"The Gods of Pegāna: Pegāna" by Lord Dunsany

Putting words into the mouths of the gods in order to protect your own sinecure? Hmmm.... Well, this isn't the last we hear of Imbaun, so we'll find out here soon enough how that little stunt went for him.

The picture used is "Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden" by Wenzel Peter, from the Vatican Museum, photo taken by faungg's photos, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/).

The follow along: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#PEGANA