When was the story by Lovecraft that the Xothic legend cycle is based on first published?
The Call of Cthulhu "The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine "Weird Tales", in February 1928.
Yig Yig (the Father of Serpents) is a deity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. He first appeared in the story "The Curse of Yig", which was created by Zealia Bishop and almost completely rewritten by Lovecraft. In this story he is described as "shapen like a man, except ye look at him clost." According to Lovecraft, one of Yig's main characteristics is his devotion to snakes - his "children" - he punishes those that harm them by turning them into spotted snakes.