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-Shub-Niggurath is believed to have mated with [[Hastur]] to produce the beings [[Ithaqua]], [[Zhar (Great Old One)|Zhar and Lloigor]], and an unnamed triplet of the latter. Hastur may also be the father of her "Thousand Young" or "Dark Young", though there is a good chance that they were spawned by fission. She may possibly have mated with [[Yog-Sothoth]] to produce [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Nug_and_Yeb|Nug and Yeb]] (though their father is more likely Hastur), and even [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Yig|Yig]] to produce [[Byatis]] (which is debatable since some
+Shub-Niggurath is believed to have mated with [[Hastur]] to produce the beings [[Ithaqua]], [[Zhar and Lloigor]], and an unnamed triplet of the latter. Hastur may also be the father of her "Thousand Young" or "Dark Young", though there is a good chance that they were spawned by fission. She may possibly have mated with [[Yog-Sothoth]] to produce [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Nug_and_Yeb|Nug and Yeb]] (though their father is more likely Hastur), and even [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Yig|Yig]] to produce [[Byatis]] (which is debatable since some
 ==The Black Goat==

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 <br>&mdash;H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, "The Mound"
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-Of all the mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath is probably the most extensively worshiped. Her worshipers include the [[Hyperborean|Hyperboreans]], the [[Mu|Muvians]], and the people of [[Sarnath]], as well as any number of druidic and barbaric cults. She is also worshiped by the non-human species of the mythos, such as the "Fungi from [[Yuggoth]]" (the [[Mi-Go]]) and the [[Nug-Soth]] of [[Yaddith]] (Footnote #1). {{ref|THEp275}}
+Of all the mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath is probably the most extensively worshiped. Her worshipers include the [[Hyperborean|Hyperboreans]], the [[Mu|Muvians]], and the people of [[Sarnath]], as well as any number of druidic and barbaric cults. She is also worshiped by the non-human species of the mythos, such as the "Fungi from [[Yuggoth]]" (the [[Mi-Go]]) and the [[Denizens of Yaddith|Nug-Soth]] of [[Yaddith]] (Footnote #1). {{ref|THEp275}}
 With the proper occult paraphernalia, Shub-Niggurath can be summoned to any woodlands at the time of the new moon. However, the place from whence she comes is not known. One possibility is that she dwells at the court of [[Azathoth]] at the center of the universe. She may also live beneath the planet Yaddith, where she is served by the [[Dhole|Dholes]]. It is also possible that she lives in another dimension altogether (Footnote #1). {{ref|THEp275}}

