Poetry and the Gods that Lovecraft and Winifred Jackson co-wrote with a Greek mythology basis. What Anna Helen Crofts contributed to "Poetry and the Gods" is unknown. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi reports that she "appeared sporadically in the amateur press, and may have been introduced to [Lovecraft] by Winifred Jackson." Lovecraft's surviving letters do not mention "Poetry and the Gods". In his 1955 essay on the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft scholar George Wetzel compares the messenger god Hermes in "Poetry and the Gods" with Nyarlathotep, the "messenger of Azathoth". Wetzel considers the dream communication used by Hermes to be "the same psychic device used
Ode to the Gods Ode to the Gods Ode to the Gods is the name of an English soundtrack album to Stavros Sideras' 1993 one-act opera of the same name starring Greek Cypriot singer Anna Vissi. It is Anna Vissi’s first English soundtrack album and was released in Cyprus and Greece in 1993 by Cypriot record company All Records. Vissi’s costars included Labis Livieratos and Bessie Malfa, who perform on three tracks each. The opera was only staged once in October 1993 in Limassol under the auspices of the Government of Cyprus and played before Queen Elizabeth II and Her Excellencies. Music and lyrics