Azathoth
Sign in to saveAzathoth 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, and may also be seen as a symbol for primordial chaos, therefore being the most powerful entity in the entirety of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Key facts
- Character.relatives
- Yog-Sothoth (grandson)Shub-Niggurath (granddaughter)Nug (great-grandchild)Yeb (great-grandchild)Wilbur Whateley (great-grandson)Cthulhu (great-great-grandson)Tsathoggua (great-great-grandson) Hastur (great-grandson) Ithaqua (great-great-grandson)Zhar and Lloigor (great-grandchild) and The Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath (great-grandchild)
- Character.name
- Azathoth
- Character.series
- Cthulhu Mythos
- Character.image
- Azathoth.jpg
- Character.caption
- Artist's depiction of Azathoth
- Character.first
- "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
- Character.creator
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Character.species
- Other God
- Character.title
- Nuclear ChaosDaemon SultanBlind Idiot GodLord of All ThingsLord of Nighted Chaos
- Character.children
- Nyarlathotep (son)Nameless Mist (offspring)Darkness (offspring)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary character
- Gender
- male organism
- Image
- Azathoth.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- from narrative universe
- Cthulhu Mythos
- present in work
- Cthulhu Mythos
- character type
- villain
- domain of saint or deity
- chaos
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Inspiration
- Fiction
- ''The Azathoth Cycle''
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
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, and may also be seen as a symbol for primordial chaos, therefore being the most powerful entity in the entirety of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Azathoth is referred to as the "daemon-sultan" and "Lord of All Things", whose throne is at the center of "Ultimate Chaos". In his genealogy chart from 1933 of his mythos, Lovecraft places Azathoth as the single being at the very top from which everything else descends.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Azathoth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.