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	=== Umbrool, Beast of Mung ===		=== Umbrool, Beast of Mung ===
−	The drought, who sits in the desert Afrik, upon iron rocks, clawing with miserly grasp at the bones of men and breathing hot, whose grinning was like death in a hot and hideous land.	+	The drought, who sits in the [[#REDIRECT [[River_Yann#Bodrahan.2C_Afrik.2C_Ranorada\|desert Afrik]], upon iron rocks, clawing with miserly grasp at the bones of men and breathing hot, whose grinning was like death in a hot and hideous land.

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 === Trogool ===
 [[File:Sime trogool.png|200px|thumb|right|[[Sydney Sime]], "Trogool, The Thing that is Neither God Nor Beast"]]
-'''Trogool''', The Thing that is Neither God Nor Beast.  Far to the South, beyond the edge of Earth, and beyond the Moon, and beyond all the worlds, upon the heap of rocks that were discarded unused by the gods when they had finised making the worlds, sits Trogool.  Trogool is the Thing that is neither god nor beast, who neither howls nor breathes, only It turns over the leaves of [[The Book of All that Shall Be, and All that Was (tome)|a great book]], black and white, black and white for ever until the End.  And all that is to be is written in the book is also all that was.  When Trogool turneth a black page it is night, and when It turneth a white page it is day, and because it is written that there are gods—there are the gods; also there is writing about thee and me until the page where our names no more are written.  Trogool is the Thing that men in many countries have called by many names: It is the Thing that sits behind the gods, whose book is the Scheme of Things.  Certain aged men of Bodrahan say that far away upon a place named Earth shall rise the prayers of a little people that acclaim the name of Trogool, for there is indeed far off a place called Earth where men shall pray to Trogool, and indeed there sitteth somewhere a Thing that is called Trogool, that is neither god nor beast, that turneth the leaves of a book, black and white, black and white, until he come to the words: ''Mai Doon Izahn'', which means ''The End For Ever'', and book and gods and worlds shall be no more.
+'''Trogool''', The Thing that is Neither God Nor Beast.  Far to the South, beyond the edge of Earth, and beyond the Moon, and beyond all the worlds, upon the heap of rocks that were discarded unused by the gods when they had finised making the worlds, sits Trogool.  Trogool is the Thing that is neither god nor beast, who neither howls nor breathes, only It turns over the leaves of [[The Book of All that Shall Be, and All that Was (tome)|a great book]], black and white, black and white for ever until the End.  And all that is to be is written in the book is also all that was.  When Trogool turneth a black page it is night, and when It turneth a white page it is day, and because it is written that there are gods—there are the gods; also there is writing about thee and me until the page where our names no more are written.  Trogool is the Thing that men in many countries have called by many names: It is the Thing that sits behind the gods, whose book is the Scheme of Things.  Certain aged men of [[River_Yann#Bodrahan.2C_Afrik.2C_Ranorada|Bodrahan]] say that far away upon a place named Earth shall rise the prayers of a little people that acclaim the name of Trogool, for there is indeed far off a place called Earth where men shall pray to Trogool, and indeed there sitteth somewhere a Thing that is called Trogool, that is neither god nor beast, that turneth the leaves of a book, black and white, black and white, until he come to the words: ''Mai Doon Izahn'', which means ''The End For Ever'', and book and gods and worlds shall be no more.
 == The Small Gods ==

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	=== The Bright One ===		=== The Bright One ===
−	The Gods, each according to their sign, decided that they should raise up their hands together and chose the Bright One with the shining tail, to set out from one end of the worlds to seek to the other side, and to return again in an age and seek again for another age and so on forever, to seek and never to find out the place where Mana-Yood-Sushai was told by Fate or Chance to make the Gods, and to try to find out which of the two told Mana-Yood-Sushai to make the Gods, and why. The Star-Gazers at the Temple of Cappadarnia remind us that, when we see a comet, we should remember that another besides ourselves forever seeks, yet never finds out.	+	The Gods, each according to their sign, decided that they should raise up their hands together and chose the Bright One with the shining tail, to set out from one end of the worlds to seek to the other side, and to return again in an age and seek again for another age and so on forever, to seek and never to find out the place where Mana-Yood-Sushai was told by Fate or Chance to make the Gods, and to try to find out which of the two told Mana-Yood-Sushai to make the Gods, and why. The Star-Gazers at the [[River_Yann#Plains_of_Tlun_.28Cappadarnia.29\|Temple of Cappadarnia]] remind us that, when we see a comet, we should remember that another besides ourselves forever seeks, yet never finds out.

