James Ambuehl deities

The James Ambuehl deities are supernatural entities created for the Cthulhu Mythos universe of shared fiction by American horror writer James Ambuehl.
B'gnu-Thun & Ruthra-Dyoll

The looming icy spiral of whiteness seems to be almost animate in form and it seems to exude and essence of sentience in its single-minded purpose in relentlessly stalking and eventually claiming its fleeing victim.
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

B'gnu-Thun (The Ice-God of Voroth) and Ruthra Dyoll (The Fire-God of Yondath) are twins, respectively ice and fire elementals and in eternal strife. They are regarded as Great Old Ones and mentioned in The Whispers of Altuas.
Only B'gnu-Thun is somehow described in "Correlated Contents" (1998), whereas it is mentioned along with its sibling in "The Star-Seed" (1996) and "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997).
Byagoona
See Nyarlathotep.
Cthogga
Cthogga (The Dream-Daemon) is an oneiric entity described in the short story "The Forgotten God".
Dygra

But can’t the men see that such actions will not serve them in the least, for the gem-pile is not what it seems, but rather the bulk is the body of living, jewel-facetted, semi-crystalline Stone-Thing known as Dygra... as evidenced by the geodic tentacles starting to curl about their legs, to drag them kicking and screaming into its glittering polychromatic maw!
—James Ambuehl, "Correlated Contents"

Dygra (The Stone-Thing) is an underground Great Old One made of living mineral, similar to a sentient geod endowed with tentacles and shining facets, but hungry of human flesh. Dygra is mentioned in the Whispers of Altuas, introduced in Ambuehl's stories "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and "Correlated Contents" (1998).
Dythalla

Several man-lengths tall
And saurian was he,
With serpentine tail and all
And powerful clawed toes, three.
And a betentacled mane
Fell to his mid-back;
Worshipped in Altuan fane,
Lightless, shunned and black.
—James Ambuehl "Dythalla"

Dythalla (The Lord of Lizards) is a gigantic reptilian horror with a mop of tentacles along the back. It is revered and awed in the lands of Altuas, sort of an Ambuehl's continuation of Lovecraftian Dreamlands or pre-human Earth of Atlantis' times. One may speculate as sort of a continental equivalent of Bokrug.
Dythalla is mentioned in several works of Ambuehl as "The Lord of Lizards" (1996), "The Bane of Byagoona" (1996), "The Star-Seed" (1996) and "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997), but the short poem Dythalla is the most complete reference describing the Great Old One's appearance. A likely oblique reference to Dythalla also features in Ambuehl's "Masters of Terror" (2001), where Howard Phillips Lovecraft meets the Silurians from Doctor Who TV series.
Ei'lor

The Black Crystal of Zu-Tha may allow one to walk the lush and leafy surface of jungled Kr'llyand, home of the plant-god known as Ei'lor. Kr'llyand was once a dead star, like its neighbor Mirkalu, but after Those from Glyu'uho banished the Plant-Thing Ei'lor there, His seed was sown and did spread, to cover and repopulate the dead star with steaming, fibrous green life.
—James Ambuehl "Star-Seed"

Ei'lor (The Plant-God) first appeared in James Ambuehl's story "Star-Seed" (1996) and is also mentioned in "Correlated Contents" (1998). James Gruetzmacher has dedicated a short poem to this entity, named "Ei'lor" (1998).
Ei'lor is an alien entity originated on a jungle world named Kr'llyand, a planet orbiting a green Sun and a dead star respectively named Yifne and Baalblo. Location of this world is mentioned in The Revelations of Glaaki, close to a planet named Tond, said to be once visited by the Great Old One Glaaki.
The Great Old One Ei'lor was banished by the Elder Gods of Glyu'ho on this steamy world but its seeds are able to spread in the Cosmos infesting every planet they reach. Indeed "Correlated Contents" (1997) describes a painting portraying a post-apocalyptic New York City infested by Ei'lor's seed.
The Black Crystal of Zu-Tha allows anyone to open a portal to Ei'lor's world and more details concerning the Plant-God itself are contained in the grimoire Ei'lor Fronds.
Gi-Hoveg

the rearing mountainscape which floats above its towering peaks a gigantic multi-eyed spiky ball hanging like some strange ufo or small moon... this I recognize as a scene depicting a visitation to our fledgling Earth by Gi-Hoveg, the cosmically-charged Aether-Anemone
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

