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 * ?
 ** [[Zyhumé]] (androgyne)
-*** [[Yhoundeh]] or [[Y'houndeh]] (female) '''E'''
+*** [[Yhoundeh]] or [[Y'houndeh]] (female) '''E''' ("wife" of [[Nyarlathotep]])

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	*** ? [[Voorm]]		*** ? [[Voorm]]
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 ==Lin Carter and August Derleth==
-In [[Lin Carter]]'s [[Xothic Cycle]], [[Cthulhu]] is the father of [[Cthylla]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Ythogtha]], and [[Zoth-Ommog]].  (The supposed origin of [[Nyarlathotep]] and [[Hastur]] in the same star cluster is supposed to be suggestive in this connection, apparently building on suggestions from [[August Derleth]]'s ''[[Trail of Cthulhu (fiction)]]''.)  [[Aphoom-Zhah]] is the progeny of [[Cthugha]].
+In [[Lin Carter]]'s [[Xothic Cycle]], [[Cthulhu]] is the father of [[Cthylla]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Ythogtha]], and [[Zoth-Ommog]].  (The supposed origin of [[Nyarlathotep]] and [[Hastur]] in the same star cluster is supposed to be suggestive in this connection, apparently building on suggestions from [[August Derleth]]'s ''[[Trail of Cthulhu (fiction)]]''.)  [[Aphoom-Zhah]] is the progeny of [[Cthugha]], and likely spawned Gnoph-Keh, Rhan-Tegoth, and Voorm.
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 * [[Cthugha]]
 ** [[Aphoom-Zhah]]

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 ==Lin Carter and August Derleth==
-In [[Lin Carter]]'s [[Xothic Cycle]], [[Cthulhu]] is the father of [[Cthylla]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Ythogtha]], and [[Zoth-Ommog]].  (The supposed origin of [[Nyarlathotep]] and [[Hastur]] in the same star cluster is supposed to be suggestive in this connection, apparently building on suggestions from [[August Derleth]]'s ''[[Trail of Cthulhu (fiction)]]''.)
+In [[Lin Carter]]'s [[Xothic Cycle]], [[Cthulhu]] is the father of [[Cthylla]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Ythogtha]], and [[Zoth-Ommog]].  (The supposed origin of [[Nyarlathotep]] and [[Hastur]] in the same star cluster is supposed to be suggestive in this connection, apparently building on suggestions from [[August Derleth]]'s ''[[Trail of Cthulhu (fiction)]]''.)  [[Aphoom-Zhah]] is the progeny of [[Cthugha]].
 * [[Cthulhu]] and [[Idh-yaa]]
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 ** [[Zoth-Ommog]]
 * [[Hastur]] (Half-brother of Cthulhu)

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 In [[Lin Carter]]'s [[Xothic Cycle]], [[Cthulhu]] is the father of [[Cthylla]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Ythogtha]], and [[Zoth-Ommog]].  (The supposed origin of [[Nyarlathotep]] and [[Hastur]] in the same star cluster is supposed to be suggestive in this connection, apparently building on suggestions from [[August Derleth]]'s ''[[Trail of Cthulhu (fiction)]]''.)
-* [[Cthulhu]]
+* [[Cthulhu]] and [[Idh-yaa]]
 ** [[Cthylla]]
 ** [[Ghatanothoa]]

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−	There are at least two original "family trees" produced by members of the "Lovecraft Circle", including the charts made by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]]:	+	There are at least two original "family trees" produced by members of the "Lovecraft Circle", including the charts made by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]]; [[August Derleth]] and [[Lin Carter]] have also created their own:


