Azathoth

Azathoth is a literary character who features in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Biography

Azathoth

According to some, Azathoth was stripped of its sanity after being defeated by the Elder Gods- according to others, it was always mad.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Azathoth's precise appearance is only hinted at throughout the Mythos, and indeed may be unknowable by mortal beings. It is described as occupying a position outside of the universe, where it is attended by a cohort of alien servants who continually bathe it with the sounds of pipes and drums. Though it is the ruler and creator of all existence, it is described as "a blind idiot god", oblivious to the universe and the beings within it.

Azathoth is known as the Idiot God, the Daemon Sultan, the Primal Chaos.

Powers and abilities

According to some theories, all of reality is merely a part of Azathoth's dream, unknowingly created by itself. When, not if Azathoth awakens, all things will end, once and for all, and all will once again be Azathoth, but it was never mentioned anywhere. At some point in the future after the second coming of Nyarlathotep, Azathoth will arrive to earth and destroy it.

Avatars of Azathoth included:

• Xada-Hgla :

It sits in the center of Ultimate Chaos, blaspheming eternally, being accompanied by fellow Outer Gods while they madly pipe flutes. Azathoth is sometimes said to be responsible for the creation of the universe, and may destroy it in the end- it is the most powerful Outer God.

Notes

• Azathoth was created by H. P. Lovecraft where it featured in the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos universe.

In other media

Novels

• In Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire, Azathoth appeared in the setting of the non-canon New Adventures story published by Virgin Books. The Doctor describes Azathoth as "the amorphous blight of nethermost confusion that blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity, coexistent with all time and conterminous with all space", and claims that it is omnipotent and omniscient. Conversely, he also identifies it as the weakest of the Great Old Ones, although this might have been an attempt to taunt the Azathoth cultists who held him captive at the time. He later discovered that the entity these cultists worshiped was not the real Azathoth, but just an impostor, using the name of a far more powerful being to manipulate its followers more easily.

Appearances

• Azathoth: (1922)

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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