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‎Dunsany's Cosmology

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 * '''The East''' is a continent that is largely uninhabited, except for '''[[Ooth-Nargai]]'''.  The city of '''[[Celephaïs]]''' is the capital of Ooth-Nargai and was created from whole cloth by its monarch '''[[Kuranes|King Kuranes]]''', the greatest of all recorded dreamers.  Beyond Ooth-Nargai are '''The Forbidden Lands''', dangerous realms into which travel is interdicted.
-* '''The North''' is a cold, mountainous continent notorious for its '''[[Plateau of Leng]]''', a violent region shared by [[Spiders of Leng|man-eating spiders]] and [[satyr]]-like beings known as the "[[Men of Leng]]".  The North also has a number of friendlier places, such as the city of '''[[Inganok]]''', famous for its [[onyx]] quarries. The deepest reaches of the North are said to hold '''[[Unknown Kadath]]''', the home of the Great Ones.
+* '''The North''' is a cold, mountainous continent notorious for its '''[[Plateau of Leng]]''', a violent region shared by [[Spiders of Leng|man-eating spiders]] and [[satyr]]-like beings known as the "[[Man of Leng]]".  The North also has a number of friendlier places, such as the city of '''[[Inganok]]''', famous for its [[onyx]] quarries. The deepest reaches of the North are said to hold '''[[Unknown Kadath]]''', the home of the Great Ones.
 In addition to these regions, the Dreamlands has a few other locales that defy conventional description.

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 In addition to these regions, the Dreamlands has a few other locales that defy conventional description.
-* '''The [[Underworld (Dreamlands)|Underworld]]''' is a subterranean region that runs beneath the whole of the Dreamlands.  Its principle inhabitants are '''[[ghoul]]s''', who can physically enter the waking world through crypts.  The Underworld is also home to the '''[[Gugs]]''', monstrous giants banished from the surface for untold blasphemies.  The Underworld's deepest realm is the '''[[Vale of Pnath]]''', a dangerous  lightless chasm inhabited by enormous unseen beasts called '''[[bholes]]'''.  Bholes are likely the ancestors of the '''[[Dhole|dholes]]''' of '''[[Yaddith]]'''.
+* '''The [[Underworld (Dreamlands)|Underworld]]''' is a subterranean region that runs beneath the whole of the Dreamlands.  Its principle inhabitants are '''[[ghoul]]s''', who can physically enter the waking world through crypts.  The Underworld is also home to the '''[[Gugs]]''', monstrous giants banished from the surface for untold blasphemies.  The Underworld's deepest realm is the '''[[Underworld#Vale_of_Pnath|Vale of Pnath]]''', a dangerous  lightless chasm inhabited by enormous unseen beasts called '''[[bholes]]'''.  Bholes are likely the ancestors of the '''[[Dhole|dholes]]''' of '''[[Yaddith]]'''.
 * '''The Moon''' has a parallel in the Dreamlands and is inhabited by the dreaded '''[[moon-beasts]]''', amorphous frog-like creatures allied with [[Nyarlathotep]]. Interestingly, it is possible for a ship to sail off the edge of the Dreamlands and travel through space to the moon.

