Humanity Wasn’t First — The Prehuman History of Lovecraft’s Earth

Humanity arrived late in H. P. Lovecraft’s Earth.

Long before human history began, his fiction described buried cities, alien civilizations, engineered life, and entire species that ruled the planet before us.

In this documentary, we reconstruct the prehuman history of Lovecraft’s Earth — from the Old Ones and the Great Race of Yith to K’n-yan, the Mi-Go, Deep Ones, and civilizations whose own histories reach even further back.

How much of this history can actually be reconciled — and who, if anyone, was first?

CHAPTERS

00:00 — We Inherited an Old World
01:10 — I. Deep Time Without a Map
05:19 — II. When Prehistory Becomes Planetary
15:35 — III. Earth Changes Hands
26:30 — IV. The Histories Refuse to Align
34:50 — V. The Ancients Had Ancients
43:59 — VI. The Past Is Still Alive
54:55 — VII. Who Was First?

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