

In Out of the Aeons, she is one of the deities siding with humanity against "hostile gods". He describes her as a kind of Astarte in the same story. Lovecraft explicitly defined Shub-Niggurath as a mother goddess in The Mound, where he calls her "Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother". Most of her development as a literary figure was carried out by other Mythos authors, including August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Ramsey Campbell. Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" ( 1928) she is not described by Lovecraft, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. The only other name by which Lovecraft referred to her was "Lord of the Wood" in his story The Whisperer in Darkness. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young".

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