Māna-Yood-Sushāī

Māna-Yood-Sushāī is a creator deity who slumbers after creating the gods; if his drummer, Skarl, ceases drumming for an instant, he would awaken and destroy the world.
When Chaosium integrated Māna-Yood-Sushāī into the Cthulhu Mythos, they established it as an avatar of Azathoth (: Malleus Monstrorum).
Before that, Māna-Yood-Sushāī was mentioned in Gary Myers' Mythos story "The Gods of Earth".
==Behind the Mythos==
Māna-Yood-Sushāī and his ceaseless drummer, Skarl, is the creation of Lord Dunsany in his anthology The Gods of Pegana, which was an inspiration for Lovecraft. Dunsany's Pegana stories are regarded by some as the first example of an author inventing a mythos.
According to Mythos scholar Robert M. Price, Mana-Yood-Sushai was likely the inspiration for the Outer God Azathoth.
Category:Other Supernatural Beings
Category:Avatars of Azathoth
Category:Characters Originating From Mythos-Adjacent Works