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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...set the world in order for their coming, as one layeth raiment on the road before the advent of a King. 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. 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. And Ya, the Lord of malice, swore that when those years should come, they should see whether it were well for them to have snatched away the worship from three Yozis. And still the Yozis sailed, for they said: "It were better to be birds and have no air to fly in, than to be gods having neither prayers nor worship." 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 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...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1236881354
- ISBN 13 9781236881359
- BindingPaperback
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