Dweller in the Gulf
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The Dweller in the Gulf is a fictional deity in a short story of the same name by Clark Ashton Smith.
It lives deep beneath the surface of the planet Mars, but may have originated elsewhere. It is worshipped exclusively by a blind, troglodyte sect of Aihai and is ritually summoned by the stroking of its idol. Its appearence is that of a massive, eyeless soft-shelled tortoise-like creature with a triangular head and two whiplike tails. At the ends of these are two sucking, bell-shaped appendages, used for the ceremonial--usually forced--removal of its discoverers' eyes, turning them into its blind, mute servitors.
