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The Gods of Pegāna

First published: 1905
Pages: 67

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01 - Preface TO Concerning Sish
13:34
02 - The Sayings of Slid TO The Sayings of Limpang-Tung
12:17
03 - Of Yoharneth-Lahai TO The Revolt of the Home Gods
12:40
04 - Of Dorozhand TO Of the Thing that is neither God nor Beast.
13:00
05 - Yonath the Prophet TO Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith.
15:56
06 - Of How Imbaun became High Prophet in Aradec of all the Gods save One TO Pegana.
15:49
07 - The Sayings of Imbaun TO The Bird of Doom and The End
13:26

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About this book

Dunsany's first book conjured an entire pantheon out of nothing, and much of modern fantasy grew from the seed. In a series of linked prose fragments he describes the gods of Pegāna, chief among them Māna-Yood-Sushaī, the sleeping creator who must never be woken, kept in slumber by the endless drumming of Skarl. Around this central figure gather the smaller gods who rule life, death, time, and the sea, along with the prophets and doubters who try to read their will. There is no plot in the ordinary sense. The pleasure lies in the cadence of the language and the melancholy grandeur of a mythology built purely for its own sake, unlike anything in English before it. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.

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Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany developed imagined mythologies, remote kingdoms and compact wonder tales across fiction and drama. Born Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, he published The Gods of Pegāna in 1905 as his first book, introducing a created pantheon in a deliberately archaic style.