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Shub Niggurath's power

Shub-Niggurath is either a primal force (less than but in the same order of magnitude as Azathoth) or imprisoned outside of space and time (so powerful enough that the descriptions of his/her/it's interactions are as trivial an amount of it's/her/his power as the sound of an inmate's voice over the prison wall is a trivial indication of the inmate's abilities and power).

Lovecraft himself only described a cloud-like being. However, he also used the name "Black Goat", which some consider to indicate her/it's/his body has hooves and horns; but others hold this to be a metaphor for procreation—a metaphysical horniness rather than a physical one.
 
https://www.tor.com/2013/09/24/equoid/

Also:

"She is a perverse fertility deity, said to appear as an enormous cloudy mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths, and short, writhing goat legs. Small creatures are continually spat forth by the monstrosity, which are either consumed into the miasmatic form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere."

-The Last Test

She is called the 'all-mother' since she has mated with many other Gods, meaning almost every one of them can trace their existence to her. This means she has an INFINITE amount of children.

Actually now that I think about it, Shub-Niggurath is the grandmother of Cthulhu, and it is said that she mated with Hastur, a Great Old One like Cthulhu—the brother of Cthulhu, in fact.
 
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