title: Gods and Heroes: Itan Legends of the Golden Age Book One
author: Oladele Olusanya
description: Oladele Olusanya was born in Ibadan, Nigeria to Yoruba parents. Educated at the University of Ibadan medical school, the United Kingdom and the United States, he is an accomplished artist, poet, music enthusiast and a passionate advocate of the revival of the history and culture of his Yoruba people. He lives in Dallas, Texas, where he takes time off from writing to run a busy medical practice.
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  A Legend of the Dawn  
    
  
  
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  # A Legend of the Dawn
  
  
  ### by Lord Dunsany
  
  
  
  
  
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  When the worlds and All began the gods were stern and old and They saw the
  Beginning from under eyebrows hoar with years, all but Inzana, Their child,
  who played with the golden ball. Inzana was the child of all the gods. And the
  law before the Beginning and thereafter was that all should obey the gods, yet
  hither and thither went all Pegana's gods to obey the Dawnchild because she
  loved to be obeyed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was dark all over the world and even in Pegana, where dwell the gods, it
  was dark when the child Inzana, the Dawn, first found her golden ball. Then
  running down the stairway of the gods with tripping feet, chalcedony, onyx,
  chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her golden ball across the sky. The