Shub-Niggurath
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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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Shub-Niggurath is referenced by 167 other articles, and connects out to deity, Pan and The Horror in the Museum.
Vinony files it under Astarte, Baphomet and Cthulhu Mythos deities.
Its subject is documented across 16 Wikipedia language editions.
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)
- Character.children
- Ithaqua, Zhar, Lloigor and the Dark Youngs of Shub-Niggurath (with Hastur) and Nug and Yeb (with Yog-sothoth)
- Character.home
- Yaddith
- Character.title
- Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary character
- Gender
- female
- Image
- Shub-Niggurath.jpg
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- from narrative universe
- Cthulhu Mythos
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shub-Niggurath” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.