lajs.] ^^y [I,csl<-y. 



AN'hen the earth h:ul grown liright with a new da}', the Sun 

 God rose, and they saw each otlier ; and the younger said to the 

 elder brother: Why pursuest thou, to kill me, unrighteously ? 

 Nearest thou not my mouth say : I am tndy th}^ younger brother, 

 and thou wast as a lather to me, and thy wife as a mother. Lo, 

 did it not happen, that when thou sentest me to bring seed corn, 

 thy wife said to me: Come, let us celebrate a quiet hour? Xow 

 see, she has reversed it all. And he caused him to know -what 

 had occurred between him and his wife. And he swore b}' the 

 Sun God, saving: If it be th}^ intention to kill me, then stick 

 thine axe in the hole of th}'- girdle(?) And he drew foi'th a 

 sharp knife and cut off a member of his bod}' and threw it into 

 the water, and the fishes ate it. 



Then sank he swooning and lifeless : but the soiiJ of his elder 

 brother was sorely troubled. And there he stood and wept and 

 mourned, and could not cross over to his younger brother for 

 the crocodiles. And his 3'ounger brother called to him, saying: 

 TjO, thou thougbtest evil, and hadst not good in mind therefor ; 

 Yet will I inform thee of one thing that thou must do. Go 

 home and tend thy kine. for I will not abide where thou abidest, 

 but will go to the Cedar Mountain. This must thou do when 

 thou comest to look about thee for me. Know that my soul and 

 I must part; I shall la}' it in the topmost cedar flower; and 

 when the cedar shall be felled, it shall fall to the earth. If thou 

 comest to seek it, tarry seven years seeking it, and if thy soul 

 can endure so long then thou shalt find it. Then lay it in a vessel 

 with cold water; so will I live again, and will answer all ques- 

 tions, to make thee know what further shall befall me. Let there 

 be in thy hand also a flask of barley water, and pitch it with 

 pitch, and delay not about it, that thou mayst have it by thee. 



And so he went to the Cedar Mountain, and his elder brother 

 gat him home, laying his hand upon his bead, and scattering dust 

 thereon. And wlien he entered his house, he slew his wife, and 

 cast her to the dogs, and sat himself down to mourn for his 

 younger brother. 



Many days afterwards his younger brother found himself upon 

 the Cedar Mountain, and no man was with him, and he spent the 

 day in hunting the beasts of the earth; and evening came, and 

 he stretched himself beneath the cedar tree in the flowertop of 

 which his soul lay. 