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 '''Time''', the Hound of the gods, the mother of a thousand hours, who together with her young serve the gods by hunting down and destroying all things on the command of Sish.
-In the city of Astahahn, it has been said of old that Time will one day turn on her masters, and seek to slay the gods, excepting only Mana-Yood-Sushai, so the people of the city long ago fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the Gods.  But the city and the people have grown old and weary and forgetful, and the manacles and fetters have grown weak and frail, yet Time is wakeful and strong always, and will one day break loose, and run again free.
+In the [[River_Yann#Astahahn|city of Astahahn]], it has been said of old that Time will one day turn on her masters, and seek to slay the gods, excepting only Mana-Yood-Sushai, so the people of the city long ago fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the Gods.  But the city and the people have grown old and weary and forgetful, and the manacles and fetters have grown weak and frail, yet Time is wakeful and strong always, and will one day break loose, and run again free.
 Some of the hermits and wise men of the hills of Pen-Kai say that Time shall not slay the Gods, but the Gods shall die by the bedside of the last man, and on that day Time shall go mad in her solitude and shall no longer know her hours from her centuries of years, and the hours shall clamour around her crying for recognition and she shall lay her stricken hands on their heads and stare at them blindly and say, 'My children, I do not know you one from another', and at these words of Time empty worlds shall reel.

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 Prayers are frequently said at times of expected trouble, such as before night, and after trouble arises, or for blessings upon the praying one's enterprises; the prayers are seldom answered, but it would be in poor taste not to say them, or to remark upon the gods' neglect in answering them.
-The Gods of Pegana are not jealous gods, and in many of the greatest cities of Pegana, in addition to shrines and temples dedicated to local gods, there is often a large Temple to All the Gods Save One (as Mana-Yood-Sushai is not to be prayed to by men).  The Temple Priests typically perform simple and humble ceremonies to avoid insulting the gods, and in return the people of the city give the priests suitable gifts which grant the priests a living, upon which many priests have happily fattened and prospered.  Many large temples also attract great prophets from distant, who are also given modest gifts, but are rarely prosperous, rarely fat, and rarely happy.
+The Gods of Pegana are not jealous gods, and in many of the greatest cities of Pegana, in addition to shrines and temples dedicated to local gods, there is often a large Temple to All the Gods Save One (as Mana-Yood-Sushai is not to be prayed to by men).  The Temple Priests typically perform simple and humble ceremonies to avoid insulting the gods, and in return the people of the city give the priests suitable gifts which grant the priests a living, upon which many priests have happily fattened and prospered.  Many large temples also attract great prophets from distant places, who are also given modest gifts, but are rarely prosperous, rarely fat, and rarely happy.
 Smaller villages make do with humbler shrines to the local gods, with simple prayers from simple villagers said to their local gods, and "to all the gods that are, to whatever god may hear, save One".
 ==Associated Mythos Elements==

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 === The Old Gods, and The New ===
-All those Gods that are not worshipped now are asleep, and for three or four thousand years a god is worshipped and for three or four he sleeps.  The prophets of new Gods teach teach of new Gods when they hear the sleeping Gods stirring in their sleep being about to wake, because the dawn is breaking, and the priests crow, and these are the happy prophets. Unhappy are the prophets that hear some old god speak while he sleeps, still being deep in slumber, and prophesy and prophesy though no dawn comes;  they are prophets that men stone saying, 'Prophesy where this stone shall hit you, and this.'  ([[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]])
+All those Gods that are not worshiped now are asleep, and for three or four thousand years a god is worshiped and for three or four he sleeps.  The prophets of new Gods teach of new Gods when they hear the sleeping Gods stirring in their sleep being about to wake, because the dawn is breaking, and the priests crow, and these are the happy prophets. Unhappy are the prophets that hear some old god speak while he sleeps, still being deep in slumber, and prophesy though no dawn comes;  they are prophets that men stone saying, 'Prophesy where this stone shall hit you, and this.'  ([[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany|Lord Dunsany]])
 ==Keeper Notes==

