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	'''Gyaa-yothn''', or '''Gyaa-yoth''', may be described by deranged and confused observers as monstrous "Unicorns"; see also [[Gnophkeh]] and [[Gnoph-keh]]		'''Gyaa-yothn''', or '''Gyaa-yoth''', may be described by deranged and confused observers as monstrous "Unicorns"; see also [[Gnophkeh]] and [[Gnoph-keh]]

	Origin: (~~earliest known story/scenario the creature appears in, indicate whether this is uncertain~~)		Origin: "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]]

	==Description==		==Description==

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	==References==		==References==
	* Fiction: "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]]		* Fiction: "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]]
			* sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''



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	==Description==		==Description==
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			[[File:16thCenturyMonsterAfrica.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Gyaa-yothn as depicted in a 16th-Century Woodcut]]
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	"...He could not refrain from crying out in terror at what he saw when he passed through the great vine-draped pylons and emerged upon the ancient road. He did not wonder that the curious Wichita had fled in panic, and had to close his eyes a moment to retain his sanity.... He merely hinted at the shocking morbidity of these great floundering white things, with black fur on their backs, a rudimentary horn in the centre of their foreheads, and an unmistakable trace of human or anthropoid blood in their flatnosed, bulging-lipped faces. They were, he declared later in his manuscript, the most terrible objective entities he ever saw in his life, either in [[K'n-yan]] or in the outer world. And the specific quality of their supreme terror was something apart from any easily recognisable or describable feature. The main trouble was that they were not wholly products of Nature.... The flesh they ate was not that of intelligent people of the master-race, but merely that of a special slave-class which had for the most part ceased to be thoroughly human, and which indeed was the principal meat stock of [[K'n-yan]]. They - or their principal ancestral element - had first been found in a wild state amidst the Cyclopean ruins of the deserted red-litten world of [[Yoth]] which lay below the blue-litten world of [[K'n-yan]]...."		"...He could not refrain from crying out in terror at what he saw when he passed through the great vine-draped pylons and emerged upon the ancient road. He did not wonder that the curious Wichita had fled in panic, and had to close his eyes a moment to retain his sanity.... He merely hinted at the shocking morbidity of these great floundering white things, with black fur on their backs, a rudimentary horn in the centre of their foreheads, and an unmistakable trace of human or anthropoid blood in their flatnosed, bulging-lipped faces. They were, he declared later in his manuscript, the most terrible objective entities he ever saw in his life, either in [[K'n-yan]] or in the outer world. And the specific quality of their supreme terror was something apart from any easily recognisable or describable feature. The main trouble was that they were not wholly products of Nature.... The flesh they ate was not that of intelligent people of the master-race, but merely that of a special slave-class which had for the most part ceased to be thoroughly human, and which indeed was the principal meat stock of [[K'n-yan]]. They - or their principal ancestral element - had first been found in a wild state amidst the Cyclopean ruins of the deserted red-litten world of [[Yoth]] which lay below the blue-litten world of [[K'n-yan]]...."

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	'''Gyaa-yothn''', may be described by deranged and confused observers as monstrous "Unicorns"; see also [[Gnophkeh]] and [[Gnoph-keh]]		'''Gyaa-yothn''', or '''Gyaa-yoth''', may be described by deranged and confused observers as monstrous "Unicorns"; see also [[Gnophkeh]] and [[Gnoph-keh]]

	Origin: (earliest known story/scenario the creature appears in, indicate whether this is uncertain)		Origin: (earliest known story/scenario the creature appears in, indicate whether this is uncertain)

