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And when those years shall come, they shall accept the worship of a race they knew not, and their people shall make their sacrifice to the years that follow them, who, in their turn, shall minister to the End." Then answered Snyrg: "Gods that shall recompense you not.
But Snyrg leaned forward and whispered, and the baboons went down upon their knees and clasped their hands as men clasp, and chattered prayer and said to one another that these were the gods of old, and gave the Yozis their worship for Snyrg had whispered in their ears that, if they would worship the Yozis, he would make them men.
Then answered Snyrg: "Asleep are Pegana's gods, nor will They wake for the humming of thy prayers which lie in the dust upon Pegana's floor, and over Them Sniracte, the spider of the worlds, hath woven a web of mist. And the squealing of the sacrifice maketh no music in ears that are closed in sleep."
Thither the Yozis came and found no man, but out of the dark from inland towards evening came a herd of great baboons and chattered greatly when they saw the ships. Then spake Snyrg to them: "Have ye, too, a god?" And the baboons spat. Then said the Yozis: "We be seductive gods, having a particular remembrance for little prayers."
But the people answered that in that city men worshipped Agrodaun, the mountain standing alone, and might not worship other gods even though they came in galleons with silver sails, sailing from over the sea. But Snyrg answered: "Certainly Agrodaun is only a mountain, and in no manner a god."
Ya, Ha, and Snyrg were these three Yozis, the lords of evil, madness, and of spite. When they crept from their galleons and stole over Pegana's silent threshold it boded ill for the gods.
And Ya, Ha, and Snyrg set sail in their silver galleons, and went looming down the sea to come to the shores of men. And first they came to an island where were fisher folk; and the folk of the island, running down to the shore cried out to them: "Who be ye?" And the Yozis answered: "We be three gods, and we would have your worship."
And Snyrg replied: "Ye, too?" The men answered: "For we worship the things that have been and all the years that were. Divinely have they helped us, therefore we give them worship that is their due." And the Yozis answered the people: "We be gods of the present and return good things for worship."
Then Snyrg demanded their worship, promising increase of joys, and swearing by the light of his eyes that he would send little flames to leap over the grass, to pursue the enemies of that city and to chase them about the world.
Then the Yozis called to the people as they worked in the fields: "Give us your worship and ye shall have many joys." But the people answered: "We may not worship you." Then answered Snyrg: "Ye also, have ye a god?" And the people answered: "We worship the years to come, and we set the world in order for their coming, as one layeth raiment on the road before the advent of a King.
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