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                        by Lord Dunsany
 
                       Table of Contents
 
 
 
           Preface
           Prologue
           
           The Gods of Pegana
           Of Skarl the Drummer
           Of the Making of the Worlds
           Of the Game of the Gods
           The Chaunt of the Gods
           The Sayings of Kib
           Concerning Sish
           The Sayings of Slid
           The Deeds of Mung
           The Chaunt of the Priests
           The Sayings of Limpang-Tung
           Of Yoharneth-Lahai
           Of Roon, the God of Going
           The Revolt of the Home Gods
           Of Dorozhand
           The Eye in the Waste
           Of the Thing that is Neither God nor Beast
           Yonath the Prophet
           Yug the Prophet
           Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet
           Kabok the Prophet
           Of the Calamity that Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea,
                and of the Building of the Tower of the
                Ending of Days
           Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith
           Of How Imbaun became High Prophet in Aradec of All
                the Gods Save One
           Of How Imbaun met Zodrak
           Pegana
           The Sayings of Imbaun
           Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King
           Of Ood
           The River
           The Bird of Doom and the End












                           Preface


   There be islands in the Central Sea, whose waters are
bounded by no shore and where no ships come -- this is the
faith of their people.












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In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots
to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode
through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "Now make
gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be
Mine."  Who it was that won the cast, and whether it was
Fate or whether Chance that went through the mists before
the Beginning to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI -- none knoweth.
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