Also this specific tidbit explains how he can be lord of all things (he created the universe anyway) but still be a blind idiot fool (he apparently doesn't even realizes what's happening)
I like the description "monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space" as it implies that Azathoth isn't a reasoning, thinking being, but something that is totally beyond human comprehension. As an atheist, one thing that annoys me about the depictions of various deities is when they have petty human reasoning and desires. I like to think the relationship is more akin to ants thinking about humans - the ants have no way to even grasp the nature of humans and humans have no interest (or at least most people don't) in what an ant believes or worships.
> I like to think the relationship is more akin to ants thinking about humans - the ants have no way to even grasp the nature of humans and humans have no interest (or at least most people don't) in what an ant believes or worships.
That's, incidentally, why I don't kill ants, but instead blow them gently so they fly away if they are in my body; or why I don't trample their mounds and look carefully at the ground when I'm walking, etc. I like to think that if some powerful being looked at Earth like we looked at ants, they wouldn't "trample" us mindlessly (like in the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy)
For me that's a deeply religious thought somehow (and from there, veganism is an obvious consequence)