Idol of Bokrug

The Idol of Bokrug is first described in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)".

Description

Idol of Bokrug

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Thus of the very ancient city of Ib was nothing spared save the sea-green stone idol chiselled in the likeness of Bokrug, the water-lizard. This the young warriors took back with them to Sarnath as a symbol of conquest over the old gods and Beings of Ib, and a sign of leadership in Mnar. But on the night after it was set up in the temple a terrible thing must have happened, for weird lights were seen over the lake, and in the morning the people found the idol gone, and the high-priest Taran-Ish lying dead, as from some fear unspeakable. And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM. After Taran-Ish there were many high-priests in Sarnath, but never was the sea-green stone idol found.
— H.P. Lovecraft "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)"

A cursed idol of sea-green stone found in the Dreamland of Mnar, where it was worshiped in Ib by the cult of Bokrug the water-lizard; it was taken in conquest by the city of Sarnath after the cult was murdered, but lost on the night it brought doom upon the Temple of Sarnath and its priest, heralded by weird lights seen over the lake, escalating to the death of the priest, and culminating in a pronouncement of curse of DOOM that shortly afterward came upon Sarnath.

Appearances

• fiction: H.P. Lovecraft's "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)"

Associated Mythos Elements

• setting: Dreamlands
• location: Mnar, Ib, Sarnath, Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron on the winding River Ai
• tomes: Papyrus of Ilarnek and Brick Cylinders of Kadatheron (contain similar content describing the Beings of Ib and Cult of Bokrug)
• cult: Bokrug, the Water-Lizard
• race: Being of Ib