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The Moon God: Lunar entity that dwells in the Dimension of Enno-Lunn. Arwassa The Silent Shouter on the Hill: A humanoid-torso with tentacles instead of limbs, and a short neck ending in a toothless, featureless mouth. Atlach-Nacha The Spider God, Spinner in Darkness: A giant spider with a human-like face. Ayi'ig The Serpent Goddess, Aeg, Aega
These deities include the "Great Old Ones" and extraterrestrials, such as the "Elder Things", with sporadic references to other miscellaneous deities (e.g. Nodens). The "Elder Gods" are a later creation of other prolific writers who expanded on Lovecraft's concepts, such as August Derleth, who was credited with formalizing the Cthulhu Mythos.
In Out of the Aeons, she is one of the deities siding with humanity against "hostile gods". [3] August Derleth classified Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One, but the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game classifies her as an Outer God. The CthulhuTech role-playing game, in turn, returns to Derleth's classification of Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One.
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
Thrall, born as Go'el, is a fictional character who appears in the Warcraft series of video games by Blizzard Entertainment.Within the series, Thrall is an orc shaman who served for a time as a Warchief of the Horde, one of the major factions of the Warcraft universe, as well as the leader of a shaman faction dedicated to preserving the balance between elemental forces in the world of Azeroth ...
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: Τιτᾶνες, Tītânes, singular: Τιτάν, Titán) were the pre-Olympian gods. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans—Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus—and six female Titans, called the Titanides ...
A theological system where Nanna, rather than Enlil, was the king of gods, is known from a text from the Old Babylonian period; [91] in the preserved fragment Enlil, Anu, Enki and Ninhursag served as his advisers, alongside his children Utu and Inanna. [35]
These four creatures are also referred to by a variety of other names, including "Four Guardians", "Four Gods", and "Four Auspicious Beasts". They are the Azure Dragon of the East, the Vermilion Bird of the South, the White Tiger of the West, and the Black Tortoise (also called "Black Warrior") of the North.