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== The Revolt of the Home Gods ==
There be three broad rivers of the plain, born before memory
or fable, whose mothers are three grey peaks and whose
father was the storm. Their names be Eimes, Zanes, and
Segastrion. 
And Eimes is the joy of lowing herds; and Zanes hath
bowed his neck to the yoke of man, and carries the timber
from the forest far up below the mountain; and Segastrion
sings old songs to shepherd boys, singing of his childhood
in a low ravine and of how he once sprang down the mountain
sides and far away into the plain to see the world, and of
how one day at last he will find the sea. These be the
rivers of the plain, wherein the plain rejoices. But old
men tell, whose fathers heard it from the ancients, how once
the lords of the three rivers of the plain rebelled against
the law of the Worlds, and passed beyond their boundaries,
and joined together and whelmed cities and slew men, saying:
"We now play the game of the gods and slay men for our
pleasure, and we be greater than the gods of Pegana." 
And all the plain was flooded to the hills. 
And Eimes, Zanes, and Segastrion sat upon the mountains,
and spread their hands over the rivers that rebelled by
their command. 
But the prayer of men going upward found Pegana, and
cried in the ear of the gods: "There be three home gods who
slay us for Their pleasure, and say that they be mightier
than Pegana's gods, and play Their game with men." 
Then were all the gods of Pegana very wroth; but They
could not whelm the lords of the three rivers, because being
home gods, though small, they were immortal. 
And still the home gods spread their hands across the
rivers, with their fingers wide apart, and the waters rose
and rose, and the voice of their torrent grew louder,
crying: "Are we not Eimes, Zanes, and Segastrion?" 
Then Mung went down into a waste of Afrik, and came upon
the drought Umbool as he sat in the desert upon iron rocks,
clawing with miserly grasp at the bones of men and breathing
hot. 
And Mung stood before him as his dry sides heaved, and
ever as they sank his hot breath blasted dead sticks and
bones. 
Then Mung said: "Friend of Mung! go thou and grin before
the faces of Eimes, Zanes, and Segastrion till they see
whether it be wise to rebel against the gods of Pegana." 
And Umbool answered: "I am the beast of Mung." 
And Umbool came and crouched upon a hill upon the other
side of the waters and grinned across them at the rebellious
home gods. 
And whenever Eimes, Zanes, and Segastrion stretched out
their hands over their rivers they saw before their faces
the grinning of Umbool; and because the grinning was like
death in a hot and hideous land therefore they turned away
and spread their hands no more over the rivers, and the
waters sank and sank. 
But when Umbool had grinned for thirty days the waters
fell back into the river beds and the lords of the rivers
slunk away back again to their homes: still Umbool sat and
grinned. 
Then Eimes sought to hide himself in a great pool beneath
a rock, and Zanes crept into the middle of a wood, and
Segastrion lay and panted on the sand -- still Umbool sat
and grinned. 
And Eimes grew lean, and was forgotten, so that the men
of the plains would say: "Here once was Eimes"; and Zanes
scarcely had strength to lead his river to the sea; and as
Segastrion lay and panted, a man stepped over his stream,
and Segastrion said: "It is the foot of a man that has
passed across my neck, and I have sought to be greater than
the gods of Pegana." 
Then said the gods of Pegana: "It is enough. We are the
gods of Pegana, and none are equal." 
Then Mung sent Umbool back to his waste in Afrik to
breathe again upon the rocks, and parch the desert, and to
sear the memory of Afrik into the brains of all who ever
bring their bones away. 
And Eimes, Zanes, and Segastrion sang again, and walked
once more in their accustomed haunts, and played the game of
Life and Death with fishes and frogs, but never essayed to
play it any more with men, as do the gods of Pegana.
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 == The Revolt of the Home Gods ==
 There be three broad rivers of the plain, born before memory