Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, the fifth planet from the Sun. H. P. Lovecraft, an accomplished amateur astronomer, referred to it repeatedly in his fiction.
==In Lovecraft's Fiction==
The mental patient Joe Slater describes his dream travels through time and space in "Beyond the Wall of Sleep",: "You and I have drifted to the worlds that reel about the red Arcturus, and dwelt in the bodies of the insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon of Jupiter." By convention, the fourth moon of Jupiter is Callisto, the outermost of the planet's four major satellites. It is Jupiter's second-largest moon and the third-largest in the solar system, being nearly the size of the planet Mercury.Wikipedia, "Callisto (moon)".
In "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Swami Chandraputra, a disguised Randolph Carter, describes Carter's return from the stars, saying he "learned an untellable secret from the close-glimpsed mists of Jupiter and saw the horror on one of the satellites".
One of the mind-swap victims of the Yithians in "The Shadow Out of Time" is "from an outer moon of Jupiter six million years in the past."
==Other Mythos Appearances==
In Joseph L. Pulver's short story "Nightmare's Disciple", Jupiter's Great Eye--the Great Red Spot, a colossal storm system--is the prison of two of Cthulhu's "daughters", Nctosa and Nctolhu.
In Hyperborea, the planet Jupiter was known as Ylidiomph. (: "The Utmost Abomination")
==References==
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