Capitolo 11
with hurry in before. It was a noise likes thunder of distant grumbling or the
flutter of of the great mill English or factory; and to his/her sound every woman
on the island she threw on the earth prostrated, with his/her face in the
pouncings, and it waited reverently there up to the audible voice of the god had
once more it lowered. For any woman he/she knew how that sound was produced. Only
the adult men, began in the mysteries of the shrine when they came
adult to the ceremony of tattoo, was aware that the strange one, humming,
to hum noise was not more or less anything that the to whine of the bull-roarer.
A bull-roarer, as they know many pupils English, it is only a piece of
oblong wood, pointed to both elegant, and it assured from a leather strap to
an angle. But when it turned round the head from priestly and practiced hands,
it produces a noise of low grumbling as the wheels of a distant carriage,
gradually growing louder and more in clear way, from moment moment, finally cultivates
it is waxed in a dreadful noise or bursts in perfect ringings of
counterfeit thunder. It decreases then again once more, as gradually as him
it of rose, while more weak becoming and weaker, as thunder as it recedes, up to
the horrible one that he/she, as of supernatural bulls, it dies away in the end,
from slow degrees, in minimum and soft and imperceptible murmurs.
But when the savage feels the distant humming of the bull-roarer, to
whatever distance, he knows that the mysteries of its god are in full
you swing, and he expedites in ahead in alacrity, while leaving his/her job or his/her pleasure,
and racing, naked as him it is standing, to take his/her action in the adoration, so that not
the anger of sky should burst ahead in devouring flames to consume
him. But the women, knowing himself/herself/itself unworthy to face the they feared
presence of the tall god in its anger, dresses again wicker wildly from the stain, and,
their flinging down to the full length, with their mouths to the dust,
you patiently wait up to the voice of their divinity it is more audible.