Dunsany presents a cycle of brief creation stories, divine genealogies, prayers, and prophecies centered on Mana-Yood-Sushai, whose sleep sustains the lesser gods while Skarl’s drumming keeps him asleep. The scripture-like repetitions and remote invented names offer no hero’s quest; instead, successive myths enlarge a cosmos shadowed by the possibility that its maker will wake and gods, worlds, and Time will end.