the hills by starlight looking on Averon."

And Shaun set out and travelled many days and many people followed him.
And every night he saw more clearly the shapes of the three new gods
who sat silent when the gods of Old were striding among men. On the
higher slopes of the mountain Shaun stopped with all his people, and
there they built a city and worshipped the gods, whom only Shaun could
see, seated above them on the mountain. And Shaun taught how the gods
were like grey streaks of light seen before dawn, and how the god on
the right pointed upward toward the sky, and how the god on the left
pointed downward toward the ground, but the god in the middle slept.

And in the city Shaun's followers built three temples. The one on the
right was a temple for the young, and the one on the left a temple for
the old, and the third was a temple for the old, and the third was a
temple with doors closed and barred--therein none ever entered. One
night as Shaun watched before the three gods sitting like pale light
against the mountain, he saw on the mountain's summit two gods that
spake together and pointed, mocking the gods of the hill, only he heard
no sound. The next day Shaun set out and a few followed him to climb to
the mountain's summit in the cold, to find the gods who were so great
that they mocked at the silent three. And near the two gods they halted
and built for themselves huts. Also they built a temple wherein the Two
were carved by the hand of Shaun with their heads turned towards each
other, with mockery on Their faces and Their fingers pointing, and
beneath Them were carved the three gods of the hill as actors making
sport. None remembered now Asgool, Trodath, Skun, and Rhoog, the gods
of Old.

For many years Shaun and his few followers lived in their huts upon the