le horses are tethered; while, perhaps, the Maidens
sit feasting in a dell, grey with moonbeams and ghostly
flowers. Even the sullen Mullabruk learns somehow of their
presence, and turns aside on his fours from the silvery
mist of their glades and green alleys, just as in the same
wise a cold air seems to curdle his skin when some haunting
N[=o][=o]ma passes by. All the inward shadows of the
creatures of Munza-mulgar are N[=o][=o]manossi's; all their
phantoms, spirits, or Meermuts are Tishnar's. And so there
is a never-ending changeableness and strife in their short
lives. The leopard (or Roses, as they call her, for the
beauty of her clear black spots) is Meermut to her cubs,
N[=o][=o]ma to the dodging Skeetoes she lies in wait for,
stretched along a bough. Her beauty is Tishnar's; the
savagery of her claws is N[=o][=o]manossi's. So Munza's
children are dark or bright, lovely or estranging,
according as Meermut or N[=o][=o]ma prevails in their
natures. And thus, too, they choose the habitation of their
bodies. Yet because dark is but day gone, and cruelty
unkindness, therefore even the heart-shattering
N[=o][=o]manossi, even Immanala herself, is only absent
Tishnar. But there, as everyone can see, I am only
chattering about what I cannot understand.

One of the first things that Nod remembered was Glint's tumbling from
the great Ukka-tree, which he had climbed at ripening-time, bough up to
bough from the bottom, cracking shells and eating all the way, until,
forgetting how heavy he had become, he swung his fat body on to a
slender and withered branch, and fell all a-topple from top to bottom on
to the back of his thick skull. Beneath this same dark-leaved tree
Seelem buried his servant, together with a pot of subbub, seven loaves
or cakes, and a long stick of Ummuz-cane. But Mutta-matutta after his
death would never touch an Ukka-nut again.

Seelem taught his sons how to make fire, what nuts and roots and fruits
and grasses were wholesome for eating; what herbs and bark and pith for
physic; what reeds and barks for cloth. He taught them how to take honey
without being stung; how to count; how to find their way by the chief
and brightest among the stars; to cut cudgels, to build leaf-huts and
huddles against heat or rain. He taught them, too, th