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 ==Dunsany's Cosmology==
-Dunsany's Dreamlands are described in ''Beyond the Fields We Know'', which collects the three short Dreamlands stories,  "[[Idle Days on the Yann (fiction)]]", "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]", and "[[The Avenger of Perdondaris (fiction)]]", together with a short framing device.  Though "Pegana" might be a different dream, Dunsany's Dreamlands setting might be expanded to include also the two collections of prose poems describing the Gods of Pegana, ''[[The_Gods_of_Pegana_(fiction)|The Gods of Pegana]]'' and ''[[Time_and_the_Gods_(fiction)|Time and the Gods]]''.
+Dunsany's Dreamlands are sometimes referred to in his stories as The Fields of Dream, The Fields We Know Not, and [[Category:Pegana|Pegana]].
-Dunsany's Dreamer protagonist typically enters the Dreamlands through a green door in the back of a tiny shop on the obscure "Go-By Street" in London.  The green door in the back of the shop on Go-By Street opens upon an enchanted field in which stand's a cottage inhabited by a witch and her talking [[Cat]], with the field in turn bordering on the [[River Yann]], from which Dunsany's dreamer can hire a boat and explore many cities of Dream and other places of wonder accessible from the banks and tributaries of the River Yann.  There are almost certainly other "portals" or thin-spots between the two realms, though, and it seems likely that each dreamer will find his own path into a different dream.
+Dunsany's Dreamer protagonist typically enters the Dreamlands through a green door in the back of a tiny shop on the obscure "Go-By Street" in London.  In Dunsany's cosmology, the Dreamlands and the Fields We Know (the "[[Daylands]]" or waking world) are effectively two sides of the same coin, each as much a dream as the other, with Dreamlands poets dreaming of London, even as the poets of London dream of the Fields We Know Not - the Dreamlands:  it seems that Dreamlanders are able to travel to the waking world as easily as London's dreamers can travel to the Dreamlands.
-In Dunsany's cosmology,  the "Fields We Know Not" (the Dreamlands) and the "[[Daylands|Fields We Know]]" (or waking world) are effectively two sides of the same coin, or perhaps a continuum of the same, greater Dream, each as much dream or reality as the other, with Dreamlands poets dreaming of London, even as the poets of London dream of the Dreamlands:  it seems that Dreamlanders are able to travel to the waking world as easily as London's dreamers can travel to the Dreamlands.
+The green door in the back of the shop on Go-By Street opens upon an enchanted field in which stand's a cottage inhabited by a witch and her talking [[Cat]], with the field in turn bordering on the [[River Yann]], from which Dunsany's dreamer can hire a boat and explore many cities of Dream and other places of wonder accessible from the banks and tributaries of the River Yann.
-The Pegana prose-poems suggest that all of the worlds, including "reality", were built from the stuff of the dreams of a slumbering god, "Mana-Yood-Sushai", by the smaller gods he'd created after he rested and fell asleep.  These smaller gods and their creations have busied themselves ever since with keeping Mana-Yood-Sushai asleep, out of fear of what might happen when he awakens and, seeing what the small gods have done, perhaps un-makes the gods and their worlds, and starts anew with a fresh creation.
+For more details on the geography of Dunsany's Dreamlands, see the main article:  [[River Yann]]
-=== Geography of Dunsany's Dreamlands ===
+===Gods of Dunsany's Dreamlands===
 ==Lovecraft's Cosmology==
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 Also known as the Waking World, The Fields We Know (Dunsany), the "real"/"material"/"natural" world, the [[Seven_Planes#Terrestrial_Plane_.28Second_Plane.29|Terrestrial Plane]] (as opposed to the [[Seven_Planes#Astral_Plane_.28Third_Plane.29|Astral Plane]]), "Life", etc.
-The "waking" or "real world" counterpart to the Dreamlands, the real world can be thought of as being as unreal, dreamlike, and changeable by powerful dreamers (e.g. [[Cthulhu]] or [[Randolph Carter]]) as the Dreamlands are.  It might be in this way that it is possible for such strange and eldritch and seemingly "imaginary" locations as the towns and cities of [[Lovecraft Country]] to coincide with what seems otherwise to be the "real world", while still being subject to the "magical" laws of Dream, even as it allows "reality" to be contiguous in various ways with with other Dreamlands.
+The "waking" or "real world" counterpart to the Dreamlands, the real world can be thought of as being as unreal, dreamlike, and changeable by powerful dreamers (e.g. [[Cthulhu]] or [[Randolph Carter]]) as the Dreamlands are.  It might be in this way that it is possible for such strange and eldritch and seemingly "imaginary" locations as the towns and cities of [[Lovecraft Country]] to coincide with what seems otherwise to be the "real world".
 See [[Daylands]] for more detail.
 ==References==
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 Also known as the Waking World, The Fields We Know (Dunsany), the "real"/"material"/"natural" world, the [[Seven_Planes#Terrestrial_Plane_.28Second_Plane.29|Terrestrial Plane]] (as opposed to the [[Seven_Planes#Astral_Plane_.28Third_Plane.29|Astral Plane]]), "Life", etc.
-The "waking" or "real world" counterpart to the Dreamlands, the real world can be thought of as being as unreal, dreamlike, and changeable by powerful dreamers (e.g. [[Cthulhu]] or [[Randolph Carter]]) as the Dreamlands are.  It might be in this way that it is possible for such strange and eldritch and seemingly "imaginary" locations as the towns and cities of [[Lovecraft Country]] to coincide with what seems otherwise to be the "real world".
+The "waking" or "real world" counterpart to the Dreamlands, the real world can be thought of as being as unreal, dreamlike, and changeable by powerful dreamers (e.g. [[Cthulhu]] or [[Randolph Carter]]) as the Dreamlands are.  It might be in this way that it is possible for such strange and eldritch and seemingly "imaginary" locations as the towns and cities of [[Lovecraft Country]] to coincide with what seems otherwise to be the "real world", while still being subject to the "magical" laws of Dream, even as it allows "reality" to be contiguous in various ways with with other Dreamlands.
 See [[Daylands]] for more detail.
 ==References==

