The Gods of Pegāna · Chapter
Of the Making of the Worlds explained
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.
What happens
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 watch silently, the Star of the Abiding to rest, and finally Earth to wonder.
Themes in this chapter
Cosmic Cycles and Creation
The gods create worlds, suns, and celestial bodies as a pastime while Māna-Yood-Sushāī rests, establishing a cosmic cycle of creation and repose.
The Absurdity of Divine Games
The gods make worlds and life merely to amuse themselves, highlighting the arbitrary and playful nature of divine creation.
Characters to notice
- Māna-Yood-Sushāī
The creator god who made the gods and now rests while they amuse themselves.
- Skarl
The drummer whose drumming is the only sound in Pegāna.
Key passages
“Let Us make worlds to amuse Ourselves while Māna rests.”
The gods decide to create worlds for their own entertainment during Māna's rest.
Reveals the gods' motivation for creation as amusement.
“Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods.”
They create a comet that will eternally search but never discover why the gods were made.
Introduces the theme of eternal, futile seeking.
“Lastly the gods said: 'We have made worlds and suns, and one to seek and another to regard, let Us now make one to wonder.' And They made Earth to wonder.”
Finally, the gods create Earth specifically to be a place of wonder.
Earth's purpose is defined as wonder, setting it apart from other creations.