He was simply a priest of the Great Old Ones who got knocked out by a steamboat. He makes a good mascot, but in the context of the original stories he was never a particularly important or powerful character. First among them is probably the prominence of Cthulhu himself.Common Knowledge: There are many misconceptions about the Cthulhu Mythos, usually perpetuated by later writers such as Dereleth.Broken Base: Almost all of the works in the Cthulhu Mythos that weren't originally written by H.One interpretation is that, seeing how the whole Mythos exist within Azathoth's dreams, perhaps Azathoth is the reader themselves with the Mythos existing in our imagination? Perhaps he lost his sanity in an untold cosmic war, perhaps he's subordinate to an even more powerful god we can't begin to imagine. Lovecraft was rather vague about Azathoth in his writings, with much information about him coming from later writers for the Mythos.Another interpretation that's been used in stories like The Ballad of Black Tom and Lovecraft Country is that racial minorities are more willing to deal with the Eldritch Abomination not because they are "primitive," but because they are desperate. Virtually all modern stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos assume the protagonists of Lovecraft's original stories were Unreliable Narrators due to their racist views.
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