Capitolo 14
an end and it immediately dies; all the rivers would immediately stop to race."
His/her worshippers arched down in acquiescence with faces of awestruck. "It is
true", they responded, in the same slow you sing-song as before of assent.
"You-Kila-Kila it is the greatest of of the. We owe to him everything. We hang
on his/her favor."
You-Kila-Kila it started again, laughed, and it showed his/her pearly white teeth.
They was good-looking and regular, as the teeth of a tiger, a strong
young tiger. "But I have more need sacrifices that the others of the", him
succession, melodiously, as one with that it plays you complete the ability on some
I orchestrate difficult. "I am avid; I am thirsty; I am a hungry god. You
it doesn't have to hold me to small stick. I say victims more human than all the others of the
close to. If you want Your crops to grow, and Your rivers to race, the
fields for produrrLa play of hazard and the maritime fish--this is that al which I ask me: give me
victims, victims! That is our pact. You-Kila-Kila he/she calls her."
The men once more they arched down and they humbly repeated, "you will have victims
as You desire, great god; only I/you/he/she give us potato and taro and bread-fruit, and
you don't provoke Your bright light, the sun, to grow the dark in sky on us."
"You cuts, You-Kila-Kila he/she cried, in a peremptory voice, beating his
hands three times. "I am being thirsty for blood. I want Your voluntary offer."
As he spoke, every man, as from a fixed ritual, taken by a small skin
portfolio to his/her side an acute bow of coral-stone, and, drawing him/it
intentionally through his/her breast in a wound redhead and deep, it provoked the blood to
flows out freely on his/her chest and belt of long grass. Then, having
done so, they never strove him for a moment to stagnate the wound, but he/she left
the red fall of drops how they is able above to the dust to their feet, without
also seeming to be aware to the whole fact that they was flowing.
You-Kila-Kila once more smiled, a satisfied smile of itself and horrible of