Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai
An immense reclining figure rests among clouds beneath a dense canopy of decorative forms. A much smaller drummer sits below the sleeping body. Sime gives visual scale to Dunsany’s myth of Mana-Yood-Sushai and the dreams in which the gods exist.
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S. H. Sime. "The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai" [editorial title]. In The Gods of Pegāna, Lord Dunsany; illustrations by S. H. Sime. Supplied illustrated edition from The Pegana Press, 1911, The Pegana Press. Source scan leaf 17. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/sime-dreams-of-mana-yood-sushai
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The full source page, including its printed caption, is preserved. The text identifies these figures within Lord Dunsany’s imagined mythology.
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S. H. Sime. The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai. The Gods of Pegāna. Scan leaf 17. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/sime-dreams-of-mana-yood-sushai