Abhoth

[CAS Seven (online text)]: The ultimate source of all miscreation and abomination. In ancient Hyperborea, it lived in a muddy pool in a deep cavern under Mount Voormithadreth, on the same level as the Cavern of the Archetypes. "For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually; and from it, in manifold fission, were spawned the anatomies that crept away on every side through the grotto . . . all manner of things malformed and monstrous, that grew in size as they departed from the neighborhood of Abhoth. And those that swam not swiftly ashore when they fell into the pool from Abhoth, were devoured by mouths that gaped in the parent bulk."

Abhoth refused to eat the human Ralibar Vooz, insisting that Vooz was not one of its relatives or progeny, and therefore represented an untried article of diet. Abhoth ordered Vooz back to the Outer World.

Abhoth resembles the description of Ubbo-Sathla. Abhoth is also reminiscent of Clark Ashton Smith's statement "Azathoth, the primal nuclear chaos, reproduced of course only by fission; but its progeny, entering various outer planets, often took on attributes of androgynism or bisexuality. The androgynes, curiously, required no coadjutancy in the production of offspring . . ." (see The Family Tree of the Gods).

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