The two small gods of temple of the earth were were badly demage.What does say to them? why he said to them?

Is this the excerpt you are referring to?

But when he had gone half-way and reached as far as
the small temple he sat down beside the road on a hillock
of grass that was an old grave, now forgotten, and he
plucked a grass and twisted it in his fingers and he medi-
tated. Facing him were the small gods and on the surface
of his mind he noted how they stared at him and how of
old he had been afraid of them, but now he was careless,
having become prosperous and in no need of gods, so that
he scarcely saw them. Underneath he thought to himself,
over and over:

'Shall l'go back?'