“Then the men of Yarnith when they knew that the Famine came not from the gods, arose and strove against [Yarni Zai]. They dug deep for wells, and slew goats for food high up on Yarnith’s mountains and went afar and gathered blades of grass, where yet it grew, that their cattle might live. Thus they fought the Famine, for they said: ‘If Yarni Zai be not a god, then is there nothing mightier in Yarnith than men, and who is the Famine that he should bare his teeth against the lords of Yarnith?'”
Appearance List Later editions: Time and the Gods (circa 1918, unauthorized omnibus), Time and the Gods (1922) revised by Dunsany, Time and the Gods (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922), Beyond the Fields We Know (Ballantine, 1972) ed. Lin Carter.
Description “Then the men of Yarnith when they knew that the Famine came not from the gods, arose and strove against [Yarni Zai]. They dug deep for wells, and slew goats for food high up on Yarnith’s mountains and went afar and gathered blades of grass, where yet it grew, that their cattle might live. Thus they fought the Famine, for they said: ‘If Yarni Zai be not a god, then is there nothing mightier in Yarnith than men, and who is the Famine that he should bare his teeth against the lords of Yarnith?'”
