Capitolo 16
in his/her heart to everybody, you/he/she could not be open in his/her voice or his
characteristics. He arched his/her head with apparent satisfaction, and he/she answered
humbly, what says You-Kila-Kila it has to have need is done. This is a great honor.
He is a mighty god. Us poor men have to respect him/it. We am proud to be taken
on and it did one with divinity."
You-Kila-Kila it raised in his/her hand a great ax of stone of some smoothed green
material, resembling to from near it tires that disposition on a block from the door, and
tried his/her edge with his/her finger, in a distracted way. "Tie him/it!" him
says, quietly, addressing round to his/her votaries. And the men, every happy to
its his/her own fate has escaped, limits gladly their comrade with green ropes
of fiber of plantain.
"Crown him with flowers!" It said You-Kila-Kila; and a companion female,
acquitted by the terror of the bull-roarer from the command of the god, it brought
directed a great garland of hibiscus of crimson that her the flung around the
the neck of victim and shoulders.
"Placed his/her head on the sacred block of stone of our fathers", You-Kila-Kila
succession, in an easy tone of command, waving gracefully his/her hand. And the
men, while moving himself/herself/itself in before, it placed their comrade, descending face, on an enormous apartment
block of greenstone smoothed in front of which it placed as an altar the
you systematize with the skeletons that mildew.
"It is well", You-Kila-Kila once more it murmured, mean to tall voice. "You have
I date me the voluntary offer. Now for the transgression! Where the is
woman that dared to draw near too nearby the temple-house of the divine one
You-Kila-Kila? Introduce the criminal!"
The men divided, and it made down a passage them middle. Then one of them, a
minister of the shrine of the man-god, conducted by the hand every trembling and
tightening himself/herself/itself with supernatural terror in every muscle, a well-formed young
girl of eighteen or winds. Its naked bronze edges were well done and
flexible; but its eyes were inflated and red with torn wounds and its face