The Temple of Nug and Yeb

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 Obscenities, 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.)

- Drhoz!