Talk:Shoggoth/@comment-12776-20150729180208/@comment-25035274-20150729213600

Specifically, the bottom half of the mamono looks the way it does because that's what Shoggoth look like in Lovecraftian works. They're amorphous blobs, covered in eyes and mouths.

EDIT: Note that this mamono does not come from folklore or legendry. The original creature was purely a creation of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, an American horror and sci-fi short story author from the 1920's and 30's.