#Pegana

[skycowboys]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

#bananasus #pegana #i dont #i dont even know #you can thank my husband for this

[peniswizard69]

Kib art by @berlynn-wohl

#original broth #the gods of pegana #kib #pegana

[oldnarnian5]

Mung and the Beast of Mung, by Sidney Sime

#sidney sime #the gods of pegana

[nephrenklamm]

Slid, Whose Soul is by the Sea

#hsichenart #artists on tumblr #original character #eldritch #mixed media #traditional art #lord dunsany #literature #mythology #my ocs #oc #oc stuff #the gods of pegana #nephren klamm #nephrenklamm

[weirdlookindog]

Sidney H. Sime - Hish, Lord of Silence, 1911

From Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegana (1911).

#sidney h. sime #hish lord of silence #fantasy art #illustration #lord dunsany #the gods of pegana

[titleknown]

Fun thing, if you want an exotic pantheon/mythology you can freely draw from without doing a cultural appropriation, I feel I should point out that Lord Dunsany's "Gods Of Pegana" is very much public domain and really, really cool...

#lord dunsany #the gods of pegana #public domain #silly #worldbuilding

[dazhuangmingyi]

The Gods of Pegana, see how many you can name! ( Free to read online )

#art #fantasy #gods #gods of pegana #mythology #fantasy art #cthulhu mythos

[lostpeace]

A bit old, but here’s Skarl from the Gods of Pegana.

#lord dunsany #skarl the drummer #the gods of pegana #oc

[lightdancer1]

Thanks to Lovecraft being public domain:

One of the bits I use to integrate both my original and my fanfiction work is my take on the Necronomicon/Al-Azif. I usually refer to it with the Arabic name, and since the original Cthulhu mythos referred to volumes I give it 99 volumes. In my stories one of the volumes refers to the Oathkeepers/Kelzhandari, aka the Urhalzantrani....and one of them, even if not by name or more than veiled allusions, is all about the seven Endless who in my own cosmology have a mirror with the Seven Outer Gods.

Abdul Hazred is one of the Riddah prophets in my particular history, and essentially an archetypal evil sorcerer in a specifically Levantine/Hijazi/Arabic context.

As the in-universe ur-example of the Lovecraftian main character, Hazred was a celibate nerd who deciphered the deep truths of the universe, including the Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth cycles and various spells that can actually do measurable damage to various eldritch entities or summon them with a guaranteed result.....though if the person who does the summoning forgets not to call up what they can't put down it's on them when whatever they summon invariably turns on them.

The great lords of Urhalzan/the Kelzhandari are volume 91, the Endless are volume 49 (seven times seven, natchurly).

Those are the only set of volumes that I have with specific numbers, while the Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu cycles dominate a much larger portion of the narrative, along with various myths and couplets of the Dreamlands. And as far as it goes, Lovecraft did the 'collective unconsciousness of sapient life manifests as dreams and dreaming as fantasy' thing more successfully in the long term than his predecessor Dunsany and both predate Gaiman's Sandman mythology.

I do integrate aspects of Pegana and the Lovecraft Dreamlands as a part of the Dreaming in the Sandman-centric tales. Celephais and Sarnath and Kadath in the Cold Waste and the various monsters of Lovecraft's dreamlands, as well as the Gods of Pegana (Mung is Death, the figure who has a book that holds the future of the world and when the future ends the world ends with it is Destiny and that one in particular is so close to Destiny that if Gaiman didn't riff on that for his cosmology it is an identical concept, at least).

#death of the endless #dream of the endless #the dreaming #dreamlands cycle #cthulhu mythos #if you ever read the Lovecraft Dreamlands cycles #or Dunsany's Pegana stories #the similarities to Sandman will be interesting to readers who've only seen what Gaiman did with it #Dunsany it should be noted is the biggest cynic of the lot #yes Lovecraft the horrid racist was LESS cynical than the Brit #the standard US vs UK dichotomy still holds true here

[elvencantation]

I lay in the desert beyond all cities and sounds, and above me flowed the River of Silence through the sky; and on the desert's edge night fought against the Sun, and suddenly conquered.

…

But ere the day comes back to her own again, and all the conquering armies of the dawn hurl their red lances in the face of night, Yoharneth-Lahai leaves the sleeping Worlds, and rows back up the River of Silence, that flows from Pegana into the Sea of Silence that lies beyond the Worlds.

The Gods of Pegana, by Lord Dunsany

#lord dunsany #book quote #book quotes #quotes #the gods of pegana #blue reads

[thursdayplaid]

And another random ask- if someone gave you a billion pounds to translate any book into a TV show, which book would you choose?

The answer changes back and forth depending on what's in the front of my mind, but right now probably The Gods of Pegana. Part of me wants to do shadow puppets, because shadow puppets hits the sweet spot in symbology and ancient craft. There's a lot in the book, but not a lot on the page, if that makes sense, so it would be difficult to adapt. That being said, a historical epic traveling from when Fate and Chance rolled the dice to see who would get to commission Creation to the establishment of the different peoples to Mung fighting the Hound, Time as the gods escaped on their golden ships would be splendid.

My second answer is to make a series based on the ghost stories of M R James and combine them into one world as a sort of Office of the Antiquary adventures. I love his gay academics and the way he uses all the senses to give a sense of horror. His stories aren't technically a connected series directly, but the office of the antiquary comes up a lot and the narrator for most of the stories could be argued to be the same person. It's also great because there's potential room for dark academia hijinks in between stories, and the series could be extended with other similar stories. Parkins and his boyfriend could show up again to do ghost hunting, we can two part a lot of the stories, and there can never be enough horror series.

