It is Cthulhu's birthday. Or at least, the anniversary of his first public appearance.
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| Cthulhu de Willendorf (MDE 2016) |
While H. P. Lovecraft wrote The Call of Cthulhu in the summer of 1926, it wasn't until February 1st, 1928 that Weird Tales published the story.
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| Weird Tales--February 1928 |
Due to this little fact, some esoteric astrologers working with the mythos use this date as Cthulhu birthday when calculating certain figures.
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