Outer Gods

Shub-Niggurath

슈브 니구라스

Also: the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young

Shub-Niggurath is a deity of endless spawning whose name is chanted like an incantation in ritual. Rarely depicted directly, it exists more through invocation than through any image.

It is fertility turned to horror — the sense that nature’s reproductive power is not for humanity but grows on, indifferent to us and swallowing us as it multiplies.

Outer God of the Cthulhu Mythos

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