Price notes that 'Lovecraft's Tsathoggua and Smith's differ at practically every point'. He will rise not from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice. You shall know Tsathoggua by his great girth and his batlike furriness and the look of a sleepy black toad which he has eternally. abides from eldermost eons the god Tsathoggua. In that secret cave in the bowels of Voormithadreth. Later, in Smith's 'The Seven Geases' (1933), Tsathoggua is described again: His sleepy lids were half-lowered over his globular eyes and the tip of a queer tongue issued from his fat mouth. He was very squat and pot-bellied, his head was more like a monstrous toad than a deity, and his whole body was covered with an imitation of short fur, giving somehow a vague sensation of both the bat and the sloth. The first description of Tsathoggua occurs in 'The Tale of Satampra Zeiros', in which the protagonists encounter one of the entity's idols: Lovecraft's story ' The Whisperer in Darkness', written in 1930 and published in the August 1931 issue of Weird Tales.

His first appearance in print, however, was in H. He was introduced in Smith's short story ' The Tale of Satampra Zeiros', written in 1929 and published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales. Tsathoggua/Zhothaqquah is described as an Old One, a god-like being from the pantheon. He is the creation of American writer Clark Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle. Tsathoggua (the Sleeper of N'kai, also known as Zhothaqquah) is a supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe.

Khannea Suntzu's impression of Tsathoggua

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