# Pegāna Mung — The Gods of Pegāna character guide

> Pegāna Mung in The Gods of Pegāna by Lord Dunsany.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Mung

**First appearance:** 0002-the-gods-of-peg-na

## Snapshot

The god whose sign points toward the end, treading silently in gardens and answering prayers with the one mercy no prophet dares promise.

## Who they are

Mung moves through Pegāna as the god men fear and worship because they fear him, his sign a sentence no mortal can appeal. Where prophets fatten on gifts and tell the people what they wish to hear, Mung comes unbidden — through a garden at night, past a window, to a door — and his coming strips away every comfortable lie. He is the pressure that turns the book's early theology into dread, the reason its prophets must decide whether to speak hope or truth.

## In the story

### [Of the Game of the Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-the-game-of-the-gods)

Jealous of Kib's work, sends death among beasts and men but cannot stamp them out.

### [Concerning Sish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/concerning-sish)

Goes behind Sish, and withheld his footsteps at the borders of Wornath-Mavai.

### [The Deeds of Mung](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-deeds-of-mung)

Mung is the central figure, the Lord of All Deaths, who walks everywhere and confronts mortals with the sign of Mung.

### [The Chaunt of the Priests](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-chaunt-of-the-priests)

The god to whom the priests cry out, but who does not harken.

### [The Sayings of Limpang-Tung](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-sayings-of-limpang-tung)

Referenced as 'the Striker' and 'the Relentless One' whose hand stays not for prayers.

### [The Revolt of the Home Gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-revolt-of-the-home-gods)

Sent by the gods to fetch Umbool to quell the rebellion of the home gods.

### [Yug the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/yug-the-prophet)

Seen by Yug making the sign of Mung behind the hills.

### [Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/alhireth-hotep-the-prophet)

Appears behind Alhireth-Hotep, makes the sign of Mung, and confronts the prophet's claim of knowing all things.

### [Kabok the Prophet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/kabok-the-prophet)

The god who treads in Kabok's garden and makes the sign of Mung against him.

### [Of the Calamity That Befell Yūn-Ilāra by the Sea, and of the Building of the Tower of the Ending of Days](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-the-calamity-that-befell-y-n-il-ra-by-the-sea-and-of-the-building-of-the-tower-of-the-ending-of-days)

The god of death and dark things, whom Yūn-Ilāra curses but who never heeds him.

### [Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-how-the-gods-whelmed-sidith)

One of the gods prayed to by the priests in the Temple of All the gods save One.

### [Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec of All the Gods Save One](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/of-how-imbaun-became-high-prophet-in-aradec-of-all-the-gods-save-one)

Mentioned as the region above which a stirring is felt as the end nears.

### [Pegāna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/peg-na)

Mung is referenced as the god who makes the sign of Mung against a man, signifying death.

### [The River](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-river)

Makes the sign of Mung over those who board the ship and pass from sleeping to the River.

### [The Bird of Doom and the End](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-bird-of-doom-and-the-end)

According to the Saigoth heresy, Mung turns alone to fight the hound Time with the Sword of Severing, Death.

## Links

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