# Sish — The Gods of Pegāna character guide

> Sish in The Gods of Pegāna by Lord Dunsany.

**Role:** major

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

## Snapshot

The god of time who devours all things, moving through the ages with a hunger no world or god can outlast.

## Who they are

Sish governs the passing of ages in Pegāna, the force that wears down worlds and gods alike even as they play their games. His presence makes every act of creation provisional — the gods build knowing that time will eat what they make. He is the quiet engine beneath the book's cosmology, the reason its hymns carry both grandeur and grief.

## Relationships

### [Kib](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/characters/kib)

_professional_

Kib, the god of knowledge, serves Sish by recording the events of time.

## In the story

### [The Gods of Pegāna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_gods_of_peg_na_se/chapters/the-gods-of-peg-na)

The god of time, who devours all things and brings decay.

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

The Destroyer of Hours, who ceaselessly moves forward with Time as his hound, destroying all things in his path.

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

Sish is mentioned as the one who banishes years, indicating the passage of time.

### [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 time who ages Yūn-Ilāra and covers his tower with ivy.

### [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)

The paths of Sish are shown to Imbaun, representing the flow of future time.

### [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)

Implied among the gods who depart in the galleons, their faces showing utter calm.

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