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	Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.		Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.
	Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.		Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.
	He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old Ones (~~Dieties~~)#Table of Great Old Ones\|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah\|Aphoom-Zhah]].		He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old Ones (Deities)#Table of Great Old Ones\|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah\|Aphoom-Zhah]].

	Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.		Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.

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	==Ithaqua in the mythos==		==Ithaqua in the mythos==

	Ithaqua is one of the [[Great Old Ones (~~Dieties~~)\|Great Old Ones]] and appears as a horrifying giant with a roughly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the [[Arctic]] to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely, and is said to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.		Ithaqua is one of the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)\|Great Old Ones]] and appears as a horrifying giant with a roughly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the [[Arctic]] to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely, and is said to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.

	Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.		Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.

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	Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.		Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.
	Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.		Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.
	He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old Ones#Table of Great Old Ones\|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah\|Aphoom-Zhah]].		He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old Ones (Dieties)#Table of Great Old Ones\|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah\|Aphoom-Zhah]].

	Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.		Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.

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	Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.		Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.
	Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.		Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.
	He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old ~~One~~#Table of Great Old Ones\|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah\|Aphoom-Zhah]].		He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old Ones#Table of Great Old Ones\|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah\|Aphoom-Zhah]].

	Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.		Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.

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	==Ithaqua in the mythos==		==Ithaqua in the mythos==

	Ithaqua is one of the [[Great Old ~~One~~]]s and appears as a horrifying giant with a roughly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the [[Arctic]] to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely, and is said to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.		Ithaqua is one of the [[Great Old Ones (Dieties)\|Great Old Ones]] and appears as a horrifying giant with a roughly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the [[Arctic]] to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely, and is said to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.

	Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.		Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.

Leonardolad at 16:21, 1 March 2016

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	Anders Fager's "The Wish of the Broken Man" describes how 18th-century Scandinavian Saami worship "Ittakka" and calls up on him to create blizzards. It also fingers Ittakka/Ithaqua as responsible for the 1718 Carolean Death March.		Anders Fager's "The Wish of the Broken Man" describes how 18th-century Scandinavian Saami worship "Ittakka" and calls up on him to create blizzards. It also fingers Ittakka/Ithaqua as responsible for the 1718 Carolean Death March.

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'''Ithaqua''' (the ''Wind-Walker'' or the ''[[Wendigo]]'') is a fictional character in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. The titular creature debuted in [[August Derleth]]'s short story "Ithaqua", which was based on [[Algernon Blackwood]]'s tale "The Wendigo". It controls snow, ice and cold, and can walk through the sky as easily as it walks on earth. Derleth was inspired by Blackwood's tale (who himself based the Wendigo on a creature from Native American Indian legend), but gave the creature a Lovecraftian name.

==Ithaqua in the mythos==

Ithaqua is one of the [[Great Old One]]s and appears as a horrifying giant with a roughly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the [[Arctic]] to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely, and is said to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.

Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices for Ithaqua—not as worship but as appeasement.
Those who join his cult will gain the ability to be completely unaffected by cold.
He often uses [[Shantak]]s, a dragon-like "lesser race", as servitors. A race of subhuman cannibals, the [[Gnophkeh]]s, also worshiped him, along with [[Great Old One#Table of Great Old Ones|Rhan-Tegoth]] and [[Lin Carter deities#Aphoom-Zhah|Aphoom-Zhah]].

Ithaqua figures prominently in [[Brian Lumley]]'s Lovecraft-based ''Titus Crow'' series, ruling the ice-world of Borea. In Lumley's works, Ithaqua periodically treads the winds of space between Earth and Borea, bringing helpless victims back to Borea to worship him among its snowy wastes. He frequently attempts to reproduce with humanoid females, hoping to create offspring which can surpass his own limitations, imposed by the Elder Gods, and so help free the rest of the Great Old Ones. It is suggested that Ithaqua has the ulterior motive of desiring offspring to assuage his bitter loneliness, as he is the only one of his kind. None of his surviving offspring to date has accommodated him, all turning against him at some point.

Anders Fager's "The Wish of the Broken Man" describes how 18th-century Scandinavian Saami worship "Ittakka" and calls up on him to create blizzards. It also fingers Ittakka/Ithaqua as responsible for the 1718 Carolean Death March.