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Byatis (''the Serpent-Bearded'') is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos. The Great Old One was first mentioned in Robert Bloch's short story "The Shambler From the Stars", originally published in the September 1935 issue of ''Weird Tales''. It plays a central role in Ramsey Campbell's 1964 short story "The Room in the Castle". ==Summary== In Bloch's story, "serpent-bearded Byatis" is merely alluded to, along with "Father Yig" and "dark Han", as among the "gods of divination". The first full description of Byatis occurs in "The Room in the Castle" where an 18th-century document relates that a statue of the creature
Later the document says the monster is "somewhat like a Spider, somewhat like a Crab, and somewhat like a Campbell's story also quotes from ''De Vermis Mysteriis'' (an imaginary book invented, like Byatis, by Bloch):
The creature is depicted as incredibly large—one of its face tentacles is as thick as a man—which makes it about the size of the castle that it is trapped beneath. Byatis can be repelled by the Elder Sign. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Byatis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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