How do you say "Yog-Sothoth" in Latin?

[irondawn]

Also which deity is represented by the Egyptian god Thoth? Would it be Azathoth or Yog-Sothoth?

[Tremens]

I think it's more Nyrlathot[h]ep, if I recall.

Spoiler:

Thoth is regarded as an avatar of N. in Daniel Harms' Cthulhu Encyclopedia anyway.

Although in the end it's all up to you.

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I don't think Yog-Sothoth would be pronounced differently in any other language...

[Uuklay]

Lovecraft's nouns and themes were much more mercurial and random than what you're getting at, I believe. As a narrative tool, I think Yog-Sothoth and Azathoth both have "thoth" in their names because it evokes godly and alien images, not because they are some representation of the Egyptian god Thoth.

As far as latin goes, make something up. Yog-Sothoth and all those guys have thousands of different names depending on the culture that worships them.

[NeferSutekh]

og-SothothYay

[WinstonP]

Azathoth, in the core rules, is suggested to be a corruption of the Arabic izzu-tahuti "the Power behind Thoth" (Thoth, the Magician's god being Nyarlathotep... Nyarlathotep being Egyptian (Nar rut hotep or somesuch) for "there is no rest/peace at the gate"

If you want to transliterate or Latinate the name Yog-Sothoth, it would probably be something like Iog Sotot... but it really depends on where the hell Yog-Sothoth the word came from. We've got the Greek "Thoth" (their take on the Egyptian 'Dihauti', see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth), so presumably from the Greek we'd need something that sounds like 'yog'.

Checking a Greek dictionary for the word "yoga", picked because it was almost certainly a loan word in Greek, we get γιόγ, which isn't a word in Greek. At this point I defer to people who could speak Greek to make a suggestion.

[Taavi]

I like a Hebrew derivation: Yod-He-Seth-He; which lets you cross the name of god with the first gnostic sorcerer and third son of Adam and Eve.

[wombat1]

og-SothothYay

Ogyay-Othothsay, I think

Seriously, though, one has aspects one could use--Aforgomon sounds sufficiently classical. One could also translate "The Lurker at the Gate (or door or threshold), or one could translate "Prolonged of life"

[FriendOfMrGreen]

Also which deity is represented by the Egyptian god Thoth? Would it be Azathoth or Yog-Sothoth?

I call him "Tim."

[ElijahWhateley]

You can't. The true name of Yog-Sothoth isn't pronounceable with a finite number of tongues and a 3-dimensional diaphragm.

[FriendOfMrGreen]

You can't. The true name of Yog-Sothoth isn't pronounceable with a finite number of tongues and a 3-dimensional diaphragm.

What makes you think I don't?

[Nescio]

Medieval Latin texts of the sorts likely to be relevant in CoC - grimoires, demonological treatises etc - were full of distinctly un-Latin names of supernatural beings, often of Hebrew origin, often more-or-less badly mangled. "Yog-Sothoth" would fit right in except for the hyphen, which wouldn't be used in a medieval manuscript.

Medieval scribes also often substituted i for y, so if further difference is wanted, Iogsothoth presents itself as an obvious variant. A slight mishearing and we've got Ioxothoth, which I sort of like the look of.

[ElijahWhateley]

What makes you think I don't?

Oh, I assumed you did, I was replying to the person asking the question.
I've got to be more clear next time...