"Let the King command."




THE MEN OF YARNITH


The men of Yarnith hold that nothing began until Yarni Zai uplifted his
hand. Yarni Zai, they say, has the form of a man but is greater and is
a thing of rock. When he uplifted his hand all the rocks that wandered
beneath the Dome, by which name they call the sky, gathered together
around Yarni Zai.

Of the other worlds they say nought, but hold that the stars are the
eyes of all the other gods that look on Yarni Zai and laugh, for they
are all greater than he, though they have gathered no worlds around
them.

Yet though they be greater than Yarni Zai, and though they laugh at him
when they speak together beneath the Dome, they all speak of Yarni Zai.

Unheard is the speaking of the gods to all except the gods, but the men
of Yarnith tell of how their prophet Iraun lying in the sand desert,
Azrakhan, heard once their speaking and knew thereby how Yarni Zai
departed from all the other gods to clothe himself with rocks and make
a world.

Certain it is that every legend tells that at the end of the valley of
Yodeth, where it becomes lost among black cliffs, there sits a figure