Azathoth
| Azathoth | |
|---|---|
| Cthulhu Mythos character | |
Artist's depiction of Azathoth | |
| First appearance | "Azathoth" |
| Created by | H. P. Lovecraft |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Outer God |
| Title | Nuclear Chaos Daemon Sultan Blind Idiot God Lord of All Things Lord of Nighted Chaos |
| Children | Nyarlathotep (son) Nameless Mist (offspring) Darkness (offspring) |
| Relatives | Yog-Sothoth (grandson) Shub-Niggurath (granddaughter) Nug (great-grandchild) Yeb (great-grandchild) Wilbur Whateley (great-grandson) Cthulhu (great-great-grandson) Tsathoggua (great-great-grandson) Hastur (great-grandson) Ithaqua (great-great-grandson) Zhar and Lloigor (great-grandchild) and The Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath (great-grandchild) |
Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. He is the supreme deity of the Cthulhu Mythos and the ruler of the Outer Gods, and may also be seen as a symbol for primordial chaos, therefore being the most powerful entity in the entirety of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Azathoth is referred to as the "daemon-sultan" and "Lord of All Things", whose throne is at the center of "Ultimate Chaos". In his genealogy chart from 1933 of his mythos, Lovecraft places Azathoth as the single being at the very top from which everything else descends.
The name "Azathoth" was first mentioned in a note from 1919 by Lovecraft, and Azathoth was first formally introduced in the novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which was finished in 1927, but not published until 1943, though the name was the title of an unfinished novel in 1922 by Lovecraft, which was not published until 1938.