Shub-Niggurath

"Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!"

- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"

Shub-Niggurath, also known as the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, is an Outer God and a major deity from the Lovecraftian Pantheon.

She is the Goddess of Motherhood, Children, Child-birth, Nature, and Darkness. She is the Mother Earth Goddess of the Pantheon, responsible for the birth of countless minor deities, known as the Dark Youngs of Shub-Niggurath.

She is the Avatar of the Demon Goddess Suenna, who symbolizes the transgression against the Divine Laws, and her second-in-command in Suenna's personal group, known as the Court of Sin.

She is a part of the Apocalyptic Forces, responsible for getting the Lovecraftian deities to involve in the Final Conflict. She is also one of the candidates for the role of the "Whore of Babylon", along with her mistress Suenna and the Empress of Hell Lilith.

She is the first-born of the Emperors of Hell, Nameless Mist and Unnamed Darkness - Former Primordials and the first-born children of the Progenitor Azathoth. She is the consort of her half-brother Yog-Sothoth and her son Hastur.