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Mana- Yood-Sushai $200 Before there stood gods upon Olympus, or ever Allah was Allah, had wrought and rested Mana-Yood-Sushai. 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. 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. |
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Skarl (the drummer) $200 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. Some say that the Worlds and the Suns are but the echoes of the drumming of Skarl. But, when at last the drumming of Skarl shall cease to beat his drum, silence shall startle Pegana like thunder in a cave, and Mana-Yood-Sushai shall cease to rest. |
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Kib (the God of Life) $200 Kib grew weary of the game of the first game of the gods, and raised his hand in Pegana, making the sign of Kib, and earth became covered in beasts for Kib to play with. And Kib played with the beasts. And Kib said “This is Life.” And Kib grew weary of the second game, and raised his hand in the Middle of All, making the sign of Kib, and made Men: out of beasts he made them, and Earth was covered with Men. It was Kib who first broke the Silence of Pegana, by speaking with his mouth like a man. |
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Mung (the God of Death) $200 And Mung was jealous of the work of Kib, and sent down Death among the beasts, but could not stamp them out. At the end of the flight of the arrow there is Mung, and in the houses and the cities of Men. Mung walketh in all places at all times. But mostly he loves to walk in the dark and still, along the river mists when the wind hath sank, a little before night meeteth with the morning upon the highway between Pegana and the Worlds. |
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Umbool (the beast of Mung) $200 Then Mung said: “Friend of Mung! Go, thou and grin before the faces of Eimes, Zanes, and Segastrion till they see whether it be wise to rebel against the gods of Pegana.” And Umbool came and crouched upon a hill upon the other side of the waters and grinned across them at the rebellious home gods. But when Umbool had grinned for thirty days the waters fell back into the river beds and the lords of the rivers sunk away back to their homes: still Umbool sat and grinned. |
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Limpang- Tung (the God of Mirth and Melodious Minstrels) $200 And Limpang-Tung said: “I will send jests into the world and a little mirth. And while Death seems to thee far away as the purple rim of the hills; or sorrow as far off as the rain in the blue days of summer, then pray to Limpang-Tung. But when thou growest old, or ere thou diest, pray not to Limpang-Tung, for thou becomest part of a scheme that he doth not understand.” |
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Yoharneth-Lahai (the God of Little Dreams and Fancies) $200 All night he sendeth little dreams out of Pegana to please the people of Earth. He sendeth little dreams to the poor man and to The King. He is so busy to send his dreams to all before the night be ended that he oft forgetteth which be the poor man and which be The King. To whom Yoharneth- Lahai cometh not with little dreams and sleep he must endure all night the laughter of the gods, with highest mockery, in Pegana. |
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Hish (the Lord of Silence in the Night) $200 And when it is dark, Hish creepeth from the forest, the Lord of Silence, whose children are the bats, and have broken the command of their father, but in a voice that is ever so low. Hish husheth the mouse and all the whispers of the night: he maketh all noises still. Only the cricket rebelleth. Hish hath set against him such a spell that after he hath cried a thousand times his voice may be heard no more but becometh part of the silence. |
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Wohoon (the Lord of Noises in the Night) $200 But away in the forest whence Hish hath come Wohoon, the Lord of Noises in the Night, awaketh in his lair and creepth round the forest to see whether it be true Hish hath gone. Then in some glade Wohoon lifts up his voice and cries aloud, that all the night may hear, that it is he, Wohoon, who is abroad in the forest. And the wolf, and the fox, and the owl, and the great beasts and the small, lift their voices to acclaim Wohoon. |
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Sish (The Destroyer of Hours) $200 Never hath Sish stepped backward nor ever hath he tarried; never hath he relented to the things that once he knew nor turned to them again. Before Sish is Kib, and behind him goeth Mung. Very pleasant are all things before the face of Sish, but behind him they are withered and old. And Sish goeth ceaselessly upon his way. |
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Time (the hound of Sish) $200 At Sish’s bidding do the hours run before him as he goeth upon his way. And Time, the hound of Sish, devoured all things. For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age. And then shall the hound, springing, tear out the throat of Mung, who, making for the last time the sign of Mung, shall bring down Death crashing through the shoulders of the hound, and in the blood of Time that Sword shall rust away. |
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Roon (the God of Going) $200 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 stirred by the spirit of Roon, which saith: “Go! Go! Go!” Roon maketh the sign of Roon before the waters, and lo! they have left the hills; and Roon hath spoken in the ear of the North Wind that he may be still no more. Offer to Roon thy toiling and thy speed, whose incense is the smoke of the camp fire to the South, whose song is the sound of going, whose temples stand beyond the farthest hills in his lands behind the East. |
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Dorozhand (the God of Destiny) $200 Sitting above the lives of the people, and looking, doth Dorozhand see that which is to be. It hath been written and said that not only the destinies of men are the care of Dorozhand but that even the gods of Pegana be not unconcerned by his will. All the gods of Pegana have felt a fear, for they have seen a look in the eyes of Dorozhand that regardeth beyond the gods. The reason and purpose of the World is that there should be Life upon the Worlds, and Life is the instrument of Dorozhand wherewith he would achieve his end. |
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Kilooloogung (one of the Thousand Home Gods) $200 There is also Kilooloogung, the lord of arising smoke, who taketh the smoke from the hearth and sendeth it to the sky, who is pleased if it reach Pegana, so that the gods of Pegana, speaking to the gods, say: “There is Kilooloogung doing the work of Kilooloogung.” And Kilooloogung, who is pleased that men should pray, stretches himself up all grey and lean, with his arms above his head, and sendeth his servant the smoke to seek Pegana, that the gods of Pegana may know that the people prey. |
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Slid (Lord of the Gliding Waters) $200 And Slid said: “I am the Lord of gliding waters and of foaming waters and of still. I am the Lord of all the waters in the world and all that the long streams garner in the hills; but the soul of Slid is in the Sea. Thither goes all that glides upon the Earth, and the end of all rivers is the Sea.” For there may Slid repose beneath the sun and smile at the gods above him with all the smiles of Slid, and be a happier god than Those who sway the Worlds, whose work is Life and Death. |
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Jabim (one of the Thousand Home Gods) $200 And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be end, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river’s edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it. A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost. |
