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The Gods of Pegāna

The Gods of Pegāna,Lord Dunsany’sfirst published book, is a strange and wondrous creation. In it he creates the pantheon of gods who rule over the titular world. The prose alternates between being biblical, high-minded, and childish, with the gods frustrating their human subjects through their single-minded and often completely inscrutable actions. When they’re not busy being mysterious, they’re busy taking revenge on each other. It’s possible these short tales were written...

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CHAPTERS

33

Dedication

Dedicated to Lady Dunsany....

Preface

There be islands in the Central Sea, whose waters are bounded by no shore and where no ships come⁠—this is the faith of their people. In the mists before the beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots to de...

Introduction

Before there stood gods upon Olympus, or ever Allah was Allah, had wrought and rested Māna-Yood-Sushāī. There are in Pegāna Mung and Sish and Kib, and the maker of all small gods, who is Māna-Yood-Sus...

Of Skarl The Drummer

When Māna-Yood-Sushāī had made the gods and Skarl, Skarl made a drum, and began to beat upon it that he might drum forever. Then because he was weary after the making of the gods, and because of the d...

Of The Making Of The Worlds

When Māna-Yood-Sushāī had made the gods there were only the gods, and They sat in the middle of Time, for there was as much Time before them as behind them, which having no end had neither a beginning...

Of The Game Of The Gods

A million years passed over the first game of the gods. And Māna-Yood-Sushāī still rested, still in the middle of Time, and the gods still played with Worlds. The Moon regarded, and the Bright One sou...

The Chaunt Of The Gods

There came the voice of the gods singing the chaunt of the gods, singing: “We are the gods; We are the little games of Māna-Yood-Sushāī that he hath played and hath forgotten. “Māna-Yood-Sushāī hath m...

The Sayings of Kib - (Sender of Life in All the Worlds)

Kib said: “I am Kib. I am none other than Kib.” Kib is Kib. Kib is he and no other. Believe! Kib said: “When Time was early, when Time was very early indeed⁠—there was only Māna-Yood-Sushāī. Māna-Yood...

Concerning Sish - (The Destroyer of Hours)

Time is the hound of Sish. At Sish’s bidding do the hours run before him as he goeth upon his way. Never hath Sish stepped backward nor ever hath he tarried; never hath he relented to the things that ...

The Sayings of Slid - (Whose Soul Is by the Sea)

Slid said: “Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth? “Nor let any sacrifice to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for wha...

The Deeds of Mung - (Lord of All Deaths Between Pegāna and the Rim)

Once, as Mung went his way athwart the Earth and up and down its cities and across its plains, Mung came upon a man who was afraid when Mung said: “I am Mung!” And Mung said: “Were the forty million y...

The Chaunt Of The Priests

This is the chaunt of the Priests. The chaunt of the priests of Mung. This is the chaunt of the Priests. All day long to Mung cry out the Priests of Mung, and, yet Mung harkeneth not. What, then, shal...

The Sayings of Limpang-Tung - (The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels)

And Limpang-Tung said: “The ways of the gods are strange. The flower groweth up and the flower fadeth away. This may be very clever of the gods. Man groweth from his infancy, and in a while he dieth. ...

Of Yoharneth-Lahai - (The God of Little Dreams and Fancies)

Yaoharneth-Lahai is the god of little dreams and fancies. All night he sendeth little dreams out of Pegāna to please the people of Earth. He sendeth little dreams to the poor man and to The King. He i...

Of Roon, the God of Going - And the Thousand Home Gods

Roon said: “There be gods of moving and gods of standing still, but I am the god of Going.” It is because of Roon that the worlds are never still, for the moons and the worlds and the comet are stirre...

The Revolt Of The Home Gods

There be three broad rivers of the plain, born before memory or fable, whose mothers are three grey peaks and whose father was the storm. There names be Eimēs, Zānēs, and Segástrion. And Eimēs is the ...

Of Dorozhand - (Whose Eyes Regard the End)

Sitting above the lives of the people, and looking, doth Dorozhand see that which is to be. The god of Destiny is Dorozhand. Upon whom have looked the eyes of Dorozhand he goeth forward to an end that...

The Eye In The Waste

There lie seven deserts beyond Bodraháhn, which is the city of the caravans’ end. None goeth beyond. In the first desert lie the tracks of mighty travellers outward from Bodraháhn, and some returning....

Of The Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast

Seeing that wisdom is not in cities nor happiness in wisdom, and because Yadin the prophet was doomed by the gods ere he was born to go in search of wisdom, he followed the caravans to Bodraháhn. Ther...

Yonath The Prophet

Yonath was the first among prophets who uttered unto men. These are the words of Yonath, the first among all prophets: There be gods upon Pegāna. Upon a night I slept. And in my sleep Pegāna came very...

Yug The Prophet

When the Years had carries away Yonath, and Yonath was dead, there was no longer a prophet among men. And still men sought to know. Therefore they said unto Yug: “Be thou our prophet, and know all thi...

Alhireth Hotep The Prophet

When Yug was Yug no more men said unto Alhireth-Hotep: “Be thou our prophet, and be as wise as Yug.” And Alhireth-Hotep said: “I am as wise as Yug.” And men were very glad. And Alhireth-Hotep said of ...

Kabok The Prophet

When Alhireth-Hotep was among the Things that Were, and still men sought to know, they said unto Kabok: “Be thou as wise as was Alhireth-Hotep.” And Kabok grew wise in his own sight and in the sight o...

Of The Calamity That Befell Yun Ilara

When Kabok and his fears had rest the people sought a prophet who should have no fear of Mung, whose hand was against the prophets. And at last they found Yūn-Ilāra, who tended sheep and had no fear o...

Of How The Gods Whelmed Sidith

There was dole in the valley of Sidith. For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war. Throughout all Sidith men died night and...

Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet

Imbaun was to be made High Prophet in Aradec, of All the Gods save One. From Ardra, Rhoodra, and the lands beyond came all High Prophets of the Earth to the Temple in Aradec of All the gods save One. ...

Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak

The prophet of the gods lay resting by the river to watch the stream run by. And as he lay he pondered on the Scheme of Things and the works of all the gods. And it seemed to the prophet of the gods a...

Pegana

The prophet of the gods cried out to the gods: “O! All the gods save One” for none may pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, “where shall the life of a man abide when Mung hath made against his body the sign of M...

The Sayings Of Imbaun

The Prophet of the gods said: “Yonder beside the road there sitteth a false prophet; and to all who seek to know the hidden days he saith: ‘Upon the morrow the King shall speak to thee as his chariot ...

Of How Imbaun Spake Of Death To The King

There trod such pestilence in Aradec that the King as he looked abroad out of his palace saw men die. And when the King saw Death he feared that one day even the King should die. Therefore he commande...

Of Ood

Men say that if thou comest to Sundāri, beyond all the plains, and shalt climb to his summit before thou art seized by the avalanche which sitteth always on his slopes, that then there lie before thee...

The River

There arises a river in Pegāna that is neither a river of water nor yet a river of fire, and it flows through the skies and the Worlds to the Rim of the Worlds, a river of silence. Through all the Wor...

The Bird Of Doom And The End

For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean wi...