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	(The phrasing of Smith's June 16th letter seems to suggest that Barlow may have previously supplied a "style sheet" for the family tree with a list of questions about it for Smith, and the resulting family tree was the result of Clark Ashton Smith humoring Barlow. For more details on Smith's chart, see: "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/nonfiction/45/the-family-tree-of-the-gods The Family Tree of the Gods]" at eldritchdark.com.)		(The phrasing of Smith's June 16th letter seems to suggest that Barlow may have previously supplied a "style sheet" for the family tree with a list of questions about it for Smith, and the resulting family tree was the result of Clark Ashton Smith humoring Barlow. For more details on Smith's chart, see: "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/nonfiction/45/the-family-tree-of-the-gods The Family Tree of the Gods]" at eldritchdark.com.)
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		+	==Lin Carter and August Derleth==
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		+	In [[Lin Carter]]'s [[Xothic Cycle]], [[Cthulhu]] is the father of [[Cthylla]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Ythoghtha]], and [[Zoth-Ommog]]. (The supposed origin of [[Nyarlathotep]] and [[Hastur]] in the same star cluster is supposed to be suggestive in this connection, apparently building on suggestions from [[August Derleth]]'s ''[[Trail of Cthulhu (fiction)]]''.)
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		+	* [[Cthulhu]]
		+	** [[Cthylla]]
		+	** [[Ghatanothoa]]
		+	** [[Ythoghtha]]
		+	** [[Zoth-Ommog]]
		+	* [[Hastur]] (Half-brother of Cthulhu)

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 * [[Azathoth]], parent of:
 ** [[Nyarlathotep]] (The ancient patrician gens Viburnia of Haex Respvblica.Romana)
-** [[The Nameless Mist]], parent of [[Yog-Sothoth]]
+** [[Nameless Mist]], parent of [[Yog-Sothoth]]
 ** [[Darkness]], parent of [[Shub-Niggurath]]
 * [[Nyarlathotep]] (The ancient patrician gens Viburnia of Haex Respvblica.Romana), ancestor of:

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-I'll now try to answer your questions, some of which have necessitated research into archives even darker and more obscure than those of the learned [[Pnom]]. [[Chushax]], or [[Zishaik]], of whose lineage I can learn only the most meager and dubious details, was the wife of [[Tsathoggua]]. Their offspring, [[Zvilpogglua]], was more male than anything else. The Immediate parent of [[Cthulhu]] and his race (child of [[Nug]]) was [[Ptmâk]]. The parent of [[Yhoundeh]] or [[Yhoundeh|Y'houndeh]] was the androgyne animal Archetype [[Zyhumé]], which still abides in that cavern of the Archetypes which was visited by the ill- starred [[Ralibar Vooz]] on his compulsive itinerations through the [[Hyperborea]]n underworld. [[Zyhumé]] a sort of nebulous and more or less spheroid elk. As to the marriage of [[Yhoundeh|Y'houndeh]] and the flute-player [[Nyarlathotep]], I am inclined to suspect that something of the sort is hinted or adumbrated by [[Pnom]]. I quote the reference: "[[Yhoundeh|Houndeh]] in the 3rd cycle of her divinity was covered by that spawn which pipes perennial the dire music of chaos and corruption." If this doesn't refer to the [[Azathoth]]ian flute-player, I'll undertake to drink a straight gallon of the next segur-whiskey that is imported from Mars.
+I'll now try to answer your questions, some of which have necessitated research into archives even darker and more obscure than those of the learned [[Pnom]]. [[Chushax]], or [[Zishaik]], of whose lineage I can learn only the most meager and dubious details, was the wife of [[Tsathoggua]]. Their offspring, [[Zvilpogghua|Zvilpogglua]], was more male than anything else. The Immediate parent of [[Cthulhu]] and his race (child of [[Nug and Yeb|Nug]]) was [[Ptmâk]]. The parent of [[Yhoundeh]] or [[Yhoundeh|Y'houndeh]] was the androgyne animal Archetype [[Zyhumé]], which still abides in that cavern of the Archetypes which was visited by the ill- starred [[Ralibar Vooz]] on his compulsive itinerations through the [[Hyperborea]]n underworld. [[Zyhumé]] a sort of nebulous and more or less spheroid elk. As to the marriage of [[Yhoundeh|Y'houndeh]] and the flute-player [[Nyarlathotep]], I am inclined to suspect that something of the sort is hinted or adumbrated by [[Pnom]]. I quote the reference: "[[Yhoundeh|Houndeh]] in the 3rd cycle of her divinity was covered by that spawn which pipes perennial the dire music of chaos and corruption." If this doesn't refer to the [[Azathoth]]ian flute-player, I'll undertake to drink a straight gallon of the next segur-whiskey that is imported from Mars.
 <br>- [[Clark Ashton Smith]], letter to [[R.H. Barlow]] on September 10, 1934
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