Gi-Hoveg (The Aether-Anemone) is an Outer God inimical to the vampiric lord Uvhash. It manifests as a gigantic, fleshy sponge-like thing covered in a multitude of eyes and countless spines.
Gi-Hoveg is introduced in "The Advent of Uvhash" (1996) and mentioned in "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997), "Correlated Contents" (1998).
Haiogh-Yai

This scene portrays the wandering blackhole Vix’ni-Aldru, and its hideous vampiric dweller, Haiogh-Yai, also known The Outsider. The Outsider’s minions, the occupants of the tiny fleet of ships, are doubtless the lizard-like and worm-like shapechanging Voorlak, the inhabitants of the strange blocky city called T’halu.
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

Haiogh-Yai (The Outsider) is a vortex-like Outer God dwelling on the stone citadel of T'halu orbiting the black hole named Vix'ni-Aldru. In its dark realm Haiogh-Yai is served by the Voorlak, lizard to worm-like creepers which attend His urges.
Haiogh-Yai is introduced in Ambuehl's poem "The Outsider" (1990) and mentioned in "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and "Correlated Contents" (1998).
Istasha

Her beauty is not wholesome,
like that of Lythalia, her sister,
Here is a seductive beauty, a feline grace,
and few can resist her.
—James Ambuehl "Where Walks Istasha"

Istasha (Mistress of Darkness) is sort of a feline deity like Bastet, but quite evil. She is revered in Ulthar and mentioned in the K'qaat Manuscripts along with Lythalia, her sister. Both were also worshipped in the temples of Altuan cities of Amas-Nath, Xammad and Ibtand.
Istasha features in "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and the poem "Where Walks Istasha" (2004).
Lu-Kthu

Looking closer yet, the pustules seem to be slimy, semi-translucent amniotic birth-sacs and the tunnels are in actuality the veins carrying nutrients and plasma to the occupants of the birth-sacs. Concentrating on the birth-sacs, the viewer can’t help but to notice tentacle-tips and wing-edges and claw-ends and things less-nameable erupting forth from their wet, steaming bowels.
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

Lu-Kthu (Birthwomb of the Great Old Ones) is a planet-sized horror whose bulk is made of squirming entrails and pustules, each one bearing the larva of a Great Old One. For it has spawned the chief Outer Gods Haiogh-Yai and Gi-Hoveg, Lu-Kthu has to be regarded as an Outer God as well.
Lu-Kthu is described in detail in "Correlated Contents" (1998).
Lythalia

And, of course, let us not forget the seductive sisters, sylvan Lythalia the Forest-Goddess and the Mistress of Darkness, feline Istasha, of whom the disquieting K'qatt Manuscripts tells us was worshipped in the great Halls of Ulthar, as well as in the temples of the Altuan cities of Amas-Nath, Xammad and Ibtand. And as I’ve said, there are still more unholy additions to these blasphemous, daemonic ranks.
—James Ambuehl "The Stalker in the Snows"

Lythalia (The Forest-Goddess) is a sylvan deity humanoid deity covered in vines and vegetal parts, organized in sort of a charming, wicked beauty. She is the sister of the feline Istasha and once mate of the Elder God Nodens, whose she has bore the twin Elder Gods Vorvadoss and .
Lythalia features in "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and the poem "Where Walks Istasha" (2004).
Oztalun

Crawling through the fence once more, I bent to pick up a stick, and with it drew a circle in the dirt of the front yard, and in the center of this a seven-pointed star, the Seal of Shimmering and Golden Oztalun, within which I would stand. I knew from Skyler's book that the horror from beyond the gulfs of space most likely could not breach the Seal of the Golden Elder God.
—James Ambuehl "The Star-Seed"

Oztalun (Gold and Shimmering One) is an Elder God, symbolized by a seven-pointed star symbol, which is its own Seal. It is introduced in "The Advent of Uvhash" (1996), "The Bane of Byagoona" (1996) and "The Star-Seed" (1996).
Ragnalla

another mountainous scene showing a nest and the talons of some gigantic bird of prey hanging over the nest and dropping a tiny morsel of food to waiting colossal beaks stretched to the sky: the tiny morsel recognizable as the wildy-flailing figure of a human being! Feeding time, of course, for Ragnalla’s brood, the cycloptic and cyclopean Winged Ones!
—James Ambuehl, "Correlated Contents"

