Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath is a fictional deity created by H. P. Lovecraft. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". The only other name by which Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story The Whisperer in Darkness.
Key facts
- Character.name
- Shub-Niggurath
- Character.series
- Cthulhu Mythos
- Character.image
- Shub-Niggurath.jpg
- Character.caption
- Artistic portrayal of Shub-Niggurath, along with her "Thousand Young"
- Character.first
- "The Last Test"
- Character.creator
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Character.nickname
- "The All Mother"
- Character.alias
- The Black Goat with thousand young
- Character.species
- Other God/Outer God
- Character.gender
- Female
- Character.occupation
- One of the Outer gods and a member of the Court of Azathoth
- Character.spouse
- Hastur (in the present) and Yog-sothoth (in the past)
Article
9 sectionsContents
- Development
- Revision tales
- Other references
- The Black Goat
- Robert M. Price's interpretation
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Shub-Niggurath is a fictional deity created by H. P. Lovecraft. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". The only other name by which Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story The Whisperer in Darkness.
Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); she is not described by Lovecraft, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. Most of her development as a literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell.