the opening of a flower towards dawn, and others say they concern
earthquakes among hills, and others that they tell of the death of
fishes, and others that the words be these: Power, Knowledge,
Forgetting, and another word that not the gods themselves may ever
guess. These words the Yozis read, and sped away in dread lest the gods
should wake, and going aboard their galleons, bade the rowers haste.
Thus the Yozis became gods, having the power of gods, and they sailed
away to the earth, and came to a mountainous island in the sea. There
they sat upon the rocks, sitting as the gods sit, with their right
hands uplifted, and having the power of gods, only none came to
worship. Thither came no ships nigh them, nor ever at evening came the
prayers of men, nor smell of incense, nor screams from the sacrifice.
Then said the Yozis:

"Of what avails it that we be gods if no one worship us nor give us
sacrifice?"

And Ya, Ha, and Snyrg set sail in their silver galleons, and went
looming down the sea to come to the shores of men. And first they came
to an island where were fisher folk; and the folk of the island,
running down to the shore cried out to them:

"Who be ye?"

And the Yozis answered:

"We be three gods, and we would have your worship."

But the fisher folk answered: