The Gods of Pegana

The Gods of Pegana

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THE GODS OF PEGANA
LORD DUNSANY

CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Of Skarl the Drummer
Of the Making of the Worlds
Of the Game of the Gods
The Chaunt of the Gods
The Sayings of Kib
Concerning Sish
The Sayings of Slid
The Deeds of Mung
The Chaunt
The Sayings of Limpang-Tung
Of Yoharneth-Lahai
Of Roon, the God of Going, and the Thousand Home Gods
The Revolt of the Home Gods
Of Dorozhand
The Eye in the Waste
Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast
Yonath the Prophet
Yug the Prophet

Alhireth-Hotep The Prophet
Kabok The Prophet
Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Hara by the Sea, and of the Building
of the Tower of the Ending of Days
Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith
Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of all the Gods Save
One
Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak
Pegana
The Sayings of Imbaun
Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King
Of Ood
The River
The Bird of Doom and THE END

PREFACE
In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to
decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the
mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "Now make gods for Me,
for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine." Who it was that
won the cast, and whether it was Fate or whether Chance that went
through the mists before THE BEGINNING to
MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI--_none knoweth._

INTRODUCTION
Before there stood gods upon Olympus, or ever Allah was Allah, had
wrought and rested MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI.
There are in Pegana Mung and Sish and Kib, and the maker of all small
gods, who is MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI. Moreover, we have a faith in
Roon and Slid.
And it has been said of old that all things that have been were wrought
by the small gods, excepting only MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, who made
the gods and hath thereafter rested.
And none may pray to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI but only the gods
whom he hath made.
But at the Last will MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI forget to rest, and will

make again new gods and other worlds, and will destroy the gods
whom he hath made.
And the gods and the worlds shall depart, and there shall be only
MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI.

OF SKARL THE DRUMMER
When MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI had made the gods and Skarl, Skarl
made a drum, and began to beat upon it that he might drum for ever.
Then because he was weary after the making of the gods, and because
of the drumming of Skarl, did MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI grow drowsy
and fall asleep.
And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that MANA rested,
and there was silence on Pegana save for the drumming of Skarl. Skarl
sitteth upon the mist before the feet of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, above
the gods of Pegana, and there he beateth his drum. Some say that the
Worlds and the Suns are but the echoes of the drumming of Skarl, and
others say that they be dreams that arise in the mind of MANA because
of the drumming of Skarl, as one may dream whose rest is troubled by
sound of song, but none knoweth, for who hath heard the voice of
MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, or who hath seen his drummer?
Whether the season be winter or whether it be summer, whether