Shub Niggurath

Shub-Niggurath is a demon in the series.
==History==
Shub-Niggurath, also known as "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young" or "The Black Ram of The Forest with a Thousand Ewes," is the outer god of fertility and perverse mother goddess in Lovecraft Lore. She appears as an enormous cloudy mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths and short, writhing goat legs. Small creatures are spat forth, which are either reconsumed into her form or escape to live their own lives elsewhere.
She is the most worshipped of all the Lovecraft deities, which include Druidic and Barbaric cults, Hyberboreans, and Muvians, along with non-humans like the Mi-Go and Nug-Soth. She can be summoned to any woodlands during a New Moon. She is believed to have mated with Hastur to produce the Ithaqua, Zhar and Liogor. She may also have mated with Hastur to produce her "Thousand Young" but could be produced via fission. She is also believed to have mated with Yog Sothoth.
Shub-Niggurath mostly takes form in the middle of dark and decadent forests, a trait which earned her the epithet of Black Goat of the Woods. Another reason she is called the Black Goat is because many of the forms she assumes all involve her having the physical characteristics of a goat, which according to some, is supposedly the bastardization of the demon Baphomet who was also known for his highly perverse rituals. Out of all of the Old Ones, she is one of the most extensively worshiped by the most depraved heathens. They believe that should they appease her, she will provide them with her "nutrients" that will purportedly give them immortality; unaware that the sustenance she offers will in fact turn them into hideous monstrosities.
The being first appeared in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928); however, in Lovecraft's fiction, she is never actually described, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations.
==Appearances==
*Persona 2: Eternal Punishment: Tower Arcana
==Profile==
===Persona 2: Eternal Punishment===
Shub Niggurath appears before Tatsuya in the first part of Tatsuya's Scenario as a mysterious demon. She states her name "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" before the two fight. Shub Niggurath can normally be found in Bomb Shelter 8, Monad Mandala, and the EX Dungeon.
==Stats==
===Persona 2: Eternal Punishment===
==Gallery==
File:Shub Niggurath Persona 2 EPP Tatsuya's Scenario.png|Shub-Niggurath as she appears in Persona 2: Eternal Punishment Tatsuya's Scenario
Category:Lovecraftian Mythology