Chaugnar Faugn

The elephant-headed god of the desert plateau of Tsang. Its cave was guarded day and night by hideous yellow abnormalities: subhuman worshippers without faces. Its guardians often disappeared during the night, leaving only their clothes, with certain ghastly traces. [FBL Hills (online text)]

Description

Chaugnar has a chubby, anthropoid body and an elephant-like head. The ears are webbed and tentacled, and the trunk ends in a large flat disk. It sits upright with hands folded on its lap, exuding a Buddha-like calm together with the malignancy of a gorgon. It has stumpy legs and leaves phosphorescent tracks.

From its stillness and stone-like material, it appears to be a statue, but it awakens to drink the blood of its devotees. Without blood to feast on, Chaugnar suffers torments that no man could endure.

Chaugnar's Toad-Men

Thousands of years ago, when Chaugnar dwelt in a cave in the Pyrenees, he created a race of small, dark, human-like beings to serve him. Chaugnar sent its servants forth to collect youths and maidens, who were preserved in spices and stored in the cave until Chaugnar had need of them.

Chaugnar's Brothers

Chaugnar had brothers who also lived in the Pyrenees. Chaugnar and they conversed by means of thought-transference. After the arrival of the Roman legions, Chaugnar decided to move to Asia, but his brothers decided to remain. Then Chaugnar cursed his brothers, proclaiming that when the time frames are dissolved, he alone will arise to glory, and he will consume his brothers.

In modern times, the high priest Chung Ga said that Chaugnar's brothers would destroy Clark Ulman if he attempted to dispose of the god. This makes it sound like Chaugnar's brothers are still allied to him in some way.

Roger Little speculated that Chaugnar and its brothers are incarnate manifestations of a single hyperdimensional entity or principal.

The Prophecy of Mu Sang

After deciding to leave the Pyrenees, Chaugnar called for servants and had them carry him to the plateau of Tsang. He caused the prophet Mu Sang to be born from the womb of an ape. Mu Sang prophecied that someday Chaugnar would be carried forth into the world by the White Acoloyte, and that It would devour all things, even its own Brothers, and fill space with its Oneness.

In modern times, Clark Ulman persuaded Chung Ga that he was the White Acolyte of the prophecy who would carry Chaugnar forth into the world. Chaugnar fed on Ulman's blood during the trip to America, causing Ulman to become terribly disfigured. After Ulman died, a loathsome greenish trunk on his face continued to wave about for hours.

Escape from New York

Chaugnar was placed on display in the Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts. Chaugnar killed a museum guard named Cinney during the night, leaving him blackened and shrunken, with his face eaten off. Later, Chaugnar disappeared from the museum. Shortly after, several violent deaths were reported in midtown Manhattan. Then Chaugnar proceeded to the New Jersey coast and perpetrated a massacre near Asbury Park. Roger Little, Henry Imbert, and Algernon Harris pursued Chaugnar along the New Jersey shoreline and destroyed him with an entropy-reversing beam, which reduced Chaugnar to the slime from which he was originally formed. Thus the prophecy of Mu Sang was thwarted.

Rampage in the Pyrenees

Shortly after Chaugnar's arrival in New York, his brothers in the Pyrenees emerged and massacred fifteen peasants, leaving their bodies drained of blood. The Brooklyn Standard rushed out a sensational morning extra to report it. When Chaugnar perished, his brothers did also, leaving pools of black slime in the snow.

Nature

According to Chung Ga, Chaugnar is a great god, utterly cosmic and unanthropormophic, with no regard for our ideas of good and evil. "Before it incarnated itself in time, it contained within itself the past, the present, and the future."

According to Roger Little, Chaugnar and its brothers are incarnate manifestations of a single hyperdimensional entity or principal. Little believed that Chaugnar is not truly a god, but a limited being, the spawn of remote worlds and unholy dimensions.

Other References

In the poem When Chaugnar Wakes, Chaugnar Faugn is said to live on a planet beyond the edge of space, within a glowing cone. It drinks dark nurture through its ropy arms from lava-pools. Its face is marked by hate and fury. When Chaugnar wakes, it will venture forth to other stars and planets, including perhaps Earth [FBL Chaugnar (online text)]. Possibly the poem is describing a scene from the distant past, before Chaugnar first came here.

Rogers' Museum included a figure of proboscidian Chaugnar Faugn [HPL Museum (online text)].

According to the Rajah of Jadhore, Chaugnar Faugn is another name of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha [RB Elephant (online text)].

Winfield Phillips read about Chaugnar Faugn, the vampiric feeder, in books and photostats of books from Miskatonic University Library [AWD Lurker]. Paul Tuttle told Haddon of Chaugnar Faugn [Hastur].

A little man told Doctor Wycherly that the Book includes information on ponderous and proboscidian Chaugnar Faugn [HH Guardian].

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