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 === Hoodrazai ===
 [[File:Sime hoodrazai.png|200px|thumb|right|[[Sydney Sime]], "The Visage of Hoodrazai at Ranorada"]]
-Hoodrazai, the Visage of '''Ranorada''', The Eye in the Waste, the God Who Knows.  Hoodrazai, who hath found the secret of Mana-Yood-Sushai, and knoweth the wherefore of the making of the gods.  They say that Hoodrazai stands all alone in Pegana and speaks to none because he knows what is hidden from the gods.  They say that Hoodrazai stands all alone in Pegana and speaks to none because he knows what is hidden from the gods, therefore the gods have made his image in a lonely land as one who thinks and is silent - the eye in the waste.  They say that Hoodrazai had heard the murmers of Mana-Yood-Sushai as he muttered to himself, and gleaned the meaning, and knew; and that he was once the god of mirth and of abundant joy, but became from the moment of his knowing a mirthless god, even as his image, which regards the deserts beyond the track of man.
+Hoodrazai, the Visage of '''[[River_Yann#Bodrahan.2C_Afrik.2C_Ranorada|Ranorada]]''', The Eye in the Waste, the God Who Knows.  Hoodrazai, who hath found the secret of Mana-Yood-Sushai, and knoweth the wherefore of the making of the gods.  They say that Hoodrazai stands all alone in Pegana and speaks to none because he knows what is hidden from the gods.  They say that Hoodrazai stands all alone in Pegana and speaks to none because he knows what is hidden from the gods, therefore the gods have made his image in a lonely land as one who thinks and is silent - the eye in the waste.  They say that Hoodrazai had heard the murmers of Mana-Yood-Sushai as he muttered to himself, and gleaned the meaning, and knew; and that he was once the god of mirth and of abundant joy, but became from the moment of his knowing a mirthless god, even as his image, which regards the deserts beyond the track of man.
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 ** "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]"
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 All these are gods so small that they be lesser than men, but pleasant gods to have beside the hearth.  These be the gods of the hearth: '''Pitsu''', who stroketh the cat; '''Hobith''' who calms the dog, and little '''Zumbiboo''', the lord of dust; and old '''Gribaun''', who sits in the heart of the fire to turn the wood to ash.  There is also '''Kilooloogung''', the lord of arising smoke, who taketh the smoke from the hearth and sendeth it to the sky.  And '''Jabim''' is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away, and the forgotten things that drift upon the river's edge.
-And '''Habaniah''', the lord of glowing embers, and also '''Triboogie''', the Lord of Dusk, whose children are the shadows, who sitteth in a corner far off from Habaniah and speaketh to none, but after Habaniah hath gone to sleep , then doth Triboogie send his children to run about the room and dance upon the walls, but never disturb the silence.  And when it is dark, all in the hour of Triboogie, '''Hish'' the Lord of Silence creepeth from the forest, whose children are the bats, that have broken the command of their father, but in a voice that is ever so low; Hish husheth the mouse and all the whispers in the night; he maketh all noises still, and only the cricket rebelleth, though Hish hath set against him such a spell that after he hath cried a thousand times his voice may be heard no more but becometh part of the silence.  But away in the forest whence Hish hath come '''Wohoon''', the Lord of Noises in the Night, and the wolf and the fox and the owl, and the great beasts and the small, lift up their voices to acclaim Wohoon.
+And '''Habaniah''', the lord of glowing embers, and also '''Triboogie''', the Lord of Dusk, whose children are the shadows, who sitteth in a corner far off from Habaniah and speaketh to none, but after Habaniah hath gone to sleep , then doth Triboogie send his children to run about the room and dance upon the walls, but never disturb the silence.  And when it is dark, all in the hour of Triboogie, '''Hish''' the Lord of Silence creepeth from the forest, whose children are the bats, that have broken the command of their father, but in a voice that is ever so low; Hish husheth the mouse and all the whispers in the night; he maketh all noises still, and only the cricket rebelleth, though Hish hath set against him such a spell that after he hath cried a thousand times his voice may be heard no more but becometh part of the silence.  But away in the forest whence Hish hath come '''Wohoon''', the Lord of Noises in the Night, and the wolf and the fox and the owl, and the great beasts and the small, lift up their voices to acclaim Wohoon.
 A '''God Unknown to Perdóndaris''' sends forth thunder from the hills beyond the doomed city, and the people of Perdóndaris say prayers to the God They Know Not for sending back the thunder to the hills, upon which the god then sends the thunder back to the hills.  Once the god sent the thunder, and forgot to call it back, and Perdóndaris is no more.  The old men of Perdóndaris tell a story that God Unknown once walked in the shape of a vast, tusked beast, who was slain by the ivory hunter Singanee, the Avenger of Perdóndaris; one of the God's mighty tusks has been carved into a bridge in Perdóndaris, the other was carved into the gate of Perdóndaris, before the God Unknown came unto Perdóndaris to strike the city down because it had taken the tusk and carved it into its mighty gate.  Perhaps the God Unknown to Perdóndaris will return one day to punish the city for carving its other tusk into a gate, who can say?
 And there were three home gods of the rivers, '''Eimës''', '''Zänës''', and '''Segástrion''', who once joined each other in rebellion against man, wrecking cities and slaying men, until the gods sent the drought Umbool to make war upon the gods of the rivers, and tame them again.  The gods of the rivers rebel no more against the gods of Pegana.
 === The Bright One ===

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 === Slid ===
-'''Slid''', Lord of gliding waters and of foaming waters and of still, Lord of all the waters in the world and all the streams in the hill, whose soul is in the sea, where goeth all that glides upon the Earth, the end of all the rivers.  One of the younger gods.  Slid made war upon the older gods of Pegana, threatening to drown the world with his waters, until the gods subdued him with the mountains.  Slid has joined the other gods, and and rebels no more.
+'''Slid''', Lord of gliding waters and of foaming waters and of still, green and dripping Lord of all the waters in the world and all the streams in the hill, whose soul is in the sea, where goeth all that glides upon the Earth, the end of all the rivers.  One of the younger gods.  Slid made war upon the older gods of Pegana, threatening to drown the world with his waters, until the gods subdued him with the mountains.  Slid has joined the other gods, and and rebels no more.  It was Slid who ordered that no Man shall pray to Mana-Yood-Sushai, lest the prayers trouble the Sleeper, disturb the sleep and awaken the god too soon.  So it was that Slid ordered man to pray only to the small gods, the gods of Doing, instead of to Mana-Yood-Sushai, the God of Having Done and of Resting.
 === Kib ===