Ragnalla (The Devourer in the Earth) is a flying Great Old One very similar to Zvilpogghua. As in Ambuehl's poem "Ragnalla", the entity manifests as a vultuine horror with a mop of tentacles in place of the head and a huge, lidless eye within the writhing mass. It is said to have spawned the Winged Ones, which could either match with the Shantak-birds or be utterly another servitor race.
Ragnalla is mentioned in the poem Ragnalla (1985) and Ambuehl's stories "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and "Correlated Contents" (1998).
Shavalyoth

They were expelled by a much more powerful force of entities known as the Elder Gods — whose all-powerful hoary leader is known as Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss, and whose members also include golden and shimmering Oztalun, shadowy and shapeless Shavalyoth and incandescent Yaggdytha of Bel-Yarnak — but the Old Ones are ever striving to reclaim our Earth, indeed the very universe once more.
—James Ambuehl "The Advent of Uvhash"

Shavalyoth (The Shadowy and Shapeless One) is an Elder God, supposed to be dark and formless. It is introduced in "The Bane of Byagoona" (1996) and "The Star-Seed" (1996).
Shuy-Nilh

And there are countless other paintings as well. That hellish subterranean grotto acrawl with those amorphous blobs of darkness, which I recognize to be the humped, tentacled forms of the Spawn of Shuy-Nilh, the Devourer in the Earth
—James Ambuehl, "Correlated Contents"

Shuy-Nilh (The Devourer in the Earth) is an underground Great Old One similar to a formless, tentacled, dark blob spawning a brood of servitors similar to Him. It is mentioned in the Whispers of Altuas and introduced in Ambuehl's stories "Madness in Haiti" (1985), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and "Correlated Contents" (1998).
S'tya-Yg'Nalle

I read again Scranton's note and realized that he had the advantage this time. Although I had had occasion to spy in the ancient, forbidden texts the name of S'tya-Yg'Nalle, also known as The Whiteness and said to be an ally of Ithaqua the Wind-Walker, I knew practically nothing else about The Whiteness. But what I knew concerning Ithaqua, known variously by such epithets as the Death-Walker, the Snow-Thing, and even the Wendigo of popular legend and folklore, served to freeze my soul and chill me to the bone.
—James Ambuehl "Whiteout"

S'tya-Yg'Nalle (The Whiteness) is sort of a servitor of the Great Old Ones - especially Ithaqua - manifesting as an entity made of living chill.
S'tya-Yg'Nalle is mentioned in Ambuehl's "Whiteout" (2006).
Uvhash

I shuddered involuntarily as I recalled naught that was wholesome concerning that nauseous bible of the blood-mad god of the Void known as Uvhash. Countless blood-orgies of the decadent Roman Empire were attributed to the worship of this foul demon, and it was rumored that even the terrible mad emperor Caligula himself owned the vampiric feaster as one of his unspeakable sponsors!
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

Uvhash (The Blood-Mad God of the Void) is a vampiric Outer God dwelling on planet Rhylkos, which matches with Mars or a "parallel" Mars close to the dark realm of the Hounds of Tindalos. Uvhash has indeed a link with the hideous denizens of Tindalos and the Star Vampires too.
Uvhash is mentioned in the Blood Rituals of Rhylkos and is said to have been invoked by the mad emperor Caligula in his feasts and orgies.
Uvhash is introduced in "The Advent of Uvhash" (1996) and mentioned in "The Star-Seed" (1996) too.
Volgna-Gath

It stood near eight feet tall, bipedal, composed of reddish clay, with razor-sharp talons. It was partly reptilian and simian in appearance, with glistening fangs as large as the tusks of a boar, and fierce, red eyes...
—James Ambuehl "The Sculpture"

