Lovecraft, H P - The Other Gods

VIP免费

2024-11-24 0 0 99.01KB 4 页 5.9玖币

侵权投诉

The Other Gods

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 14 August 1921

Published November 1933 in The Fantasy Fan, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 35-38.

Atop the tallest of earth's peaks dwell the gods of earth, and suffer not man to tell that he

hath looked upon them. Lesser peaks they once inhabited; but ever the men from the

plains would scale the slopes of rock and snow, driving the gods to higher and higher

mountains till now only the last remains. When they left their old peaks they took with

them all signs of themselves, save once, it is said, when they left a carven image on the

face of the mountain which they called Ngranek.

But now they have betaken themselves to unknown Kadath in the cold waste where no

man treads, and are grown stern, having no higher peak whereto to flee at the coming of

men. They are grown stern, and where once they suffered men to displace them, they now

forbid men to come; or coming, to depart. It is well for men that they know not of Kadath

in the cold waste; else they would seek injudiciously to scale it.

Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still of the night the peaks

where once they dwelt, and weep softly as they try to play in the olden way on

remembered slopes. Men have felt the tears of the gods on white-capped Thurai, though

they have thought it rain; and have heard the sighs of the gods in the plaintive dawn-

winds of Lerion. In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends

that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not

lenient as of old.

In Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, once dwelt an old man avid to behold the

gods of earth; a man deeply learned in the seven cryptical books of earth, and familiar

with the Pnakotic Manuscripts of distant and frozen Lomar. His name was Barzai the

Wise, and the villagers tell of how he went up a mountain on the night of the strange

eclipse.

Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and

guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself. It was he who

wisely advised the burgesses of Ulthar when they passed their remarkable law against the

slaying of cats, and who first told the young priest Atal where it is that black cats go at

midnight on St. John's Eve. Barzai was learned in the lore of the earth's gods, and had

gained a desire to look upon their faces. He believed that his great secret knowledge of

gods could shield him from their wrath, so resolved to go up to the summit of high and

rocky Hatheg-Kla on a night when he knew the gods would be there.

Hatheg-Kla is far in the stony desert beyond Hatheg, for which it is named, and rises like

a rock statue in a silent temple. Around its peak the mists play always mournfully, for

文档加载中……请稍候！
如果长时间未打开，您也可以点击刷新试试。

下载文档到电脑，查找使用更方便

5.9 玖币 0人已下载

立即下载 VIP免费下载

Lovecraft, H P - The Other Gods.pdf

共4页,预览1页

还剩页未读，继续阅读

声明：本站为文档C2C交易模式，即用户上传的文档直接被用户下载，本站只是中间服务平台，本站所有文档下载所得的收益归上传人(含作者)所有。玖贝云文库仅提供信息存储空间，仅对用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理，对上载内容本身不做任何修改或编辑。若文档所含内容侵犯了您的版权或隐私，请立即通知玖贝云文库，我们立即给予删除！

Lovecraft, H P - The Other Gods

相关推荐

开通VIP享超值会员特权

作者详情

相关内容

热门标签

举报选择: