Tsathoggua/Zhothaqquah is described as an Old One, a god-like being. The first description of Tsathoggua occurs in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”, in which the protagonists encounter one of the entity’s idols: “He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity, and his whole body was covered with an imitation of short fur, giving somehow a vague sensation of both the bat and the sloth. His sleepy lids were half-lowered over his globular eyes; and the tip of a queer tongue issued from his fat mouth.” In Smith’s “The Seven Geases” (1933), Tsathoggua is described again: “In that secret cave in the bowels of Voormithadreth… abides from eldermost eons the god Tsathoggua. You shall know Tsathoggua by his great girth and his batlike furriness and the look of a sleepy black toad which he has eternally. He will rise not from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.”
Alias Tsathoggua, the Sleeper of N’kai, Zhothaqquah
Appearance List “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros” by Clark Ashton Smith in Weird Tales (Nov 1931, written in 1929), “The Whisperer in Darkness” by H. P. Lovecraft in Weird Tales (Aug 1931, written 1930), “The Seven Geases” by Clark Ashton Smith in Weird Tales (Oct 1934)
Description Tsathoggua/Zhothaqquah is described as an Old One, a god-like being. The first description of Tsathoggua occurs in Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros”, in which the protagonists encounter one of the entity’s idols: “He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity, and his whole body was covered with an imitation of short fur, giving somehow a vague sensation of both the bat and the sloth. His sleepy lids were half-lowered over his globular eyes; and the tip of a queer tongue issued from his fat mouth.” In Smith’s “The Seven Geases” (1933), Tsathoggua is described again: “In that secret cave in the bowels of Voormithadreth… abides from eldermost eons the god Tsathoggua. You shall know Tsathoggua by his great girth and his batlike furriness and the look of a sleepy black toad which he has eternally. He will rise not from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.”
, 