those especially precious to him were the private dreams of rememberers , whose job was to keep fastidious records of the past ; thanks to them , wixelor had learnt all about the mythical prehistory of the ever-shifting sphere and of the other two worlds that had been moulded of its original substance ( lurien , a world of fearful simpletons , and the barbaric feerien ) , and , most importantly , about anything in the universes long past that might point to where they eyes of the gods had been hidden .