I read the following yesterday in
Trail of Cthulhu, an RPG by Kenneth Hite. Despite the gaming theme, I expect it'll be appreciated here:
"Azathoth" is the name given in the Necronomicon to "the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space," the illusory personification of the Big Bang, just as "Thor" personifies lightning. The "invocation" or "summoning" of "Azathoth" is occult code for the release of atomic energy.
The book has lots of stuff along that lines:
Cthulhu is an Outer God, the incarnation of (or a sentient facet of) gravity
and
Nyarlathotep began as a specific telepathic "language", capable of expressing ultimate parascientific truths in symbolic form between species of vastly varying sensoria, brain structure, chemical composition, etc. It eventually became artificially intelligent, as more beings put more and more information and meaning into it. As its heuristics and decision-making routines warped, Nyarlathotep became malicious and capricious, asserting it's growing independence.
Cool stuff, huh?
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