Azathoth Family Tree
"The Family Tree of Azathoth", or "Genealogy of the Elder Races", AKA "Letter 617"
To James F. Morton dated April 27th 1933, SELECTED LETTERS IV, H. P. Lovecraft
This whimsical family tree purports to show the family relationship of Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Tsathoggua, and others to each other, and to Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.
Azathoth
_____________________|_______________________________
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Nyarlathotep The Nameless Mist Darkness
(The ancient patrician | |
gens Viburnia of Haec Yog-Sothoth--------|--------Shub-Niggurath
RESPUBLICA.ROMANA) |
| |-----------------------------|
| Nug Yeb
L. Viburnius Marco | |
| Cthulhu* Tsathoggua*
P. Viburnius Marco | |
Legatus of Legio Shaurash-ho Yabou
11., station'd at | |
Isca Silurium, in Yogash the Ghoul Nush the Eternal
Brittania Secunda | |
in A.D. 103 K'baa the Serpent Gilles Grenier,
| | Lord of Averoigne
| | |
Viburnia-------**-----Ghoth the Burrower Hippolyte Le Sorcier,
| (one of the Little People) ancestor of Clark
Llunwy of Wales Ashton Smith
ancestor of Owen
Gwynedd and of H.P.L.
*First of their respective lines to inhabit this planet.
**This union was an hellish and nameless tragedy
The letter mentions:
- Azathoth, parent of:
- Nyarlathotep (The ancient patrician gens Viburnia of Haex Respvblica.Romana)
- The Nameless Mist, parent of Yog-Sothoth
- Darkness, parent of Shub-Niggurath
- Nyarlathotep (The ancient patrician gens Viburnia of Haex Respvblica.Romana), ancestor of:
- L. Viburnius Marco
- P. Viburnius Marco, Legatus of Legio II., station'd at Isca Silurum, in Britannia Secunda in A.D. 103
- ....Viburnia A
- Llunwy of Wales, ancestor of Owen Gwynedd and of H.P. Lovecraft.
- Shub-Niggurath + Yog-Sothoth, ancestors of:
- Nug
- Cthulhu (First of its respective line to inhabit this planet)
- Shaurash-ho
- Yogash the Ghoul
- K'baa the Serpent
- Ghoth the Burrower (one of the Little People) + Viburnia A, ancestors of the Lovecraft family - "This union was an hellish and nameless tragedy."
- Yeb
- Tsathoggua (First of its respective line to inhabit this planet)
- Yabou
- Nush the Eternal
- Gilles Grenier, Lord of Averoigne
- Hippolyte le Sorcier, ancestor of Clark Ashton Smith
- Nug
