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Shub-Niggurath

Shub-Niggurath also known as The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, is one of the fictional deities of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos; she is never actually described in any of Lovecraft's stories, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. Shub-Niggurath is a perverse fertility deity, said to be an enormous cloudy mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths and short writhing goat legs. She is worshipped extensively by druidic and barbaric cults.

"One squat, black temple of Tsathoggua was encountered, but it had been turned into a shrine of Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother and wife of the the Not-to-Be-Named-One. This deity was a kind of sophisticated Astarte, and her worship struck the pious Catholic as supremely obnoxious." -- H.P. Lovecraft, The Mound

"Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!" -- H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness,, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Man of Stone

Shub-Niggurath also makes an appearence as the final adversary of the FPS computer game Quake.



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