Azathoth Family Tree

There are at least two original "family trees" produced by members of the "Lovecraft Circle", including the charts made by H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith:

H.P. Lovecraft

"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.

Apparently, Lovecraft wrote the chart in response to a remark from James F. Morton claiming relationship to Jupiter (perhaps in a humorous signature to Morton's letter?): Lovecraft prefaced the chart with the introduction, "Hail, Offspring of Jove! ...Alas - I have only daemons behind me...." (link)

                         Azathoth
       _____________________|_______________________________
       |                       |                           |
       |                       |                           |
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

Azathoth Family Tree: "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

Clark Ashton Smith

Azathoth Family Tree created by Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith created an alternative family tree (from a letter to R.H. Barlow dated June 16th 1934), mentioning:

• Azathoth (reproduced by fission)
  • Cxaxukluth (androgyne)
    • Tulu
    • Hzioulquoigmnzhah (male)
    • Ghizguth (male) C
      • Tsathoggua D
        • Zvilpogghua
          • Sfatlicllp (daughter who mated with Voormi]]
            • Knygathin Zhaum (peopled Commoriom by fission after the human residents had left)
      • Shathak D
• Ycnagnnisssz (fissionary being from the dark star Zoth)
  • Zstulzhemgni (female) C

(The phrasing of Smith's letter seems to suggest that Barlow may have previously supplied a "style sheet" for the family tree with a list of questions about it for Smith, and the resulting family tree was the result of Clark Ashton Smith humoring Barlow. For more details on Smith's chart, see: "The Family Tree of the Gods" at eldritchdark.com.)