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11-KNOWLEDGE-URANUS

Nyarlathotep: "It wails as it forms and reabsorbs random appendages. Nyarlathotep in this form (one of thousands) has no face, but can take any shape it pleases for short time periods. "

The Masks of Nyarlathotep are innumerable. Here are some of them specified for ritual encounter purposes:
Humanoid:
Aku-Shin Kage, Black Pharoah (also Set, Tezcatlipoca, Thoth), Bloated Woman, Green Man (also Jack O'Lantern), Horned One (Also Dark One, Devil, Pazuzu), Queen in Red (also Nefertiti), Shugoran, Skinless One, Tick Tock Man.

Monstrous:
Ahtu, The Beast (also Faceless God), Black Bull (also Black Lion), Black Wind, Bloody Tongue, Crawling Mist, Dark Demon (also Pazuzu), Dweller in Darkness, Father of Maggots, Haunter of the Dark (also Fly-the-Light, Sand Bat, Leogg), Kruschtya Equation, Messenger of the Old Ones, Small Crawler, Wailing Writer

"Nyarlathotep was no conscious invention of HPL at all, since it came to him in a dream and was probably a creative unconscious fusion of two names from Lord Dunsany, the prophet Alhireth-Hotep and the deity Mynarthitep." - Robert M. Price, "The Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousdand Forms," published by Chaosium.

"For Nyarlathotep to be the 'soul' of the Other Gods would mean that 'he' is their common essence, that root divinity of which the Other Gods are themselves half-real personifications on a lower level of (human) perception which Sankara called 'lower knowledge' or *avidya,*' ignorance -- that is, a knowledge that correctly apprehends a penultimate level of reality. ... Nyarlathotep, as the 'soul' of the Other Gods, is the undifferntiated Godhead, *Brahman (a neutral, because impersonal or superpersonal, term).

"...In this Hindu-Buddhist understanding of the Mythos, Azathoth (the blind idiot creator god familiar from Gnosticism) would represent a lower personification of the Suchness, the Chaos, as a demiurge creator. For him to 'mould the world in play' is, as Hindu cosmogony has it, for the *Brahman* to play a game of illusions with itself, the canonical metaphor for explaining how the delusory world of appearance (*maya*) can have come about in the beginning if really there is but the One. As *laya* ('play') it is not real diversity, only pretend. Azathoth then, represents creation from the standpont of lower knowledge." -- Ibid.

Exits:
     Gargophias; Q13 in
     Gimel; 13; out

VOID - Depart into the space between the worlds.