Cthulhu is an Elder God from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, a favorite author of mine. I chose the name for this forum because according to the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu waits dreaming in his home in the darkest depths of a sunken ruin somewhere in the ocean.

* *\"If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence...\" — H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu [/b]
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", translates to "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"

Anyone who likes the work of Poe should really check into H.P Lovecraft. One of the 20th centuries greatest horror writers.