First Book of Unicorn: Hoofesis. Chapter 4

Theicides.

1 It so happened that, as humans attacked one another in an orgy of blood and viscerae, the gods they sung of followed suit.
2 And, one by one, they started to perish from wounds so grievous they could not be healed by lore or magic.
3 On the field lay Osiris, struck time and time again, until his heart, the courageous Isis, was smitten by Allah's lance. Osiris did not raise again. Nor did Zeus, Apollo or Ahura Mazda.
4 The male gods, being hale of bodies and of fey mood, slaughtered the goddesses where they found them, and claimed their land by right of conquest. Athena, Ishtar and Aphrodite would be sorely missed, fair of semblance and of mind.
5 And their mortal subjects wrote poems into law, and turned their women into slaves, and bred warriors like locusts, besmirching the Unicorn's Green Grass.
6 And each army adopted a god as their own, and gave him its terrible strength of steel, wheel and hand.
7 And the gods they served became yet more masterful and jealous in their terror.
8 Those who had divided, like Jehovah or Panchanana, endeavoured to swallow the flesh of the others, and the halls of Valhalla became silent, for they repaired to their own realms, ever frightful of treachery by their peers.
9 And the men raised altars to burn the flesh of their enemies and even their friends, so they nourished the strength of the gods.
10 Of the plethora of their council, only a handful remained.