Yet soon again the world rumbled, and again they led the way into a country and place called Tám&eeuml;lan K'yaíyawan (Where tree boles stand in the middle of the waters). There the people lived for a long time, saying (poor people!) "This is the Middle!" Therefore they built homes. At times they met people who had gone before, in this way learning much of ways in war, for in the fierceness that had entered their hearts with fear, they deemed it not well, neither did they like to look upon strangers peacefully. And many strange things also were learned and happened there, that are told in other speeches of the ancient talk.

   Having fought and grown strong, see! when at last the earth groaned and the conches sounded warning, and the Twins asked them to travel forward, they murmured much, and many turned headstrong and were left to perish miserably in their own houses as rats do in falling trees, or flies in forbidden food!





©1996, Richard Hooker

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