Bokrug

A great water-lizard, worshipped by the beings of Ib, who danced horribly before its sea-green stone idol when the moon was gibbous. When the men of Mnar destroyed Ib, they spared nothing except the statue of Bokrug. But on the night after it was set up in the temple in Sarnath, weird lights were seen over the lake. In the morning the people found the idol gone, and the high-priest Taran-Ish lying dead, as from some fear unspeakable. Before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite the sign of DOOM. Over the following centuries, the priests of Mnar performed a very secret and ancient rite in detestation of Bokrug, the water-lizard, in a high tower near the altar which bore Taran-Ish's DOOM-scrawl. On the thousandth anniversary of the destruction of Ib, the city of Sarnath was destroyed by the Ib creatures, or perhaps by their ghosts. Where the city had been, there remained only a swamp and the statue of Bokrug. That idol, enshrined in the high temple at Ilarnek, was subsequently worshipped beneath the gibbous moon throughout the land of Mnar. [HPL Doom (online text)]

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