Gol-goroth

The greatest god of Bal-Sagoth. A god of darkness, whose mighty statue sat in the Temple of Shadows, sinister and abhorrent, with inhuman features. Youths were sacrificed to Gol-goroth at the waxing and the waning, the rising and the setting of each moon. The high priest of Gol-goroth was Gothan. Brunhild, posing as the goddess A-ala, ordered Its image destroyed, but the hammers shattered, and those who wielded them were strangely injured. So Brunhild ordered the temple of Gol-goroth sealed. After Brunhild was overthrown, the priests of A-ala were sacrificed on the altars of Gol-goroth. After Brunhild's return to power, the statue of Gol-goroth fell forward and crushed her, shattering as it did so. [REH Gods (online text)]

John Kirowan admitted the former existence of cults such as the cult of Gol-goroth, but doubted that they had survived to the present day [REH Children (online text)].

Aka: Black God.

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