“One day as a man trod upon the road that Kib had given him to tread he came suddenly upon Mung. And when Mung said: ‘I am Mung!’ the man cried out: ‘Alas, that I took this road, for had I gone by any other way then had I not met with Mung.’ And Mung said: ‘Had it been possible for thee to go by any other way then had the Scheme of Things been otherwise and the gods had been other gods. When MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI forgets to rest and makes again new gods it may be that They will send thee again into the Worlds; and then thou mayest choose some other way, and not meet with Mung.’ Then Mung made the sign of Mung. And the Life of that man went forth with yesterday’s regrets and all old sorrows and forgotten things—whither Mung knoweth. And Mung went onward with his work to sunder Life from flesh…”
Alias Mung, Lord of all Deaths between Pegāna and the Rim
First Publisher Elkin Mathews, 1905; Pegana Press, 1937
Appearance List Later editions: The Gods of Pegana with S. H. Sime’s photogravure plates (Pegana Press, 1911), The Gods of Pegana with Sime illustrations (1916), The Gods of Pegana (3rd ed., 1919), Beyond the Fields We Know (Ballantine, 1972) ed. Lin Carter.
Description “One day as a man trod upon the road that Kib had given him to tread he came suddenly upon Mung. And when Mung said: ‘I am Mung!’ the man cried out: ‘Alas, that I took this road, for had I gone by any other way then had I not met with Mung.’ And Mung said: ‘Had it been possible for thee to go by any other way then had the Scheme of Things been otherwise and the gods had been other gods. When MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI forgets to rest and makes again new gods it may be that They will send thee again into the Worlds; and then thou mayest choose some other way, and not meet with Mung.’ Then Mung made the sign of Mung. And the Life of that man went forth with yesterday’s regrets and all old sorrows and forgotten things—whither Mung knoweth. And Mung went onward with his work to sunder Life from flesh…”
