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22. Sido's Meeting with Sagaru and llteir Marriage. One night Si'do heard the drums 

 from lâsa and asked his father to make him a drum. He went there by means of his navel-cord ; 

 it had been kept from his birth and extended itseif tili it reached läsa. There was a beautiful 

 girl, Sagäru, and Si'do's drum called out her name, „Sagaru, Sagaru!" Her nose-stick feil under- 

 neath the house, and she and Si'do went out and met there and had connection with each other. 

 Some làsa men eut off Si'do's navel-cord, thus preventing him from returning home by it. He made 

 himself small, and Sagâru carried him away in a mat. Her parents followed after them wanting 

 to fight, but an agreement was made. 



23. Sagaru and the Big Fish. Sagaru leaves Sido. The lâsa people bailed out the 

 water in the creek while catching fish. Sagäru sat down in the water, trying to corner a certain 

 fish, and it passed into her vulva. It was puUed out and cooked. Sido only left a small pièce 

 of the fish for Sagäru. There was a bone inside, an she hurt her teeth when eating. She was 

 angry, and as Sido neglected har in the night she left him and went away. 



24. Sido finds Sagaru in the Nabea Tree, but she ist carried aivay to Meuri. Sagäru 

 changed her feet into those of various animais in order to mislead Sido who followed her tracks. 

 She sat down on a ndbea tree to rest, and the tree reared itseif up, lifting her high into the air. 

 Sido found the place, and Sagäru asked him to warm his stone a.xe in the fire before attempting 

 to eut down the tree, and thereby the axe was spoilt. He summoned the winds, and they felled 

 the tree, but Sagäru was hurled to the man Méuri in Dibiri. — The ndbea had been set up by 

 Méuri in Sagäru's way. It was at the request of the tree that Sagäru caused Sido to ruin his 

 stone axe. — Sido had to make a fish-trap for a certain man before the latter showed him the 

 way Sagäru had gone. 



25. Sido folloivs Sagaru to Dibiri and is killed by Meuri. Sido made some small birds 

 which found out for him where Sagäru was. He floated to Méuri's place inside the trunk of a 

 tree. Sagäru found him, and they met hut were betrayed by a man who had seen them. Méuri 

 came to fight Sido, and the latter was killed. Sagäru went on her way to läsa with Si'do's body. 

 — The fight between Sido and Méuri was the first that had ever happened. 



26 — 27. Begimiing of the Wanderings of Sido's Spirit. Si'do's spirit went homeward 

 first, and his body was brought after him in a canoe. Certain animais and plants tried to block 

 his way in order to compel him to return to life. — Si'do's spirit asked various people to teil 

 Sagäru and her companions in the canoe to throw away his dead body, but she did not obey. 

 The reason why the body should be thrown away was that it would bring death to the people, 

 as no one had died before. 



28—33. Sido's Spirit beconies a Mischievous Character. Sîdo's spirit turned into a crab 

 which was found b}' a vvoman. Resuming his human shape Sido sent her husband away and 

 then outraged her. The husband caused the trees to close över Sido's path, so that he could not 

 get through. — He also put „poison" into Si'do's footprints. — Si'do outraged some other women 

 in a similar way. — He molested a baby girl and caused vermin to come into the hair of some 

 boys. — At UÜ0 some boys caused Si'do's spirit to fall into the creek. 



34—35. Sido's Spirit and his Twin Mothers. Sido in the shape of a shell-fish was 

 swallowed by one of the twin sisters Köumo and Âhau who were grown together back to back. 

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