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Tsathoggua (the Sleeper of N’kai) is a fictional supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle.

Tsathoggua (or Zhothaqquah) is described as an Old One, a godlike being from the pantheon. He was invented in Smith’s short story ”The Tale of Satampra Zeiros,” written in 1929 and published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales. His first appearance in print, however, was in H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Whisperer in Darkness”, written in 1930 and published in the August 1931 Weird Tales.

Robert M. Price notes that “Lovecraft’s Tsathoggua and Smith’s differ at practically every point.” Lovecraft, dropping Smith’s bat and sloth comparisons, refers to the entity in “ The Whisperer in Darkness” as the “amorphous, toad-like god-creature mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon and the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton“—the priest’s name a tip of the hat to Tsathoggua’s creator.

Later, in “The Horror in the Museum”, a story ghost-written by Lovecraft, he writes, “Black Tsathoggua moulded itself from a toad-like gargoyle to a sinuous line with hundreds of rudimentary feet.”

It is likely that Tsathoggua can alter his shape, the better to adapt to whatever environment he is in. When he dwelt on Cykranosh (a planet we know today as Saturn), he probably had a much different form, probably looking more like his paternal uncle Hziulquoigmnzhah, whose head dangles underneath his spheroid-like body.

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Ydheem Priestess (amphibian girl)

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*For Suthladamos who inspired this pic!

Description
Tsathoggua (the Sleeper of N’kai) is a fictional supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle.

Tsathoggua (or Zhothaqquah) is described as an Old One, a godlike being from the pantheon. He was invented in Smith’s short story ”The Tale of Satampra Zeiros,” written in 1929 and published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales. His first appearance in print, however, was in H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Whisperer in Darkness”, written in 1930 and published in the August 1931 Weird Tales.

Robert M. Price notes that “Lovecraft’s Tsathoggua and Smith’s differ at practically every point.” Lovecraft, dropping Smith’s bat and sloth comparisons, refers to the entity in “ The Whisperer in Darkness” as the “amorphous, toad-like god-creature mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon and the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton“—the priest’s name a tip of the hat to Tsathoggua’s creator.

Later, in “The Horror in the Museum”, a story ghost-written by Lovecraft, he writes, “Black Tsathoggua moulded itself from a toad-like gargoyle to a sinuous line with hundreds of rudimentary feet.”

It is likely that Tsathoggua can alter his shape, the better to adapt to whatever environment he is in. When he dwelt on Cykranosh (a planet we know today as Saturn), he probably had a much different form, probably looking more like his paternal uncle Hziulquoigmnzhah, whose head dangles underneath his spheroid-like body.

Stock Credits ~

Toad

ParanoidFreaksStock

Background

LuchareStock

Blood drips that i turned into slim drips, Tentacles, and White Smoke PNG's

MaureenOlder

Bat wings

Ecathe

Claws

Irium-Stock

Teeth

CelticStrm-Stock

Incense smoke

hatestock

Altar Stone and Skull PNGs

zememz

Candle

roula33

Cauldron

shd-stock

Ydheem Priestess (amphibian girl)

CatONineTales

Creature eye

SprayerDaYuri

Cup Holding Incense

mmp-stock

Texture

RoxStock

Brushes

DarkNova666

*For Suthladamos who inspired this pic!