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Nug and Yeb, the Twin Blasphemies, spawn of Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth. Nug is the parent of Cthulhu and the parent of Kthanid via the influence of Yog-Sothoth. Nug is a god among ghouls, while Yeb is the leader of Abhoth's alien cult. Both Nug and Yeb closely resemble Shub-Niggurath.Or least, so claims Wikipedia, on the basis of various Mythos stories (I'm suspecting Lin Carter influences here - he did a lot of stories just to tie together the Mythos pantheon into one great extra-dimensional family tree)
H.P.Lovecraft used a lot of throw-away references in his work, and in his letters. One of those is to these Twin Obsenities, dwelling almost forgotten in their temple beneath the sands of the Arabic Peninsula.
(I may use them again - the wonderful "To Clear the Earth" mentions Nug in the context of the Furnace of Nug - a device that emerges from the Antarctic ice-cap to reshape the planet.)
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Good to see a reference to these two obscure Lovecraftian deities, and even better to read about someone else who remembers the Furnace of Nug and the Torch of Yeb. How I loved those Chaosium collections!
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Nug, Yeb, Yig and Shub-Niggurath. These four were prayed to by the high-priest T'Yog to enable him to defeat Ghatanothoa, the sight of which turns the skin and flesh of a victim into stone, while leaving his brain and viscera alive -and suffering. The text of a scroll was revealed to him that if held by a person or touched to a victim of Ghatanothoa, would protect the former and restore the latter...
Alas....
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nods 
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Yeah, probably in the date and address part of the letters. Things like "Temple of St.Toad, hour of the scratching in the sealed tower" or "transdimensional vaporous temple of Zylkariob in the 3rd Continuum Cluster. Hour of the Torturing of the Worm Gho-Blgh-Yaddith" fun to read, but hell to date these letters to put them in chronological order!
I have all 5 volumes of HPL's letters as published by Arkham House. There's even proof that Frank Belknap Long's THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS is a "collaboration" bet him and Lovecraft.
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I think this is superb. Lovecraft's gods are truly alien -- and this is a visual that captures that concept quite well.
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I was hanging out there just last week- those two sure do know how to throw a swingin' party!
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Hmmm that seems rather obscure.
Were the stories known under the same title or each seperately (beacuse I know one entitled "To clear the Earth in the Shub-Niggurath Cycle)
I know theres another Will Murray story about these two called "Black Fire" (Which was in the Cthulhu Cycle)
So would it be them.
Sorry to keep pestering you about this. (in a touch of irony all googling it got was your live journal page)
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Quick question on the subject of To clear the Earth. What book was it published in? (I know the auther was Will Murray but the internet has been rather unhelpful with what book exactly)
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it was in one of the Chaosium collections - there were two stories, in different volumes - one about the Torch of Nug, and one about the Furnace of Yeb. I think the latter was in the Shub-Niggurath Cycle, and the other in a later volume
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Thats a brilliant picture of two relatively obscure Old Ones.
I love the way the twin entities look allmost bacteria like, it gives them a wondefuly alien look.
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damn yo.
they seem so... mechanical, despite their organic nature... and the modern bio-hazard sybol makes it eerily realistic. the stark contrast with so few middle-grays makes a lot of sense for this piece- figures that might otherwise be large, cute fuzzballs wuth tendrils become much more menacing and dangerous.
and thank you for the description... so few people put effort into making them interesting
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thanks again - playing wioth contrast effects was something i discovered with my first cthulhu experiments - and it works brilliantly in a lot of them - on the other hand, the Render of the Veils and Eidolon pictures look much better as is
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