Yig

Yig, the Father of Serpents, is a Great Old One who was worshipped as a god in Central America and the southern states of the USA. He was fiercely protective of his serpentine offspring and would punish anyone who dared harm them. He is the father of Ayi'ig and the mate of the outer god Yidhra. Even though Yig is easy to anger, Yig is also easy to please as long as no harm comes to his children, the snakes.

The Curse of Yig

In the early 1920s an "Indian ethnologist" conducted extensive research into snake lore from Guatemala through to Oklahoma. He described Yig as the dark prototype for the more benevolent Quetzalcoatl and Kukulcan.

By the time of his investigation the enthnologist found that the population of Oklahoma were often to afraid to discuss the legend but this had not always been the case. Before the land-rush of 1889 the plains tribes were more open than the Pueblo or desert nomads about their worship of Yig. Unlike most of the Great Old Ones he was rarely malicious but would enter a feeding frenzy in Autumn leading the Pawnee, Wichita and Caddo of Oklahoma to drum constantly from August through to October to drive him away.(HPL: The Curse of Yig)