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:''For the French zeuhl band named after it, see Shub-Niggurath (band).'' Shub-Niggurath, often associated with the phrase “The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”, is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The only other name by which H. P. Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story "The Whisperer in Darkness". Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); she is not described by Lovecraft, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. Most of her development as a literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell. August Derleth classified Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One, but the ''Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game classifies her as an Outer God. The ''CthulhuTech'' role-playing game, in turn, returns to Derleth's classification of Shub-Niggurath as a Great Old One. ==Development== Shub-Niggurath's appearances in Lovecraft's main body of fiction do not provide much detail about his conception of the entity. Her first mention under Lovecraft's byline was in ''The Dunwich Horror'' (1928), where a quote from the ''Necronomicon'' discussing the Old Ones breaks into an exclamation of "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!"〔H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror", ''The Dunwich Horror and Others'', p. 170.〕 The story provides no further information about this peculiar expression. The next Lovecraft story to mention Shub-Niggurath is scarcely more informative. In "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1930), a recording of a ceremony involving human and nonhuman worshipers includes the following exchange: Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Similarly unexplained exclamations occur in "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932) 〔H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House", ''At the Mountains of Madness'', p. 293.〕 and "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933).〔H. P. Lovecraft, "The Thing on the Doorstep", ''The Dunwich Horror and Others'', pp. 287, 296.〕 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「Shub-Niggurath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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