Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness

... An eunuch priest of the highest caste sets tapers before a pair of old shoes.
... The dog worries the dirty glove which has seen many better centuries.
... The blind Norns strike a tiny silver anvil with fingers that are mallets. Upon the metal lies a length of blue light.

Creatures of Light and Darkness is a book hard to classify, easy to become entranced by. It tells of the struggle of new Gods to dispose of the old, of Fallen Angels after revolution and millenia of mismanagement, of strife and struggle in the Middle Worlds, caught in the tides between The House of Life and The House of the Death.

It tells of some of the two hundred eighty-three immortals; Thoth, The Prince Who Was A Thousand, father and son of Set the Destroyer, brother of Typhon, half-brother of Horus.
It tells of one-eyed Madrak the Mighty, non-theistic, non-sectarian warrior-priest; jade-eyed Vramin, former Angel of the Seventh Station, known by many as poet and mad.
It tells of The Red Witch, some say her name is Mercy and others say it's Lust. Her secret name is Isis. Her secret soul is dust.

It tells of the struggle to kill The Thing That Cries in the Night, of Wakim and Horus's search for the Prince Who Was A Thousand, of the things that went before and the things that will come after.

It is Zelazny at his very best, when he follows his demon Inspiration all the way it leads him, blending mythology of a thousand years ago with worlds thousands of years hence.