 Men may pray to "all the gods but one"; only the gods themselves may pray to Mana-Yood-Sushai.After Mana-Yood-Sushai "made the gods and Skarl", Skarl made a drum and beat on it in order to lull his creator to sleep; he keeps drumming eternally, for "if he cease for an instant then Mana-Yood-Sushai will start awake, and there will be worlds nor gods no more".Dunsany writes that