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Idol of Bokrug

Bokrug (The Great Water Lizard) is the lake-dwelling god of the semi-amphibian Thuum'ha (Beings) of Ib in the lands of Mnar.

The deity sleeps beneath the calm waters of a lake that bordered Ib and the city of Sarnath. When the humans of Sarnath cruelly slaughtered the populace of Ib and stole the god's idol, the great deity stirred. Each year thereafter, strange ripples reportedly disturbed the otherwise placid lake. On the one-thousandth anniversary of Ib's destruction, Bokrug rose up and utterly destroyed the city of Sarnath (so completely that not even ruins remained). Afterwards, the Thuum'ha race recolonised Ib and thenceforth lived undisturbed.

The worship of Bokrug continued in Ilarnek among Human Cultists after Sarnath met its doom: "Half buried in the rushes was spied a curious green idol of stone; an exceedingly ancient idol coated with seaweed and chiselled in the likeness of Bokrug, the great water-lizard. That idol, enshrined in the high temple at Ilarnek, was subsequently worshipped beneath the gibbous moon throughout the land of Mnar." - HPL, "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"

Bokrug first appeared in Lovecraft's short story "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920). The being is also part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.