Slig heads and the Cthulu...

[Melvin:squeeking paramite]

I was reading a book full of H.P Lovecraft stories, and I came across the classic horror story "The Call of the Cthulu." As I was reading, I saw that the Cthulu head and Slig heads are quite similar. Read this: (sadly, this isn't the excerpt i wanted, but it describes the head a little)

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, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.

Didn't do much good? Well, look at this sketch that H.P Lovecraft did of the beast: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/lovecraft/Cthulhu.GIF

So, what do you think? Did Lorne or Sherry get some inspiration from "The Call of the Cthulu" or was it just a coincidence?

[abe22]

I think it might be a coincidence. I thought sligs heads looked a lot like a cuttlefish.

[kleeng]

I already knew about chulthu but this is the first time I'v notised the simmelarity. But it's brobably just coincidence.

[Wil]

Well, you never know. I think it's entirely possible.

It's claimed, although nobody really knows whether it's true or not, that Mike Oldfield thieved the famous Tubular Bells theme from another band's demo song.

So...well, like I said, I wouldn't be surprised.