THE GODS OF PEGANA

LORD DUNSANY

CONTENTS

[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]
[TThe 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 God]
[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.