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The Gods of Pegana

by Lord Dunsany


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