#M R James #The Gods of Pegana

[peniswizard69]

The Gods of Pegana as emojis:

MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI 💤

Skarl 🥁

Kib 🌿

Sish and Time ⏳️🐕

Slid 🌊

Mung 😵

Limpang-Tung 🎼

Yoharneth-Lahai 💭

Roon and the thousand home gods 🎺 🐱🐶🔥💨♨️⬆️💔🌆☻️🤫🦇🦉

The three rivers named in The Revolt of the Home Gods, and Umbool 🏞🏞🏞🏜

Dorozhand 👀

Hoodrazai 👁

Trogool 📓

Mosahn 🐦

#the gods of pegana #lord dunsany

[oldnarnian5]

Mung and the Beast of Mung by Sidney Sime

#sidney sime #weird art #Lord Dunsany #gods of pegana

[nephrenklamm]

The Quest and the Curse-Part 1

repost

It's still a long way to finish this whole series

#artists on tumblr #hsichenart #nephren klamm #nephrenklamm #randolph carter #the gods of pegana #the dream quest of unknown kadath #dreamland #fantasy #lord dunsany #howard phillips lovecraft #greek mythology #mythical creatures #outer gods #nyarlathotep

[not-souleaterpost]

Lord Dunsany and the broken telephone of "fantasy"

So for my weekly post that nobody will care for, I'll again squeeze out some shit related to a topic I researched for the iceberg, but that doesnt really have anything to do with Soul Eater:

Lord Dunsany is often quted in some "deeplore" "well akshually" stuff to be the father of "modern fantasy", but did all the people who read him miss the point?

So I'll start by saying I wasnt ever into fantasy, it allways seemed kinda corny, only stuff I cared was LoTR cause I kinda grew up and around people were obssesed with it and DQ, cause of the DBZ bleed over and because I just like the slimes lol.

That may makes me disqualified about commenting, but eh, I dunno, I think my point will still stand, cause I will bring it back to Tolkien now:

Some people say he was inspired by Dunsanys "word building" to make his own overly convoluted mythology, but here lies my objection:

The two books I read of Dunsany about "the gods of Pegana" seem not really care about the "lore"

They seem to be written in the style as if they were some holy book, yet the names seem deliberately random and often the storys are either contradictory or mix up the details to make a point and to reflect that feeling of myths that arent organized by some obsessive nerd wiki for logical consistency.

Because in the end the books arent about "fantasy" (atleast the ones I have read), but as kinda didactic laments about the authors perceived nihilism and meaninglessnes/cruelty of the world.

Ok that may be reductive, cause there are many vivid and even beautiful or fascinating things described, but in the end you feel that tone of "Oh that is like fanfiction from the Bible book about how everythings is just meaningles vapor" tone.

Like in "the gods and time" there is a great short story about a prophet who sees the "true gods" and abondons the old ones for them with his followers, only to repeatedly then see even greater gods, only to lose more and more of his acolytes with each subsequent trip and in the end arive back at the old gods he rejected at the star - basically a commentary at the foly for the strive of knowledge or about how things are more simple at the end of it all than one trys to think.

But the important thing is that the "gods" of this short story dont really matter more than for the point they make in it - I would be surprised that for example the "mocking gods" have some specific lore, events and super powers etc like shit in Tolkiens stuff has, or in modern generic fantasy, where everyone is some world or warcraft charachter shooting magical auras.

Still, maybe Im ignorant, and in all the other storys there actually is that feeling of a shared mythology and "wordbuilding" besides the tone of "life's a bitch and then you die"

Anyways, what was the point of this all? I guess to say that it is kinda sad that an innovatitive form of literature gets reduced into the current state of "top ten word building tips!" videos on youtube.

Ok maybe thats to harsh, even I know how fun it is to come up with a setting and its own intrincitys, but still, I think one shouldnt limit oneself to that - its like watching DBZ for the power levels - when the point is that they dont matter.

But in the end, maybe this post just shows my own ignorance - maybe most fantasy does that already. Yet when I allways hear everybody praise some Brandon Sanderson guy, who seems to only care about "magic systems being consistent" and literally color codes his creatures to match emotions or some shit idk😂

And also, I wonder if Tolkien had actually finished more books if he hadnt noodled around with his silly lore matching, especially when it in the end still is contradictory😂🤷‍♂️

Anyways, sorry this kinda sounds more spitful than I wanted, guess its cause I saw some video where they talked about these books as if they were all about just creating some wacky fantasy world, which seemed strange to me after having read even just a small part of his whole work.

So: Yeah...Sorry

#lord dunsany #the gods of pegana #wordbuilding #fantasy #critique #misconceptions #genre fiction #sucks #broken telephone #idk #talking out my ass #research #yeah..sorry #extra credits #kinda suck tbh #or was it extra history #low information reader #Im talking bout myself here lol

[titleknown]

...Okay, so weird thing, I was listening to an audiobook of Lord Dunsany's "The Gods of Pegāna," which is amazing and y'all should check it out, but there was something funny about it.

Namely, the dreaded god of death is named Mung. Which means, whenever they brought up this ominous figure of mortality, I ended up picturing this fucker in my head:

"Were the forty million years before thy coming intolerable to thee? Not less tolerable to thee shall be the forty million years to come!"

#lord dunsany #chowder #mung daal #mung #the gods of pegana #The Gods of Pegāna #silly