The Gods of Pegāna by Lord Dunsany

Author:Lord Dunsany
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fantasy fiction, English
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2015-11-02T00:10:27+00:00

Yonath the Prophet

Yonath was the first among proph­ets who uttered unto men.

These are the words of Yonath, the first among all proph­ets:

There be gods upon Pegāna.

Upon a night I slept. And in my sleep Pegāna came very near. And Pegāna was full of gods.

I saw the gods be­side me as one might see wonted things.

Only I saw not Māna-Yood-Sushāī.

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 Pegāna.

The gods, al­though not mer­ci­ful, are not fe­ro­cious gods. They are the des­troy­ers of the Days that Were, but they set a glory about the Days to Be.

Man must en­dure the Days that Are, but the gods have left him his ig­nor­ance as a solace.

Seek not to know. Thy seek­ing will weary thee, and thou wilt re­turn much worn, to rest at last about the place from whence thou set­test out upon thy seek­ing.

Seek not to know. Even I, Yonath, the old­est prophet, burdened with the wis­dom of great years, and worn with seek­ing, know only that man knoweth not.

Once I set out seek­ing to know all things. Now I know one thing only, and soon the Years will carry me away.

The path of my seek­ing, that leadeth to seek­ing again, must be trod­den by very many more, when Yonath is no longer even Yonath.

Set not thy foot upon that path.

Seek not to know.

These be the Words of Yonath.

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