# The Gods of Pegāna — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Gods of Pegāna by Lord Dunsany.

- [The Gods of Pegāna](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-gods-of-peg-na.md): This chapter introduces the pantheon of the gods of Pegāna, describing their domains, attributes, and roles in the cosmic order. It establishes the divine hierarchy and the peculiar, often whimsical nature of these deiti
- [Of Skarl the Drummer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-skarl-the-drummer.md): Skarl, created by Māna-Yood-Sushāī, makes a drum and beats it eternally, causing Māna to fall asleep. The drumming sustains the worlds and gods; if Skarl stops, Māna will awaken and all will end. When the final cessation
- [Of the Making of the Worlds](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-the-making-of-the-worlds.md): After Māna-Yood-Sushāī creates the gods, they sit in the silent middle of Time and decide to make worlds and celestial bodies to amuse themselves while Māna rests. They create suns, a comet to seek endlessly, the Moon to
- [Of the Game of the Gods](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-the-game-of-the-gods.md): A million years pass as the gods play with worlds. Kib creates beasts and then men, breaking the silence of Pegāna by speaking with his mouth. The other gods fear for their secret and set a veil between man and ignorance
- [The Chaunt of the Gods](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-chaunt-of-the-gods.md): The gods sing a chaunt acknowledging themselves as mere games of Māna-Yood-Sushāī, who made them and allowed them to create worlds and suns. They play with creation and destruction, but know that when Māna arises and lau
- [The Sayings of Kib](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-sayings-of-kib.md): Kib, the Sender of Life, declares his unique identity and recounts the primordial existence of Māna-Yood-Sushāī before the gods, and prophesies the eventual end of all worlds, leaving only Māna-Yood-Sushāī in loneliness.
- [Concerning Sish](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/concerning-sish.md): This chapter introduces Sish, the Destroyer of Hours, who ceaselessly moves forward, with Time as his hound. It describes how Sish once rested in the garden of Wornath-Mavai, a place spared from decay, but now he sends h
- [The Sayings of Slid](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-sayings-of-slid.md): Slid, the small god of waters, declares that mortals should not pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, the god of Having Done, but to the small gods who made Death and Pain. He proclaims himself lord of all waters, with his soul in t
- [The Deeds of Mung](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-deeds-of-mung.md): Mung, the Lord of All Deaths between Pegāna and the Rim, travels the Earth and encounters mortals who fear him. He explains the inevitability of death, the fixed nature of the cosmic scheme, and the fleeting nature of so
- [The Chaunt of the Priests](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-chaunt-of-the-priests.md): The priests of Mung chant endlessly to their god, who does not listen. They instruct the people to bring gifts to the priests so that they may cry louder to Mung, hoping that Mung will eventually hear and lift the shadow
- [The Sayings of Limpang-Tung](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-sayings-of-limpang-tung.md): Limpang-Tung, the god of mirth and melodious minstrels, reflects on the strange ways of the gods, the inevitability of death and sorrow, and his own role in bringing joy and art to the world. He paints the sky with ever-
- [Of Yoharneth-Lahai](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-yoharneth-lahai.md): Yoharneth-Lahai is the god of little dreams and fancies, who sends dreams from Pegāna to comfort the people of Earth each night. He is so busy that he often confuses the poor man with the king. Those who do not receive h
- [Of Roon, the God of Going](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-roon-the-god-of-going.md): This chapter introduces Roon, the god of Going, who compels all things—worlds, moons, comets, streams, winds, and people—to be in constant motion. It contrasts Roon with the thousand home gods, such as Pitsu, Hobith, Hab
- [The Revolt of the Home Gods](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-revolt-of-the-home-gods.md): The three river gods Eimēs, Zānēs, and Segástrion rebel against the gods of Pegāna by flooding the plain and killing men for pleasure. The gods send Mung to summon Umbool, the drought, who grins at the river gods until t
- [Of Dorozhand](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-dorozhand.md): Dorozhand, the god of Destiny, sees all ends and drives both men and gods toward an unknown purpose. Life itself is his instrument, and when his goal is achieved, Māna-Yood-Sushāī will awaken and unmake the gods, possibl
