecraft, but I think you keep saying hindsight when it should be foresight?

[@GuyyDude]

Great video. To muse on the question, "What do the Yith look like," that's a very human question. The Yith look like, well, whatever, and whenever, they want. I think as a race, they would have learned different ways to identify themselves to one another, regardless of species, be it clicking or some other form of movement or design. Clearly, in order to survive the species had to shed notions of physical identity and instead understand their consciousness is who they are, otherwise they would eventually find some sort of race or species they would be repulsed by and refuse to transfer. They're beyond such simple attachments as looks and bodies.

[@whyareyougae6839]

Hoping you could do warcraft lore

[@LabTech41]

To put the Great Race of Yith into perspective, as far as alien advanced species/civilizations go, they were about the most benevolent you could get... and they still condemned at least two other races to cognitive extinction by swapping into their bodies to escape the cataclysms that befell them: once when they escaped to the cone-shaped bodies, and again when they condemned the beetle race to be slaughtered by the half-polyps.

[@LunarFoxfyre]

I dont know what they would have looked like but I would love to know them!

[@mdurst2009]

Please do The Outer Ones