What star system is Azathoth close to ?

Answer 1

Azathoth is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos stories of H.P. Lovecraft and other authors. Its epithets include The Blind Idiot God, Nuclear Chaos and the Daemon Sultan.

The first recorded mention of Azathoth was in a note Lovecraft wrote to himself in 1919 that read simply, "AZATHOTH--hideous name". Mythos editor Robert M. Price argues that Lovecraft could have combined the biblical names Anathoth (Jeremiah's home town) and Azazel (a desert demon to which the scapegoat was sacrificed--mentioned by Lovecraft in "The Dunwich Horror"[1]). Price also points to the alchemical term "Azoth", which was used in the title of a book by Arthur Edward Waite, the model for the wizard Ephraim Waite in Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep".[2]

Another note Lovecraft made to himself later in 1919 refers to an idea for a story: "A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth."[3] In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a novel by William Beckford about a supernatural caliph.[4] Lovecraft's attempts to work this idea into a novel foundered (a 500-word fragment survives, first published under the title "Azathoth" in the journal Leaves in 1938[5]), although Lovecraftian scholar Will Murray suggests that Lovecraft recycled the idea into his Dream Cycle novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in 1926.[6]

Price sees another inspiration for Azathoth in Lord Dunsany's Mana-Yood-Sushai , from The Gods of Pegana, a creator deity "who made the gods and thereafter rested." In Dunsany's conception, MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI sleeps eternally, lulled by the music of a lesser deity who must drum forever, "for if he cease for an instant then MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI will start awake, and there will be worlds nor gods no more." This oblivious creator god accompanied by supernatural musicians is a clear prototype for Azathoth, Price argues.

Answer 2

Azathoth is not a real star system. It is a fictional character in HP Lovecrafts' Cthulhu myhtos. It is supposed to be at the center of the entire universe.

Answer 3

...............erm

Isn't Azathoth a fictional creation by H.P. Lovecraft in his Cthulhu Mythos cycle ?

As he's supposed to rule time and space from a throne at the centre of Chaos, I'd suggest that possibly he hangs out in the White House

Answer 4

I think it is in the Bugs-Bunny Nebula...to get there, just check the information booth just on the other side of a black hole's event horizon.

Answer 5

I studied this back in grad school. It is the Gwynonen (I know, sounds kind of funny ;P) galaxy.

Answer 6

Its up for discussion and there are in fact multiple possible answers to this question..

Answer 7

It's the same star system that the Battlestar Galactica is in...could you PLEASE email the coordinates so they know how to find Earth?

Answer 8

Good question, hope you find the right answers