Bokrug

Bokrug, The Great Water Lizard, is a fictional deity created by H. P. Lovecraft for his 1920 short story "The Doom That Came to Sarnath", which is considered part of his Dream Cycle.
In the expanded Mythos, Bokrug is sometimes portrayed as a Great Old One (: Call of Cthulhu), or as a Lesser Old One subservient to the Great Old One Mnomquah (: "Something in the Moonlight", "Behind the Mask").
==Description==
Bokrug is the lake-dwelling god of the semi-amphibian Thuum'ha ("Voiceless Ones") of Ib in the land of Mnar. The deity sleeps beneath the calm waters of a lake that bordered Ib and the city of Sarnath. When the humans of Sarnath cruelly slaughtered the populace of Ib and stole the god's idol, the great deity stirred. Each year thereafter, strange ripples reportedly disturbed the otherwise placid lake. On the one-thousandth anniversary of Ib's destruction, Bokrug rose up and utterly destroyed the city of Sarnath, so completely that not even ruins remained. Afterwards, the Thuum'ha race recolonised Ib and thenceforth lived undisturbed.
==In the Expanded Mythos==
In Brian Lumley's "The Sister City" and Beneath the Moors, Bokrug is reinterpreted as a species, rather than a single deity. According to these tales, the Bokrug came to colonise Earth in ancient times, bringing along the voiceless Thuun'ha who worshiped them. The Bokrug life cycle is similar to that of the Ghouls, as they send their children to the surface world to be raised by humans. Like Deep One hybrids, the Bokrug look mostly human until they reach a point in their lives in which they start mutating and develop an urge to abandon the human world and rejoin their own species.
==In Popular Culture== 
*In the TV series Ultraman Gaia, a monster appears called Bokurag, which is a reference to Bokrug.
== Gallery==
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Category:Great Old Ones
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works