Knygathin Zhaum

Knygathin Zhaum, the half-breed

Origin: (uncertain; appears to be a creation of Clark Ashton Smith, and perhaps only mentioned in that author's "Family Tree of the Gods")

In the Mythos

Knygathin Zhaum, the half-breed Voormi son of the Great Old One Sfatlicllp, reverted to the most primitive Azathothian characteristics of androgynous reproductive fission following the stress of his numerous decapitations. The "Testament of Athammaus" relates a terrible and abominable legend telling how a certain doughty citizen of Commoriom (not Athammaus) returned to the city after its public evacuation, and found that it was peopled most execrably and numerously by the fissional spawn of Knygathin Zhaum, a spawn which possessed no vestige of anything human or even earthly. ("The Family Tree of the Gods" by Clark Ashton Smith)

Heresies and Controversies

• This Great Old One was mentioned by Clark Ashton Smith in his "Family Tree of the Gods".

Associated Mythos Elements and Keeper Notes

• Mentioned in the Genealogical Parchments of Pnom

References

• Essay: "The Family Tree of the Gods" by Clark Ashton Smith
• Fiction: "The Testament of Athammaus" by Clark Ashton Smith