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Inzana

“Inzana was the child of all the gods. And the law before the Beginning and thereafter was that all should obey the gods, yet hither and thither went all Pegana’s gods to obey the Dawnchild because she loved to be obeyed. It was dark all over the world and even in Pegana, where dwell the gods, it was dark when the child Inzana, the Dawn, first found her golden ball. Then running down the stairway of the gods with tripping feet, chalcedony, onyx, chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her golden ball across the sky.”
Alias Inzana
Real Names/Alt Names Inzana
Characteristics Gods of Pegana, Deity, Prehuman Epoch, Public Domain
Creators/Key Contributors Lord Dunsany
First Appearance Time and the Gods (1906)
First Publisher William Heinemann
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.
Sample Read Time and the Gods [Internet Archive]
Description “Inzana was the child of all the gods. And the law before the Beginning and thereafter was that all should obey the gods, yet hither and thither went all Pegana’s gods to obey the Dawnchild because she loved to be obeyed. It was dark all over the world and even in Pegana, where dwell the gods, it was dark when the child Inzana, the Dawn, first found her golden ball. Then running down the stairway of the gods with tripping feet, chalcedony, onyx, chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her golden ball across the sky.”
Source Time and the Gods – Wikipedia
Time and the Gods (1906, Detail) | S. H. Sime
Time and the Gods (1906, Detail) | S. H. Sime