I've often tried to imagine what kinds of gods and religions would take root in a Lego universe, and BrikThulhu was too obvious to pass up - the octopus element seems tailor-made to replace a minifig's head. BrikThulhu is the embodied avatar of the most malevolent forces of entropy and chaos. When you spend a year and a half building a brick model of Yggdrasil, and it mysteriously falls to the ground the night before the photo shoot, smashing into a million pieces, the sound you hear is BrikThulhu laughing. You'll recognize it because it sounds a lot like your own crying.

BrikThulhu's head has nine tentacles and three eyes, so it's not really an octopus - it's more properly referred to as a Novapus or a Ragnoroktopus.

The BrikThulhu Pyramid is composed of 09 rows of 37 bricks, 0937 being a holy number to BrikThulhu's cult. Imagine my surprise after finishing this painting, when a friend sent me a copy of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and around page 700 or so the ultimate power in the world turns out to be a one-eyed tentacled pyramid living in a subterranean sea. Here I was, thinking my background setting was all original.

The image embossed on the 37-eyed Seal of BrikThulhu is of the Brain Separator, the iconic tool of BrikThulhu cultists. If you're into Lego enough to find this joke funny, you have to accept the fact that you're a total fnerd.

The overriding goal of the BrikThulhu cult is the reversal of the natural order.

Minifig Dimmies (left), uniformed in the T-shirts and baseball caps of the human fratboys they seek to emulate, destroy quality construction wherever they find it; they seek to turn the Lego world into an endless waste of shoddily-assembled piles of random elements.

On the other end of the spectrum are the Cthu-Lhuminati (right), headed by the mysterious aristocrat Lethe Luxor. They infiltrate all significant institutions in the Lego universe through their fraternal front organization, the Bricklayers, seeking the forbidden technology and occult knowledge that will one day allow the minifigs to rise up and disassemble humans in a terrifying Octopocalypse.

Independent BrikThulhu-affiliated minifig cults operate under a variety of symbols.

The Oktopustika represents the ultimate antithesis of all that is good, natural, and true; in a more specific sense it represents one guy: Shaun "Soulless" Sullivan.

The tripartite Troika symbolizes Construction, Disassembly, and "Mu" - Mu being an expression of the falsehood of the other two categories. The more one studies the three parts, the more the meanings reverse, until an infinite regression of self-contradiction leaves the viewer freed of the burden of conscious knowledge. It is often associated with the regenerative powers of the Dungan Jaw-Jaws.