- [The Eye in the Waste](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-eye-in-the-waste.md): Beyond the seven deserts of Bodraháhn stands the image of the god Hoodrazai, carved by the gods from the living hill Rānorāda. Hoodrazai, once the god of mirth, became silent and sorrowful after learning the secret of Mā
- [Of the Thing That Is Neither God nor Beast](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-the-thing-that-is-neither-god-nor-beast.md): The prophet Yadin, doomed by the gods to seek wisdom, journeys into the desert and prays to Hoodrazai. He is carried by three flamingoes beyond the worlds to the Rim, where he encounters Trogool, the Thing that is neithe
- [Yonath the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/yonath-the-prophet.md): Yonath, the first among prophets, recounts a vision in which Pegāna drew near, revealing the gods but not Māna-Yood-Sushāī. He imparts the central wisdom that man cannot know the purposes of the gods, and that seeking su
- [Yug the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/yug-the-prophet.md): After the death of Yonath, men seek a new prophet and choose Yug, who claims to know all things. He speaks of the Beginning and End as centered on himself, but when he witnesses Mung making a divine sign, his identity is
- [Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/alhireth-hotep-the-prophet.md): After Yug's disappearance, the people appoint Alhireth-Hotep as their prophet, claiming he is as wise as Yug. He declares authority over Life and Death, accepts gifts, and writes that he knows all things because he has s
- [Kabok the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/kabok-the-prophet.md): Kabok, a prophet who claims to know all things and advises men on Mung's signs, grows arrogant and fat on gifts. When Mung treads in his garden at night, Kabok's fear reveals his ignorance. After three nights, Mung makes
- [Of the Calamity That Befell Yūn-Ilāra by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-the-calamity-that-befell-y-n-il-ra-by-the-sea-and-of-the-building-of-the-tower-of-the-ending-of-days.md): Yūn-Ilāra, a shepherd who fears not Mung, is made prophet and builds the Tower of the Ending of Days, from which he curses Mung daily. Over time, Sish ages him and ivy overtakes the tower. Eventually, weary of life, Yūn-
- [Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-how-the-gods-whelmed-sidith.md): The people of Sidith, suffering from pestilence, famine, and war, demand their High Prophet Arb-Rin-Hadith confront the gods directly. After the gods refuse to help, the people send him to appeal to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, who
- [Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-how-imbaun-became-high-prophet-in-aradec-of-all-the-gods-save-one.md): Imbaun is initiated as High Prophet in Aradec, learning that the Secret of Things is faintly writ in an unknown tongue in the Hall of Night, a truth all prophets share. Later, the god Dorozhand appears to him and leads h
- [Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-how-imbaun-met-zodrak.md): The prophet Imbaun, resting by a river and pondering the sorrow in the Worlds despite the goodness of the gods, encounters an old man who reveals himself as Zodrak, a former shepherd who was brought before the gods in a 
- [Pegāna](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/peg-na.md): The prophet Imbaun seeks from the gods the secret of what happens to a man after death, but the gods refuse to reveal it. Yoharneth-Lahai visits Imbaun and speaks of the nature of life and eternity, suggesting that death
- [The Sayings of Imbaun](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-sayings-of-imbaun.md): Imbaun, the Prophet of the gods, contrasts his own painful wisdom with the comforting lies of a false prophet, who tells people what they wish to hear. Imbaun reflects on the limits of human knowledge, the inevitability 
- [Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-how-imbaun-spake-of-death-to-the-king.md): In Aradec, a pestilence causes the King to fear his own mortality. He summons the High Prophet of All the gods save One, who confirms that the King will die. The King responds by asserting his power over the lives of his
- [Of Ood](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-ood.md): This chapter describes the perilous journey to the land of forgotten hills and the Great Temple of One God Only, where the prophet Ood and his drowsy priesthood rest in perpetual stillness, forbidden to work or pray, les
- [The River](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-river.md): This chapter describes the River Imrāna, a river of silence that flows from Pegāna through the skies to the Sea of Silence. It tells of the god Yoharneth-Lahai, who sails a dream-built ship upon this river, weaving the h
- [The Bird of Doom and the End](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-bird-of-doom-and-the-end.md): The chapter describes the prophesied end of all things, where the bird of doom Mosahn heralds the final destruction. The gods sail away in golden galleons down the River of Silence, never to return, while Māna-Yood-Sushā

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