Time and the Gods
Mythological tales of creation, gods, and the dawn of the world in lyrical prose. Timeless fantasy from a master storyteller.
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Time and the Gods, published in 1906, is Lord Dunsany's second collection of fantasy stories, creating an entire mythology of gods, creation, and the cosmos. Written in deliberately archaic, biblical prose, these tales evoke ancient myths while being entirely original.
The stories tell of the gods who dwell in Pegāna, how they created the world, and their relationship with mortals and Time itself. Dunsany invents divine beings like Mana-Yood-Sushai who dreamed the universe into existence, and MĀNA the creator of gods, crafting a cosmology both fantastical and philosophical.
Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett) pioneered fantasy as a literary genre, influencing writers from J.R.R. Tolkien to H.P. Lovecraft to Ursula K. Le Guin. His ornate, mythological style and invented pantheons established conventions still used in fantasy today. Time and the Gods stands as a cornerstone of fantasy literature—a work of pure imagination that reads like discovered scripture from an unknown civilization.