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 ==The Black Goat==
-Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet ''The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young'', it is possible that the ''Black Goat'' is a separate entity. Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in "Out of the Aeons" (1935) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped. The most persuasive distinction, however, is the depiction of the Black Goat as a male, most notably in the rite performed in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" (1931) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods".
+Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet ''The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young'', it is possible that the ''Black Goat'' is a separate entity. Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in "Out of the Aeons" (1935) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped. The most persuasive distinction, however, is the depiction of the Black Goat as a male, most notably in the rite performed in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)]]" (1931) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods".
-The Black Goat may be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by [[Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan]]'' ([[1890s|1890]]), a story that probably inspired Lovecraft's "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" ([[1929]]). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent Satan in the form of the satyr, a half-man, half-goat. In folklore, the satyr symbolized a man with excessive sexual apetites. The Black Goat may otherwise be a male, earthly form of Shub-Niggurath&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;an incarnation she assumes to copulate with her worshipers (Footnote #3). {{ref|TQoSN}}
+The Black Goat may be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by [[Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan (fiction)]]'' ([[1890s|1890]]), a story that probably inspired Lovecraft's "[[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]]" ([[1929]]). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent Satan in the form of the satyr, a half-man, half-goat. In folklore, the satyr symbolized a man with excessive sexual apetites. The Black Goat may otherwise be a male, earthly form of Shub-Niggurath&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;an incarnation she assumes to copulate with her worshipers (Footnote #3). {{ref|TQoSN}}
 ==Appearances in other fiction==
-Both [[Stephen King]] and [[Terry Pratchett]] have referenced Shub-Niggurath in their works. Terry Pratchett parodies Lovecraftian gods, referring to them as the things from the "Dungeon Dimensions". For example, in Pratchett's ''Moving Pictures]]'', the being "Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young" kills its victims by showing them pictures of its children until their brains implode.
+Both [[Stephen King]] and [[Terry Pratchett]] have referenced Shub-Niggurath in their works. Terry Pratchett parodies Lovecraftian gods, referring to them as the things from the "Dungeon Dimensions". For example, in Pratchett's ''[[Moving Pictures]]'', the being "Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young" kills its victims by showing them pictures of its children until their brains implode.
 Some of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' spin-off novels have identified the Nestene Consciousness (the being which animates the [[Auton]]s) as one of the offspring of Shub-Niggurath. The connection was first drawn in ''Millennial Rites'' by Craig Hinton, and has been followed up in other appearances of the Consciousness in the novels.
 ==Other appearances==
-* A Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath is the final adversary of the first-person shooter computer game ''Quake''.
+* A Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath is the final adversary of the first-person shooter computer game ''[[Quake]]''.
 * Shub-Niggurath makes an appearance as the main villain in the online PC game ''Arcane 2: The Stone Circle''.
 * In ''Bruno the Bandit'', one of the denizens of the demon world is "Shub-Megawrath", a goat-like blob creature with a thousand children (1001, if you count the croatoan clone of Bruno she created). The character is meant to be another of the Lovecraft references that occasionally pepper the strip.
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 ===Footnotes===
 # {{note|TECp275}} Harms, "Shub-Niggurath", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 275.
-# {{note|TML_CP}} Campbell, "The Moon-Lens", ''Cold Print''.
+# {{note|TML_CP}} Campbell, "[[The Moon-Lens (fiction)]]", ''[[Cold Print (fiction)]]''.
 # {{note|TQoSN}} Ferraresi, "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", ''Crypt of Cthulhu #35'', pp. 17&ndash;8, 22.

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 * Shub-Niggurath is the name of an old Mexican black/death metal band (albums: ''Horror Creatures'' Demo, 1990; ''Unknown Adorer'' EP, 1991; ''Blasphemies Of Nether World'' EP, 1992; ''The Black Goatlike Arise'' Demo, 1993; ''Evilness And Darkness Prevails'' Full-length, 1994; ''The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)'' Full-length, 1997).
 * Shub-Niggurath is mentioned by the band Morbid Angel in their song "Angel of Disease".
-* Shub-Niggurath is a boss in the 2017 video game ''South Park: The Fractured but Whole'' where the police officers are feeding him the town's African-American residents.
+* Shub-Niggurath is a boss in the 2017 video game ''South Park: The Fractured but Whole'' where the police officers are feeding her the town's African-American residents.

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	* Shub-Niggurath is the name of an old Mexican black/death metal band (albums: ''Horror Creatures'' Demo, 1990; ''Unknown Adorer'' EP, 1991; ''Blasphemies Of Nether World'' EP, 1992; ''The Black Goatlike Arise'' Demo, 1993; ''Evilness And Darkness Prevails'' Full-length, 1994; ''The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)'' Full-length, 1997).		* Shub-Niggurath is the name of an old Mexican black/death metal band (albums: ''Horror Creatures'' Demo, 1990; ''Unknown Adorer'' EP, 1991; ''Blasphemies Of Nether World'' EP, 1992; ''The Black Goatlike Arise'' Demo, 1993; ''Evilness And Darkness Prevails'' Full-length, 1994; ''The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)'' Full-length, 1997).
	* Shub-Niggurath is mentioned by the band Morbid Angel in their song "Angel of Disease".		* Shub-Niggurath is mentioned by the band Morbid Angel in their song "Angel of Disease".
		+	* Shub-Niggurath is a boss in the 2017 video game ''South Park: The Fractured but Whole'' where the police officers are feeding him the town's African-American residents.

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 ==Shub-Niggurath in the mythos==
 Shub-Niggurath is an [[Outer God]] in the pantheon. She is a perverse fertility deity said to appear as an enormous cloudy mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths, and short, writhing goat legs. Small creatures are spat forth, which are either reconsumed into the miasmatic form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere.
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 <br>&mdash;H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, "The Man of Stone"
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-Shub-Niggurath is believed to have mated with [[Hastur]] to produce the beings [[Ithaqua]], [[Zhar (Great Old One)|Zhar and Lloigor]], and an unnamed triplet of the latter. Hastur may also be the father of her "Thousand Young" or "Dark Young", though there is a good chance that they were spawned by fission. She may possibly have mated with [[Yog-Sothoth]] to produce [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Nug_and_Yeb|Nug and Yeb]] (though their father is more likely Hastur), and even [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Yig|Yig]] to produce [[Byatis]] (which is debatable since some believe her to be Yig's mother, though he may be the offspring of [[Mappo no Ryûjin]]).
-==Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath==
+Shub-Niggurath is believed to have mated with [[Hastur]] to produce the beings [[Ithaqua]], [[Zhar (Great Old One)|Zhar and Lloigor]], and an unnamed triplet of the latter. Hastur may also be the father of her "Thousand Young" or "Dark Young", though there is a good chance that they were spawned by fission. She may possibly have mated with [[Yog-Sothoth]] to produce [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Nug_and_Yeb|Nug and Yeb]] (though their father is more likely Hastur), and even [[Great_Old_One_compendium#Yig|Yig]] to produce [[Byatis]] (which is debatable since some
-<blockquote>	Something black in the road, something that wasn't a tree. Something big and black and ropy, just squatting there, waiting, with ropy arms squirming and reaching. . . It came crawling up the hillside. . . and it was the black thing of my dreams &ndash; that black, ropy, slime jelly tree-thing out of the woods. It crawled up and it flowed up on its hoofs and mouths and snaky arms.
 ==The Black Goat==
 Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet ''The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young'', it is possible that the ''Black Goat'' is a separate entity. Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in "Out of the Aeons" (1935) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped. The most persuasive distinction, however, is the depiction of the Black Goat as a male, most notably in the rite performed in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" (1931) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods".

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 The '''gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath''' is the name given to the favored, once-human worshipers of Shub-Niggurath. When the deity deems a worshiper to be most worthy, a special ceremony is held in which the Black Goat of the Woods swallows the initiate and then regurgitates the cultist as a transformed [[satyr]]-like being. A changed worshiper is also endowed with immortal life (Footnote #2). {{ref|TML_CP}}
 ==The Black Goat==
-Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet ''The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young'', it is possible that the ''Black Goat'' is a separate entity. Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in "Out of the Aeons" ([[1935 in literature|1935]]) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped. The most persuasive distinction, however, is the depiction of the Black Goat as a male, most notably in the rite performed in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" ([[1931 in literature|1931]]) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods".
+Although Shub-Niggurath is often associated with the epithet ''The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young'', it is possible that the ''Black Goat'' is a separate entity. Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in "Out of the Aeons" (1935) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped. The most persuasive distinction, however, is the depiction of the Black Goat as a male, most notably in the rite performed in "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]" (1931) in which the Black Goat is called the "Lord of the Woods".
-The Black Goat may be the personification of [[Pan (mythology)|Pan]], since Lovecraft was influenced by [[Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan]]'' ([[1890 in literature|1890]]), a story that probably inspired Lovecraft's "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" ([[1929 in literature|1929]]). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent [[Satan]] in the form of the [[satyr]], a half-man, half-goat. In folklore, the satyr symbolized a man with excessive sexual apetites. The Black Goat may otherwise be a male, earthly form of Shub-Niggurath&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;an incarnation she assumes to copulate with her worshipers (Footnote #3). {{ref|TQoSN}}
+The Black Goat may be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by [[Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan]]'' ([[1890s|1890]]), a story that probably inspired Lovecraft's "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" ([[1929]]). In this incarnation, the Black Goat may represent Satan in the form of the satyr, a half-man, half-goat. In folklore, the satyr symbolized a man with excessive sexual apetites. The Black Goat may otherwise be a male, earthly form of Shub-Niggurath&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;an incarnation she assumes to copulate with her worshipers (Footnote #3). {{ref|TQoSN}}
 ==Appearances in other fiction==
 Both [[Stephen King]] and [[Terry Pratchett]] have referenced Shub-Niggurath in their works. Terry Pratchett parodies Lovecraftian gods, referring to them as the things from the "[[Dungeon Dimensions]]". For example, in Pratchett's ''[[Moving Pictures (novel)|Moving Pictures]]'', the being "Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young" kills its victims by showing them pictures of its children until their brains implode.