H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out Of Time - Vol. 2 Ch. 7 - The Great Race's Central Archives

[MangaDex]

 

[Mangon]

Great art

 

[phil777]

Well shit. This is certainly not something you wanna read before you go to sleep.

 

[Renard]

Thank you for the new chapter, a small question regarding the translation ¿Do you translate directly from the manga or get some complementary help from the original tale?, seems like a good example of how to handle the translation of the translation.

 

[DOIHI]

thanks for the translation!

it's time to reduce my sanity

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

I dont read lovecraft much other than the manga posted here, seems like the great race here isnt a psychopathic race wanting only sacrifices and suffering.

 

[aatlass]

first page i thought you wrote nonetheless without space or am i wrong?

 

[NotALewdGuy]

HINDOO

 

[Rainbow_Prism]

I read Lovecraft stories in past. Particularly one about Antarctic expedition.
The creatures in Cthulu Mythos are alien to the point that you cannot find common ground.
The closest ones to intellectual beings would consider you worth less of note than an insect.
The sacrifices are mostly ideas of human cults hoping to appease them. Mostly pointless idea.

They simply don't give a fuck.

 

[Doomroar]

@77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx The great race of Yith is quite chill, they mind swap you and try to get your knowledge, but in the meantime you get to hang out and interact with other great minds from other times, since they only mind swap intellectuals the experience can even be rewarding.

However the idea of one day getting your body swapped by an organism from the distant past is horrifying, even if they eventually give you your body back, that i guess is kind of scary to think, the smarter you get the higher your chances one day you wake up and you find yourself in the body of an alien in some library.
But then! then! comes the real kicker, The great race of Yith was fighting something, something hellbent on annihilation, and they won! but not entirely... they could only held the evil back, imprison it, seal it, keep it from spreading.

But the great race of Yith somehow didn't lasted, they are no longer around, no one that got to be body swapped and explore the great libraries got to know exactly what happened, it was taboo, that piece of history disappeared, but another remained.
The prisons remain, still, buried, and intact, and their prisoners await for their time to get out and spread doom.

And now we have a digging expedition, because why not? body swapped minds with ancient organism? that's crazy talk, hey look a tomb!

 

[zawarudo]

In the original story, Dyer was not really touched upon, despite being the main character of At the Mountains of Madness and having seen the Elder Things' civilization before agreeing to accompany Peaslee. Here he is shown to explicitly notice the Elder Thing illustration made by Peaslee with concern, because he now realizes he isn't the only one unfortunate enough to have known too much about the true history of Earth. A very nice touch.

In a way, the Yithians and the Elder Things are very similar in their approach to life down to the habit of documenting everything they know, and even the courses taken by their respective fates are similar.