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Tsathoggua (the ''Sleeper of N'kai'', also known as Zhothaqquah) is a supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe. He is the creation of Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle. Tsathoggua/Zhothaqquah is described as an Old One, a godlike being from the pantheon. He was invented in Smith's short story "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros", written in 1929 and published in the November 1931 issue of ''Weird Tales''.〔Robert M. Price, "About 'The Tale of Satampra Zeiros'", ''The Tsathoggua Cycle'', p. 56.〕 His first appearance in print, however, was in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Whisperer in Darkness", written in 1930 and published in the August 1931 ''Weird Tales''. ==Description== The first description of Tsathoggua occurs in "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros", in which the protagonists encounter one of the entity's idols: Later, in Smith's "The Seven Geases" (1933), Tsathoggua is described again: Robert M. Price notes that "Lovecraft's Tsathoggua and Smith's differ at practically every point". Lovecraft, dropping Smith's bat and sloth comparisons, refers to the entity in "The Whisperer in Darkness" as the "amorphous, toad-like god-creature mentioned in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon and the Commoriom myth-cycle preserved by the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton"〔H. P. Lovecraft, ("The Whisperer in Darkness", ) ''The Dunwich Horror and Others''.〕 (the priest's name was Lovecraft's nickname for Tsathoggua's creator). Later, in "The Horror in the Museum", a story ghost-written by Lovecraft, he writes, He also mentions it in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', in a paragraph mentioning several other gods. 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「Tsathoggua」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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