and said to him:

"This is Yush and this is the End of wisdom."

And the traveller answered:

"Yush is very peaceful and this indeed the End."

"O King, wouldst thou hear more?"

And the King said:

"I would hear all."

And the master prophet answered:

"There was also another prophet and his name was Shaun, who had such
reverence for the gods of Old that he became able to discern their
forms by starlight as they strode, unseen by others, among men. Each
night did Shaun discern the forms of the gods and every day he taught
concerning them, till men in Averon knew how the gods appeared all grey
against the mountains, and how Rhoog was higher than Mount Scagadon,
and how Skun was smaller, and how Asgool leaned forward as he strode,
and how Trodath peered about him with small eyes. But one night as
Shaun watched the gods of Old by starlight, he faintly discerned some
other gods that sat far up the slopes of the mountains in the stillness
behind the gods of Old. And the next day he hurled his robe away that
he wore as Averon's prophet and said to his people:

"There be gods greater than the gods of Old, three gods seen faintly on