(T)hose daring to oppose the Elder Gods who ruled from Betelgueze, the Great Old Ones who fought against the Elder Gods.were instructed by Azathoth, who is the blind idiot god, and by Yog-Sothoth.
It is also portrayed as a leader in a cosmic upheaval akin to Lucifer's rebellion in the Bible and is prophesied to return 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." He must sign in his own blood the book of Azathoth and take a new secret name. In Gilman's case it's the witch Keziah Mason who references Azathoth while haunting his dreams telling him "He must meet The Black Man, and go with them all to the throne of Azathoth at the centre of ultimate Chaos. ( EXP: " The Insects from Shaggai")Īzathoth is a significant malign presence In the Necronomicon as both Albert Wilmarth ( HPL: " The Whisperer in Darkness") and Walter Gilman ( HPL: " The Dreams in the Witch House") are horrified at the mere mention of its name having both read about it in the occult tome.
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Later Shae sees "something ooze into the corridor-a pale grey shape, expanding and crinkling, which glistened and shook gelatinously as still-moving particles dropped free but it was only a glimpse". From the half-open shell rose several jointed cylinders, tipped with polypous appendages and in the darkness inside the shell I thought I saw a horrible bestial, mouthless face, with deep-sunk eyes and covered with glistening black hair." ( EXP: " The Insects from Shaggai") Outside, It consisted of a bivalvular shell supported on many pairs of flexible legs. (source needed)įor example Ronald Shea enters a temple after visiting the forest near Goatswood and discovers a twenty-foot idol that "represented the god Azathoth-Azathoth as he had been before his exile. 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. ( EXP: Russell's Guide to Interdimensional Entities) There can be no definite description of Azathoth because everybody envisions him differently and he is always changing.Īccording to some accounts, it is a huge sentient black hole.