Nyarlathotep research

Nyarlathotep

“And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences—of electricity and psychology—and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.” (“Nyarlathotep”)

“What his fate would be, he did not know; but he felt that he was held for the coming of that frightful soul and messenger of infinity’s Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.” (“The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”)

“There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers—the ‘Black Man’ of the witch cult, and the ‘Nyarlathotep’ of the Necronomicon.” (“The Dreams in the Witch House”)

“There are references to a Haunter of the Dark awaked by gazing into the Shining Trapezohedron, and insane conjectures about the black gulfs from which it was called. The being is spoken of as holding all knowledge, and demanding monstrous sacrifices.” (“The Haunter of the Dark”)

from my research nyarlathotep was one of the mos intreseting old gods, with dozens of different identities and physical forms from these sources: wikipedia and yog-sothoth. a few include:

• Appears as a gelatinous mass extruding golden tentacles. 

• Appears as a hooved, hairless, man with pitch black skin and caucasian features. Appears to be an avatar of the popular depiction of Satan in Christianity. 

• Appears as a haughty Egyptian pharaoh wearing a brightly coloured robe. 

• Manifests as a twelve-foot-tall living skeleton with enormous claws and the head of a human embryo.

All if not most of these depictions include black skin, african features and egyptian culture with this old god, which gave me a good base to go on.

With this I put together a list of key words to use in making my image

NYARLATHOTEP -

• tall
• swarthy man
• egyptian pharaoh
• wanderer
• narrator
• magical instruments
• showman
• lecturer
• scientific
• joyous
• messenger
• Nikola Tesla? Pharaoh? gypsy traveller?

Another thing ive found is that he's the only Old God to not be caged away or locked in some sort of mortal object, he's free to roam the earth amongst humans, and thus depicted in various times.

I started to find images of modern egyptian fashion,  primarily silk suits and linen clothes