colossal, against a mountain, whose form is the form of a man with the
right hand uplifted, but vaster than the hills. And in the Book of
Secret Things which the prophets keep in the Temple that stands in
Yarnith is writ the story of the gathering of the world as Iraun heard
it when the gods spake together, up in the stillness above Azrakhan.

And all that read this may learn how Yarni Zai drew the mountains about
him like a cloak, and piled the world below him. It is not set in
writing for how many years Yarni Zai sat clothed with rocks at the end
of the Valley of Yodeth, while there was nought in all the world save
rocks and Yarni Zai.

But one day there came another god running over the rocks across the
world, and he ran as the clouds run upon days of storm, and as he sped
towards Yodeth, Yarni Zai, sitting against his mountain with right hand
uplifted, cried out:

"What dost thou, running across my world, and whither art thou going?"

And the new god answered never a word, but sped onwards, and as he went
to left of him and to right of him there sprang up green things all
over the rocks of the world of Yarni Zai.

So the new god ran round the world and made it green, saying in the
valley where Yarni Zai sat monstrous against his mountain and certain
lands wherein Cradoa, the drought, browsed horribly at night.

Further, the writing in the book tells of how there came yet another
god running speedily out of the east, as swiftly as the first, with his
face set westward, and nought to stay his running; and how he stretched