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with my wrath and harry them and multiply their sufferings
enormously. And behold, I will cause them all to fall down and worship
me, forasmuch as my brothers have all fled, I only remain, and I
only am God in the world. And all men shall worship me and raise
the sweet odor of sacrifice to me and I shall have Lordship and
Dominion over all things, and the world shall be mine
(The copy of the manuscript breaks off here.)
NOTE
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TESTAMENT OF THE
SNAKE PEOPLE
This strange fragment was discovered in the ruins of a Nyissan temple
during an exploratory expedition by the twenty-third Imperial legion
into northern Nyissa following the Alorn invasion of the land of the
Snake People during the early forty-first century. The antiquity of the
fragment and the general condition of the ruins of the temple in which
it was found indicate that both more probably date back to the time of
the invasion of the Marags rather than the more recent Alorn incursion.
lived we in caves,
beside still brooks
and in mossy dells,
and
ISSA
was with
(dull-eyed ISSA with cold skin)
- Praise the glory of ISSKs name
were we to bask in sun
on warm rocl,.
and to slither at night
into dens cool and dry
beneath the rocks,
moved among us
the movements,
sinuous and subtle)
our scent from
and touched our faces
and lapped
and
ISSA