Sulla natura lunare di Shub-Niggurath: dalla mythopoeia di Howard Phillips Lovecraft a The Moon-Lens di Ramsey Campbell
On the Lunar Nature of Shub-Niggurath: From Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s mythopoeia to Ramsey Campbell’s The Moon-Lens

Summary/Abstract: The present essay proposes to trace aprofile of Shub-Niggurath – one of the terrifying deities conceived by H. P. Lovecraft. The first partillustrates that the double sexuality of Shub-Niggurath – who, though being a Mother Goddess of Fertility, has a more frequent masculine hypostasis, the Goat with a Thousand Young – is informed by the great myth structured upon the distinction between the whole and the part. The second part analyses a Lovecraftian tale by the British writer Ramsey Campbell, The Moon-Lens (1964), which entirely concerns this deity. Beyond the double sexuality ofLovecraftian origin, the Shub-Niggurath of Campbell exhibits several repugnant and hybrid traits which are referable to the lunar law of becoming.

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