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Updated: May 20, 2025
But as the gods slept, there came from beyond the Rim, out of the dark and unknown, three Yozis, spirits of ill, that sailed up the river of Silence in galleons with silver sails. Far away they had seen Yum and Gothum, the stars that stand sentinel over Pegana's gate, blinking and falling asleep, and as they neared Pegana they found a hush wherein the gods slept heavily.
But the people answered, saying from the shore: "Our gods have given us already the good things, and we return Them the worship that is Their due." And the Yozis set their faces to landward, and cursed all things that had been and all the years that were, and sailed in their galleons away. A rocky shore in an inhuman land stood up against the sea.
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 said the Yozis: "Hath Agrodaun answered prayer?" And the people heard the words that the Yozis said.
The old man answered, standing upon the shore: "Though all the gods of old shall answer our prayers no longer, yet still to the gods of old shall all men pray here in Syrinais." But the Yozis turned their ships about and angrily sailed away, all cursing Syrinais and Syrinais's gods, but most especially the old man that stood upon the shore.
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 fisher folk answered: "Here we worship Rahm, the Thunder, and have no worship nor sacrifice for other gods." Then the Yozis snarled with anger and sailed away, and sailed till they came to another shore, sandy and low and forsaken. And at last they found an old man upon the shore, and they cried out to him: "Old man upon the shore!
But where sky met with ocean, the Yozis saw land again, and thither sailed; and there the Yozis saw men in strange old garments performing ancient rites in a land of many temples. And the Yozis called to the men as they performed their ancient rites and said: "We be three gods well versed in the needs of men, to worship whom were to obtain instant joy." But the men said: "We have already gods."
And men could not discern what they were, for their bodies were bodies of men, though their souls were still the souls of beasts and their worship went to the Yozis, spirits of ill.
Rather give us your prayers and have our pleasures, the pleasures that we shall give you, and when your gods shall come, let them be wroth they cannot punish you." But the people continued to sacrifice their labour to their gods, the years to come, making the world a place for gods to dwell in, and the Yozis cursed those gods and sailed away.
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