Volgna-Gath (Keeper of the Secrets) is sort of an alien golem described in detail in "The Sculpture" (2001), first mentioned in "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997).
Volgna-Gath is able to make a devilish pact with foolish worshippers, for the Great Old One has no true form. Those Volgna-Gath chooses create a haven-body of stone, mud, clay, wood or metal which takes life after a great deal of flesh and blood from His own chosen ones. Then the entity takes a form, usually the most hideous possible.
Xa'ligha

His voice is likewise obviously strained, for he vomits forth a spray of bloody red mist. The worst thing about the band, however, is the stark fact that they seem, despite their best ghastly efforts, unable to stop playing!
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

Xa'ligha (Demon of Dissonance or Master of the Twisted Sound) is sort of a living sound entity similar to Lovecraft's The Music of Eric Zahn, but quite destructive and malevolent, causing insanity and bleeding ears in the unaware victims listening to his sound.
Xa'ligha is mentioned in "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and "Correlated Contents" (1998) and is said having some affair with the fellow Great Old One Hastur, as in Ambuehl's "Whiteout" (2006).
Xirdneth

Then shall Xirdneth, Maker of Illusions run rampant, so that man will be made to doubt his own sanity
—James Ambuehl "The Star-Seed"

Xirdneth (Maker of Illusions) is an illusion-making Great Old One with no true form dwelling in Ambuehlian parallel (or pre-human) dimension of Altuas, inside a huge tower. Xirdneth is introduced in "The Maker of Illusions" (1983) and mentioned in "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and in Ambuehl's poem "Dythalla" (1985) too.
Yaggdytha

I found it in the LITANIAE AD DEUM FRACEUM, a powerful exorcism of sorts, designed to thwart even such as the Great Old Ones, and calling upon something called Yaggdytha of Bel-Yarnak, brother to Vorvadoss, the Troubler of the Sands (the LITANIAE had it that an older volume, something called THE BOOK OF IOD, said that Yaggdytha and his brother Vorvadoss were the only entities neither wholly Great Old One nor wholly Elder God -- being twin sons of the Lord of the Great Abyss, conceived upon a Great Old One called Lythalia, who waylaid Nodens by dark sorcery and had her way with him -- and whose loyalties lay wherever the twinswilled in a given situation).
—James Ambuehl "The Star-Seed"

Yaggdytha (Incandescent One) is an Elder God manifesting as a great amorphous, incandescent ball of cyan living energy, spread itself into a web of giant talons of light. It is twin brother of Vorvadoss and spawn of the Elder God Nodens and the Great Old One Lythalia.
Yaggdytha is introduced in "The Star-Seed" (1996) and mentioned in "The Bane of Byagoona" (1996) and "The Advent of Uvhash" (1996).
Y'lla & Vhuzompha

Of course this scene illustrates a group of the offspring of Y’lla, the titanic tentacled sea-worm imprisoned in its ancient citadel called K’hraa sunken beneath the sea. Taking after their sire in terrible appearance and in awesome attributes the progeny of Y’lla can of course swim with ease throughout the world’s oceans. Often mistaken for whales and giant squid, the monstrous sea-worms seldom stray far from the murky ocean deeps. But their awesome visitations upon the surface dwellers are near legendary in the form of documented reports of enormous hurricanes and tidal waves of particular severity throughout human history.
—James Ambuehl "Correlated Contents"

Y'lla (The Sea-Worm) and Vhuzompha (Father and Mother of Marine Life) are brothers and both are worm-like horrors, the former strictly marine and the latter more "continental".
Y'lla uses to assault the vessels and ships in the Atlantic Ocean and spends most of its life in the sunken citadel of K'hraa, served by its worm-like spawn. Vhuzompha is an hermaphroditic entity invoked in orgiastic ceremonies ending in tragic ways. This Great Old One is mentioned in the Y'lla Chants.
Vhuzompha is instead summoned in some orgiastic rituals which conclude in tragical ways and appears as a titanic worm with multifarious, obscene appendages mimicking human genitalia and other orifices.
Y'lla is introduced in "The Deep-Lord Awakens" and mentioned in "The Bane of Byagoona" (1996), "The Star-Seed" (1996), "The Stalker in the Snows" (1997) and "Correlated Contents" (1998).
Vhuzompha is instead introduced in "Correlated Contents" (1998) and widely features in Ambuehl's story "Beast of Love" (2004), written together Tracy Ambuehl.

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