Azathoth

Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle

stories of writer H.P Lovecraft and other authors. He is the ruler of the
Outer Gods.
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 and Azazel- Mentioned by
Lovecraft in “The Dunwich Horror” price also pont 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 “The
Thing on the Doorstep”/
Another note Lovecraft made to himself later in 1919 refers to
an idea for a story “A terrible pilgrimage to seek the knighted throne
of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth”. In a letter to Frank Belknap
Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a novel by William
Beckford about a supernatural caliph. Lovecraft attempts to work this
ide into a novel flounded (a 500-word fragment survives, first
published under the title “Azathoth” in the journal Leaves in 1938).
Although Lovecraftian school will Murray suggest that Lovecraft
recycled the idea into his Dream Cycle novella The Dream-Quest of
Unknown Kadath, Written in 1926.