Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath is a literary character who features in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Biography
Shub-Niggurath is the Outer God known as the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. Representing the cosmic principle of fertility, Shub-Niggurath is among the most widely venerated Outer Gods, having been worshipped under a variety of guises by such peoples as the Tcho-Tchos, Hyperboreans, Muvians, ancient Greeks, ancient Cretans, and ancient Egyptians. She manifests as a cloud or mass from which various appendages protrude and are reabsorbed, and is believed to reside on Earth or on the planet Yaddith. (She may very well reside in both places, considering the nature of the Outer Gods.)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was often associated with the epithet the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. (Novel: The Whisperer in Darkness)
Zamacona y Nuñez likened Shub-Niggurath to be a kind of sophisticated Astarte of Babylonian myth, and found the practices of her cultists to be objectionable. (Novel: The Mound)
Powers and abilities
She was also worshipped by some non-human species such as the Fungi from Yuggoth. (Novel: The Whisperer in Darkness)
Notes
- Shub-Niggurath was created by H. P. Lovecraft where she featured in the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos universe.
In other media
Television
Video games
- In Quake, Shub-Niggurath appeared as the final antagonist in the setting of the 1990s FPS video game. The absolute of an alternate reality, she was known as the Hell-Mother, All-Mother, and the Witch-Goddess with Shub-Niggurath being the mother of all monsters invading the cosmos. She spawned an army to invade Earth using the humans' own portal technology. She planned on using the four runes to cause such destruction, but the runes were instead sought by the players character and used to gain access to Shub-Niggurath's Pit in confronting the Witch-Goddess.
Novels
- In Doctor Who: Millennial Rites, Shub-Niggurath was referenced in the setting of the Virgin Missing Adventures novel written by Craig Hinton. It was said that she came to conquer the world of Polymos and spawned the Nestene Consciousness.
- In Doctor Who: Divided Loyalties, Shub-Niggurath was referenced in the setting of the BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel written by Gary Russell. She was identified as being a member of a race of beings similar to the Time Lords of a universe presiding the current one.
- In Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel, Shub-Niggurath was referenced in the setting of the BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel written by Craig Hinton. It was said that Great Old Ones were the survivors of an earlier race of Time Lords from the previous universe. Shub-Niggurath was also identified as having been that universe’s equivalent of the head of the CIA.
Comic Books
Other
Appearances
- The Last Test: (1928)
- The Mound:
- The Whisperer in Darkness: (1930)
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