5 Nyarlathotep
To quote HP Lovecraft: “And where Nyarlathotep
went, rest vanished, for the
small hours were rent with the screams of
nightmare.” Nyarlathotep, known to many
by his epithet The Crawling Chaos, is an Outer
God in the Cthulhu Mythos. He is the spawn
of Azathoth and first appeared in his prose
poem Nyarlathotep back in 1920. A quote from
The Dreams in the Witch-House goes as follows:
“a tall, lean man of dead black colouration:
wholly devoid of either hair or bear, and
wearing as his only garment a shapeless robe
of some heavy black fabric. His feet were
indistinguishable because of the table and
bench, but he must have been shod, since there
was a clicking whenever he changed position.
The man did not speak, and bore no trace of
expression on his small, regular features.
He merely pointed to a book of prodigious
size which lay upon the table…” Nyarlathotep
differs from the other deities in the Mythos
in a number of ways. Most of the Outer Gods
are exiled to the stars, like Yog-Sothoth
and Azathoth, and most of the Great Old Ones
are sleeping and dreaming like Cthulhu; Nyarlathotep,
however, is active and frequently walks the
Earth in the guise of a human being, usually
a tall, slim, joyous man. Nyarlathotep enacts
the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger,
heart and soul, the immemorial figure of the
deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible
powers. He is also the servant of Azathoth,
whose fitful wishes he fulfills. Unlike the
other Outer Gods, spreading madness is more
important and enjoyable than death and destruction
to Nyarlathotep. It is also suggested by some
that he will destroy the human race and possibly
the earth as well.
4 Yidhra
To quote John Paul LeChat in Where Yidhra
Walks: “A hundred April winds disperse her
fragrance. A thousand wet Octobers scour her
footprints, The ruthless years assail the
ancient memory of her presence, yet, Where
Yidhra walks the hill do not forget.” Yidhra
is an Outer God who is worshipped as a beautiful,
awesome, and terrible earth-monster, similar
to Shub-Niggurath and might be connected to
The Darkness, but more on her later. She has
many avatar forms including Yolanda and Madam
Yi since her life-cycle centres around absorbing
other lifeforms and taking from them their
evolutionary advantages. This in turn makes
her immortal. She has telepathic powers which
gives her a link to her servitors, and can
project illusions. Back to her avatars though.
As I mentioned, one of her avatars is Madam
Yi, in which she appears as a beautiful human
Asian female, dressed in billowing red, white,
and black robes. Which has a delicate painted
face that looks like that of a porcelain doll
and possesses razor-like long fingernails.
The avatar appears in China, where it mates
with and kills the young men provided to her
by female led and dominated cults. Producing
monstrous or deformed offspring, most of which
are reabsorbed by her.
3 Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath is an Outer God in the Cthulhu
Mythos of HP Lovecraft. The being first appeared
in Lovecraft’s revision story “The Last
Test” back in 1928; however, in Lovecraft’s
work, she is never actually described, but
is frequently mentioned or called upon in
incantations. Shub-Niggurath also appears
in the works of other authors, including August
Derleth, Lin Carter, and Brian Lumley. Shub-Niggurath
is an Outer God or Outer Goddess in the pantheon.
She is a perverse fertility deity, said to
appear as an evil cloud-like entity, as written
by HP Lovecraft in Selected Letters. She is
said to be an enormous mass which extrudes
black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths, and
short, writhing goat legs. Small creatures
are continually spat forth by the monstrosity,
which are either consumed into the miasmatic
form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere.
Of all of the mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath
is probably the most worshipped. Her followers
include the Hyperboreans, the Muvians, and
the people of Sarnath, as well as any number
of druidic and barbaric cults. Shub-Niggurath
is believed to have mated with Hastur to produce
the being Zhar, Ithaqua, and J’Zahar. Hastur
may also be the father of her “Thousand
Young” or “Dark Young”, though there
is a good chance they were spawned by fission.
Now, she has also appeared outside of the
world of Lovecraft. Both Stephen King and
Terry Pratchett have referenced Shub-Niggurath
in their works.
2 Yog-Sothoth
To quote HP Lovecraft in The Dunwich Horror:
“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.” Yog-Sothoth
is a cosmic entity and Outer God. Born of
the Nameless Mist, he is the progenitor of
Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable and the ancestor
of the Voormi. Like many Lovecraftian gods,
Yog-Sothoth has many different appearances
throughout the various stories of the mythos,
by various authors. There is however a common
agreement that Yog-Sothoth visually manifests
as a mass of glowing orbs, with eyes or tendrils
in some versions, and in others simply the
orbs. It is also heavily implied that Yog-Sothoth
is omniscient, and is locked outside the universe,
meaning he can know and see all of space-time
all at once, which means there is no secret
hidden from Yog-Sothoth. Outside of the work
of HP Lovecraft, Yog-Sothoth also appears
in Doctor Who as the military strategist of
the Great Old Ones, who were the equivalent
of the Time Lords in a previous universe.
1 Azathoth
To quote HP Lovecraft in The Dream-Quest of
Unknown Kadath: “Outside the ordered universe
is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion
which blasphemes and bubbles at the center
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 and space amidst the
muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and
the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.”
Azathoth, sometimes called The Blind Idiot
God, the Nuclear Chaos, and The Deep Dark
is an Outer God with no definite description
simply because everybody envisions him differently
and he is constantly changing. There is evidence
the physical manifestation of Azathoth in
the universe is continuous with a spot in
the central region of the galaxy, otherwise
known as Sagittarius A - the supermassive
black hole at the center of the Milky Way
galaxy. Azathoth is a significant malign presence
in the Necronomicon as both Albert Wilmarth
and Walter Gilman are horrified at the mere
mention of its name having both read about
it in the occult tome. In Gilman’s case
it’s the witch Keziah Mason who references
Azathoth while haunting his dreams, stating:
“He must meet The Black Man, and go with
them all to the throne of Azathoth at the
centre of the ultimate chaos...he must sign
in his own blood the book of Azathoth and
take a new secret name...what kept him from
going with her...to the throne of Chaos where
the thin flutes pipe mindlessly was the fact
that he had seen the name Azathoth in the
Necronomicon, and knew it stood for a primal
horror too horrible for description.”
Well, there we have it! Do you guys agree
with our list? Were there any Lovecraftian
Gods that we missed? Leave us all your thoughts
and feelings in the comments down below and
perhaps we can do a part 2. Before I go though,
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On Google Maps.
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