#pegana

[skycowboys]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[americaneldritch]

The Dreams of Mana Yood-Sushai, by Sidney Sime, for "Of Skarl the Drummer," from Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana (1905). New colorization by Aladdin Collar, 2025.

[negreabsolut]

La nau de Yoharneth, iŀlustració de Sidney Sime per a Els déus de Pegana, obra literària de Lord Dunsany.

[woeworld]

*makes the sign of mung at you*

[what-mad-universe]

http://neversleepsnetwork.com/podcast/chapter-twelve-all-the-gods-save-one/ In the lost lands of the central sea, a place beyond time, perhaps even existing only in dreams, there is a place where the people have a god they do not worship, lest his waking end the world. Their faith was described in two books and several stories written at the turn of the century by an Irish nobleman that have left a deep mark on the modern fantasy genre, even though he remains obscure outside of genre circles. But Lord Dunsany is likely “your favourite fantasy author’s favourite fantasy author”. Join us as we explore his Pegana mythos.

[meatthawsmoth]

Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to rest. One not to move among the moving. One not to seek like the comet, nor to go round like the worlds; to rest while MANA rests." And They made the Star of the Abiding and set it in the North. Man, when thou seest the Star of the Abiding to the North, know that one resteth as doth MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, and know that somewhere among the Worlds is rest.

Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegana

[americaneldritch]

Mung, from Lord Dunsany’s Gods of Pegana. Illustrated by Aladdin Collar for the Book of Dead Names Project, based on a design by Sidney Sime. 

[isakglaser]

Not even reading this myself, but reading a description of it in a history of fantasy literature when I was ten or eleven set this wonderful impression of Pegana as a fantastic mystic monstrosity of nihilism in my mind that has never been eclipsed by reading the book several times.