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Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. He is the supreme deity of the Cthulhu Mythos and the ruler of the Outer Gods, [1] and may also be seen as a symbol for primordial chaos, [2] therefore being the most powerful entity in the entirety of the Cthulhu Mythos.
"Azathoth" is the beginning of an incomplete novel written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. [1] It was written in June 1922, and published as a fragment in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. [ 2 ]
According to the genealogy H. P. Lovecraft devised for his characters (later published as "Letter 617" in Selected Letters), Yog-Sothoth is the offspring of the Nameless Mists, which were born of the deity Azathoth. Yog-Sothoth mated with Shub-Niggurath to produce the twin deities Nug and Yeb, while Nug sired Cthulhu through parthenogenesis. [26]
The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos. Overview: Name. The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death. The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark. Description. A brief description ...
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House" The Book of Azathoth is a creation of Lovecraft's. It is mentioned in " The Dreams in the Witch House " as a book harbored by Nyarlathotep in the form of the Black Man (or Satan ).
The Virtual World of H. P. Lovecraft a mapping of Lovecraft's imaginary version of New England Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown – full documentary at the Snagfilms company YouTube channel Schema on Lovecraft's »The Call of Ctuhulhu« and the Cthulhu Mythos Archived 2023-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
In "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft describes a statue of Cthulhu as: "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."
Lovecraft regarded the short story as "rather middling—not as bad as the worst, but full of cheap and cumbrous touches". Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story, and only accepted it after writer Donald Wandrei, a friend of Lovecraft's, falsely claimed that Lovecraft was thinking of submitting it elsewhere. [15]