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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
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	"They had frightful beasts with a faint strain of human blood, on which they rode, and which they employed for other purposes. The things, so people hinted, were carnivorous, and like their masters, preferred human flesh; so that although the Old Ones themselves did not breed, they had a sort of half-human slave-class which also served to nourish the human and animal population. This had been very oddly recruited...."		"They had frightful beasts with a faint strain of human blood, on which they rode, and which they employed for other purposes. The things, so people hinted, were carnivorous, and like their masters, preferred human flesh; so that although the Old Ones themselves did not breed, they had a sort of half-human slave-class which also served to nourish the human and animal population. This had been very oddly recruited.... The men of Tsath had conquered and enslaved the rest (of their own race); interbreeding them with certain horned and four-footed animals of the red-litten region, whose semi-human leanings were very peculiar, and which, though containing a certain artificially created element, may have been in part the degenerate descendants of those peculiar entities who had left the relics.... The vanished inhabitants of Yoth had been quadrupedal. This much was known from the very few manuscripts and carvings found in the vaults of Zin, beneath the largest ruined city of Yoth.... The beings of Yoth had possessed the art of synthetically creating life, and had made and destroyed several efficiently designed races of industrial and transportational animals in the course of their history - to say nothing of concocting all manner of fantastic living shapes for the sake of amusement and new sensations during the long period of decadence. The beings of Yoth had undoubtedly been reptilian in affiliations, and most physiologists of Tsath agreed that the present beasts had been very much inclined toward reptilianism before they had been crossed with the mammal slave-class of K'n-yan..... This extensive slave-class was highly composite, being bred from ancient conquered enemies, from outer-world stragglers, from dead bodies curiously galvanised into effectiveness, and from the naturally inferior members of the ruling race of Tsath...."
	~~<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[~~The ~~Mound (fiction)]]"~~
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	"Formerly several races of them had inhabited the entire underground world, which stretched down to unfathomable abysses and which included besides the blue-litten region a red-litten region called [[Yoth]], where relics of a still older and non-human race were found by archaeologists. In the course of time, however, the men of ~~[[K'n-yan#Tsath\|~~Tsath]] had conquered and enslaved the rest; interbreeding them with certain horned and four-footed animals of the red-litten region, whose semi-human leanings were very peculiar, and which, though containing a certain artificially created element, may have been in part the degenerate descendants of those peculiar entities who had left the relics.... This extensive slave-class was highly composite, being bred from ancient conquered enemies, from outer-world stragglers, from dead bodies curiously galvanised into effectiveness, and from the naturally inferior members of the ruling race of Tsath...."
	<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"		<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
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	"They had frightful beasts with a faint strain of human blood, on which they rode, and which they employed for other purposes. The things, so people hinted, were carnivorous, and like their masters, preferred human flesh; so that although the Old Ones themselves did not breed, they had a sort of half-human slave-class which also served to nourish the human and animal population. This had been very oddly recruited, and was supplemented by a second slave-class of reanimated corpses. The Old Ones knew how to make a corpse into an automaton which would last almost indefinitely and perform any sort of work when directed by streams of thought...."		"They had frightful beasts with a faint strain of human blood, on which they rode, and which they employed for other purposes. The things, so people hinted, were carnivorous, and like their masters, preferred human flesh; so that although the Old Ones themselves did not breed, they had a sort of half-human slave-class which also served to nourish the human and animal population. This had been very oddly recruited...."
	<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"		<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
			<blockquote>
			"They had frightful beasts with a faint strain of human blood, on which they rode, and which they employed for other purposes. The things, so people hinted, were carnivorous, and like their masters, preferred human flesh; so that although the Old Ones themselves did not breed, they had a sort of half-human slave-class which also served to nourish the human and animal population. This had been very oddly recruited, and was supplemented by a second slave-class of reanimated corpses. The Old Ones knew how to make a corpse into an automaton which would last almost indefinitely and perform any sort of work when directed by streams of thought...."
			<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], "[[The Mound (fiction)]]"
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	"Formerly several races of them had inhabited the entire underground world, which stretched down to unfathomable abysses and which included besides the blue-litten region a red-litten region called [[Yoth]], where relics of a still older and non-human race were found by archaeologists. In the course of time, however, the men of [[K'n-yan#Tsath\|Tsath]] had conquered and enslaved the rest; interbreeding them with certain horned and four-footed animals of the red-litten region, whose semi-human leanings were very peculiar, and which, though containing a certain artificially created element, may have been in part the degenerate descendants of those peculiar entities who had left the relics.... This extensive slave-class was highly composite, being bred from ancient conquered enemies, from outer-world stragglers, from dead bodies curiously galvanised into effectiveness, and from the naturally inferior members of the ruling race of Tsath...."		"Formerly several races of them had inhabited the entire underground world, which stretched down to unfathomable abysses and which included besides the blue-litten region a red-litten region called [[Yoth]], where relics of a still older and non-human race were found by archaeologists. In the course of time, however, the men of [[K'n-yan#Tsath\|Tsath]] had conquered and enslaved the rest; interbreeding them with certain horned and four-footed animals of the red-litten region, whose semi-human leanings were very peculiar, and which, though containing a certain artificially created element, may have been in part the degenerate descendants of those peculiar entities who had left the relics.... This extensive slave-class was highly composite, being bred from ancient conquered enemies, from outer-world stragglers, from dead bodies curiously galvanised into effectiveness, and from the naturally inferior members of the ruling race of Tsath...."

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	* Note that the description of Gyaa-yothn vaguely resembles that of the allegedly bear-like unicorn [[Gnoph-keh]], as well as the monstrously proto-humanoid [[Gnophkeh]]; one might suggest a correspondence of the three creatures as relatives, separated only by the degree of biological meddling by the [[People of K'n-yan]] ranging from the basic "inferior" humanoid stock (Gnophkeh), to the monstrously sub-human (Gnoph-keh).		* Note that the description of Gyaa-yothn vaguely resembles that of the allegedly bear-like unicorn [[Gnoph-keh]], as well as the monstrously proto-humanoid [[Gnophkeh]]; one might suggest a correspondence of the three creatures as relatives, separated only by the degree of biological meddling by the [[People of K'n-yan]] ranging from the basic "inferior" humanoid stock (Gnophkeh), to the monstrously sub-human (Gnoph-keh).
			* "The Mound" refers to a quadrupedal reptilian race dwelling in Yoth which had been interbred with various other races to create the Gyaa-yothn stock; these quadrupeds appear to be the descendants of [[Serpent People]], and might also resemble the [[Reptile People]] of "The Nameless City".