The Gods of Pegana by Lord (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett) Dunsany
page 40 of 71 (56%)
page 40 of 71 (56%)
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These are the words of Yonath, the first among all prophets:
There be gods upon Pegana. Upon a night I slept. And in my sleep Pegana came very near. And Pegana was full of gods. I saw the gods beside me as one might see wonted things. Only I saw not MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI. And in that hour, in the hour of my sleep, I knew. And the end and the beginning of my knowing, and all of my knowing that there was, was this--that Man Knoweth Not. Seek thou to find at night the utter edge of the darkness, or seek to find the birthplace of the rainbow where he leapeth upward from the hills, only seek not concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods. The gods have set a brightness upon the farther side of the Things to Come that they may appear more felititous to men than the Things that Are. To the gods the Things to Come are but as the Things that Are, and nothing altereth in Pegana. The gods, although not merciful, are not ferocious gods. They are the destroyers of the Days that Were, but they set a glory about |
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