So would the Ultimate Gods simply be the byproduct of a limited human mind perceiving the Archetypes much like Carter seems to have experienced some elements of space and time in a realm beyond them?
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In the face of that awful wonder, the quasi-Carter forgot the horror of destroyed individuality. It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self—not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence’s whole unbounded sweep—the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign—yet in a flash the Carter-facet realised how slight and fractional all these conceptions are.
The archetypes, throbbed the waves, are the people of the ultimate abyss—formless, ineffable, and guessed at only by rare dreamers on the low-dimensioned worlds. Chief among such was this informing BEING itself . . . which indeed was Carter’s own archetype. The glutless zeal of Carter and all his forbears for forbidden cosmic secrets was a natural result of derivation from the SUPREME ARCHETYPE. On every world all great wizards, all great thinkers, all great artists, are facets of IT.
Then, in the midst of these devastating reflections, Carter’s beyond-the-gate fragment was hurled from what had seemed the nadir of horror to black, clutching pits of a horror still more profound. This time it was largely external—a force or personality which at once confronted and surrounded and pervaded him, and which in addition to its local presence, seemed also to be a part of himself, and likewise to be coexistent with all time and coterminous with all space. There was no visual image, yet the sense of entity and the awful concept of combined localism, identity, and infinity lent a paralysing terror beyond anything which any Carter-fragment had hitherto deemed capable of existing.
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth’s fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.
There were, in such voyages, incalculable local dangers; as well as that shocking final peril which gibbers unmentionably outside the ordered universe, where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity—the boundless daemon-sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes; to which detestable pounding and piping dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic ultimate gods, the blind, voiceless, tenebrous, mindless Other Gods whose soul and messenger is the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.
Eventually there had been a hint of vast, leaping shadows, of a monstrous, half-acoustic pulsing, and of the thin, monotonous piping of an unseen flute—but that was all. Gilman decided he had picked up that last conception from what he had read in the Necronomicon about the mindless entity Azathoth, which rules all time and space from a curiously environed black throne at the centre of Chaos.
Before his eyes a kaleidoscopic range of phantasmal images played, all of them dissolving at intervals into the picture of a vast, unplumbed abyss of night wherein whirled suns and worlds of an even profounder blackness. He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a daemoniac flute held in nameless paws.
The legend of Yig, Father of Serpents, remained figurative no longer, and I started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space which the Necronomicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of Azathoth.
The issue with using it as evidence for a difference between UGs and Archetypes is that "change" in this case simply seems to mean time:
And one of the things we are repeatedly told about the Outer Extension is that it already exists outside of time, with Carter's apparent perception of such being due to his inability to properly grasp its true nature:
And one more quote from The Whisperer in Darkness for good measure:
Note that Azathoth is stated to be beyond angled space here. Looking back at the first quote, you can see that the Ultimate Gods in general are stated to "command all angles," by which they may choose to view the cosmos either as a fragmentary, changing thing or as the changeless totality it truly is. Given that "change," again, refers to time, the Outer Extension would logically already exist beyond dimensions/angles, which is supported by the text itself:
While yes, it is also referred to as "dimensioned," keep in mind that Carter cannot grasp the Outer Extension in full, requiring it to translate itself into a form he can understand. Any hints of dimensionality he may have perceived would just be his mind trying to make sense of the Outer Extension, hence the "dim half-pictures with uncertain outlines" formed of "memory and imagination."
Finally, take note of the Outer Extension being called "an infinitesimal thing" and a "small wholeness." Since it is reached by way of the First Gate, these descriptions have to be referring to the fact that the Outer Extension is a microcosm of the Ultimate Void, which again is supported in the narrative:
This is a long post, but I think you get the gist of it: that the Archetypes cannot and should not be separated from the Ultimate Gods for the simple reason that even the Outer Extension, a realm far beneath the Ultimate Gods in its cosmic position, is already treated as an archetypal, trans-dimensional realm above and beyond the concepts of time and change. This doesn't affect the existence of the Supreme Archetype, though, which I will go over separately.