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/OfDorozhand - /OftheThingthatisNeitherGodnorBeast
== The Eye in the Waste ==
There lie seven deserts beyond Bodrahahn, which is the city
of the caravans end. None goeth beyond. In the first
desert lie the tracks of mighty travellers outward from
Bodrahahn, and some returning. And in the second lie only
outward tracks, and none return. 
The third is a desert untrodden by the feet of men. 
The fourth is the desert of sand, and the fifth is the
desert of dust, and the sixth is the desert of stones, and
the seventh is the Desert of Deserts. 
In the midst of the last of the deserts that lie beyond
Bodrahahn, in the centre of the Desert of Deserts, standeth
the image that hath been hewn of old out of the living hill
whose name is Ranorada -- the eye in the waste. 
About the base of Ranorada is carved in mystic letters
that are vaster than the beds of streams these words:

To the god who knows.

Now, beyond the second desert are no tracks, and there is
no water in all the seven deserts that lie beyond
Bodrahahn. Therefore came no man thither to hew that statue
from the living hills, and Ranorada was wrought by the hands
of gods. Men tell in Bodrahahn, where the caravans end and
all the drivers of the camels rest, how once the gods hewed
Ranorada from the living hill, hammering all night long
beyond the deserts. Moreover, they say that Ranorada is
carved in the likeness of the god Hoodrazai, who hath found
the secret of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, and knoweth the wherefore of
the making of the gods. 
They say that Hoodrazai stands all alone in Pegana and
speaks to none because he knows what is hidden from the
gods. 
Therefore the gods have made his image in a lonely land
as one who thinks and is silent -- the eye in the waste. 
They say that Hoodrazai had heard the murmurs of
MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI as he muttered to himself, and gleaned the
meaning, and knew; and that he was the god of mirth and of
abundant joy, but became from the moment of his knowing a
mirthless god, even as his image, which regards the deserts
beyond the track of man. 
But the camel drivers, as they sit and listen to the
tales of the old men in the market-place of Bodrahahn, at
evening, while the camels rest, say: "If Hoodrazai is so
very wise and yet is sad, let us drink wine, and banish
wisdom to the wastes that lie beyond Bodrahahn." Therefore
is there feasting and laughter all night long in the city
where the caravans end. 
All this the camel drivers tell when the caravans come in
from Bodrahahn; but who shall credit tales that camel
drivers have heard from aged men in so remote a city?
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 == The Eye in the Waste ==
 There lie seven deserts beyond Bodrahahn, which is the city