Yig

Yig, the Father of Serpents, is a fictional deity introduced in the H. P. Lovecraft revision story "The Curse of Yig". He is introduced as "the snake-god of the central plains tribes," and "a shunned and feared object in central Oklahoma." 
The story describes him asan odd, half-anthropomorphic devil of highly arbitrary and capricious nature. He was not wholly evil, and was usually quite well-disposed toward those who gave proper respect to him and his children, the serpents; but in the autumn he became abnormally ravenous, and had to be driven away by means of suitable rites. The snake-god's chief quality was "a relentless devotion to his children," making it taboo to kill snakes. Those "who flouted him or wreaked harm upon his wriggling progeny" would suffer the "curse of Yig," in which the deity would "turn his victim, after suitable tortures, to a spotted snake." 
Walter C. DeBill Jr.'s "A Movement in the Grass" describes Yig as the father of Ayi'ig and the mate of the outer god Yidhra. 
==Origin and beliefs==
The serpentine Yig was one of the many gods worshiped in the ancient continent of Mu. (: "Out of the Aeons", : "The Invaders")
T’yog believed that Yig was one of the "gods friendly to man", along with Shub-Niggurath, Nug and Yeb, and that these deities would be willing to side with humanity against the tyranny of Ghatanothoa. (: "Out of the Aeons")
In the early 1920s, an "American Indian ethnologist" conducted extensive research into snake lore from Guatemala to Oklahoma. He described Yig as the dark prototype for the more benevolent Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan. 
By the time of his investigation, the ethnologist found that the people of Oklahoma were often too afraid to discuss the legend, though this had not always been the case. Before the Land Rush of 1889, the plains tribes were more open than the Pueblo or desert nomads about their worship of Yig. The influx of white immigrants, however, led to a series of unnatural tragedies. Belief was more common in the west than it was in the transplanted south eastern tribes.
Unlike most of the Great Old Ones, Yig was rarely malicious, although he would enter a feeding frenzy in Autumn, leading the Pawnee, Wichita, and Caddo of Oklahoma to drum constantly from August through to October to drive him away. In addition to this, the Wichita would make offerings of corn to appease him (: "The Curse of Yig").
While researching other legends, the same ethnologist also came across the manuscript of Zamacona y Nuñez, and found about the subterranean world of blue-litten K'n-yan, where Yig is one of the two main gods worshiped by the K'n-yanians, alongside Tulu. (: The Mound)
In 1928, a Mi-Go masquerading as Henry Wentworth Akeley spoke to Albert Wilmarth about the legend of Yig, among other things. (: The Whisperer in Darkness)
Yig is also referred to as Father Yig (: "The Shambler from the Stars"), similar to other deities such as Father Dagon, Father Ubb, etc.
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