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 The Pegana prose-poems suggest that all of the worlds, including "reality", were built from the stuff of the dreams of a slumbering god, "Mana-Yood-Sushai", by the smaller gods he'd created after he rested and fell asleep.  These smaller gods and their creations have busied themselves ever since with keeping Mana-Yood-Sushai asleep, out of fear of what might happen when he awakens and, seeing what the small gods have done, perhaps un-makes the gods and their worlds, and starts anew with a fresh creation.
-For more details on the geography of Dunsany's Dreamlands, see the main article:  [[River Yann]].  See [[Gods of Pegana]] for a detailed description of a few of the countless small gods of Dunsany's Dreamlands (especially Pegana, but also a few from his other Dreamlands stories.)
+=== Geography of Dunsany's Dreamlands ===
 ==Lovecraft's Cosmology==

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 Dunsany's Dreamlands are described in ''Beyond the Fields We Know'', which collects the three short Dreamlands stories,  "[[Idle Days on the Yann (fiction)]]", "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]", and "[[The Avenger of Perdondaris (fiction)]]", together with a short framing device.  The setting might be expanded to include also the two collections of prose poems describing the Gods of Pegana, ''[[The_Gods_of_Pegana_(fiction)|The Gods of Pegana]]'' and ''[[Time_and_the_Gods_(fiction)|Time and the Gods]]''.
-Dunsany's Dreamer protagonist typically enters the Dreamlands through a green door in the back of a tiny shop on the obscure "Go-By Street" in London.  In Dunsany's cosmology, the Dreamlands and the Fields We Know (the "[[Daylands]]" or waking world) are effectively two sides of the same coin, each as much a dream as the other, with Dreamlands poets dreaming of London, even as the poets of London dream of the Fields We Know Not - the Dreamlands:  it seems that Dreamlanders are able to travel to the waking world as easily as London's dreamers can travel to the Dreamlands.
+Dunsany's Dreamer protagonist typically enters the Dreamlands through a green door in the back of a tiny shop on the obscure "Go-By Street" in London.  In Dunsany's cosmology, the Dreamlands and the "[[Daylands|Fields We Know]]" (or waking world) are effectively two sides of the same coin, each as much a dream as the other, with Dreamlands poets dreaming of London, even as the poets of London dream of the Fields We Know Not - the Dreamlands:  it seems that Dreamlanders are able to travel to the waking world as easily as London's dreamers can travel to the Dreamlands.
 The green door in the back of the shop on Go-By Street opens upon an enchanted field in which stand's a cottage inhabited by a witch and her talking [[Cat]], with the field in turn bordering on the [[River Yann]], from which Dunsany's dreamer can hire a boat and explore many cities of Dream and other places of wonder accessible from the banks and tributaries of the River Yann.