title: I AM Discourses by the Gods of the Mountains Volume 20 (Saint Germain)
author: Ascended Master Gods of the Mountains
description: Dictations given by the Four Gods of the Mountains to the Messenger Mrs. G. W. Ballard, published by Saint Germain Press
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  ## The Other Gods
  
  
  ### by H. P. Lovecraft
  
  
  Written 14 August 1921
  
  
  Published November 1933 in _The Fantasy Fan_ , Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 35-38.
  
  
  
  
  
  Atop the tallest of earth's peaks dwell the gods of earth, and suffer not man
  to tell that he hath looked upon them. Lesser peaks they once inhabited; but
  ever the men from the plains would scale the slopes of rock and snow, driving
  the gods to higher and higher mountains till now only the last remains. When
  they left their old peaks they took with them all signs of themselves, save
  once, it is said, when they left a carven image on the face of the mountain
  which they called Ngranek.
  
  
  But now they have betaken themselves to unknown Kadath in the cold waste where
  no man treads, and are grown stern, having no higher peak whereto to flee at
  the coming of men. They are grown stern, and where once they suffered men to
  displace them, they now forbid men to come; or coming, to depart. It is well
  for men that they know not of Kadath in the cold 