CDRTIN 

 HEWITT. 



] LEGENDS 635 



" So now, too, this assembly of people, such as it is, is giving 

 thanks this day. He willed that there shall be brakes of great herbs 

 on which shall grow sunflowers continually in their season, and that 

 these shall serve to give pleasure and contentment to mankind dwell- 

 ing on the earth. 



" So now. too, this assembly of people, such as it is. is giving 

 thanks this day. He willed, ' I shall place a duty on certain persons 

 to care for and watch over the earth, and they shall cause rain to 

 fall habitually, and the rain shall prosper all the things that grow 

 out of the earth, and these persons shall habitually approach from 

 the west, and people will call them Our Grandsires, whose voices are 

 heard from place to place — the Thunderers.' 



" So now, too, this assembly of people, such as it is, is giving 

 thanks this day. He willed that there shall ever be a Sky, on which 

 there shall ever appear a Light Orb which will go about from place 

 to place as day succeeds day, and people shall call this orb of light 

 the Suji. So, too, let us be thankful that we see each day that the 

 light orb moves on in its course. 



" So now, too, this assembly of people, such as it is, is giving thanks 

 this day. He willed that there shall be darkness by periods of a 

 certain length, and that in the sky there shall ever appear a Light 

 Orb which shall ever go f i"om place to place, and which human beings 

 will call the Nocturnal Orb of Light — the Moon. So, too, let us be 

 thankful because night after night we see this orb of light holding 

 to its course, and know that our Creator so decreed it. 



"So now, too, this assembly of people, such as it is, is giving thanks 

 this day. He willed that there shall ever be a Sky, and that in it 

 there shall be Stars fixed from jilace to place. So, too, let us be 

 thankful, because we see these stars night after night, just as our 

 Creator has decreed that it shall be. 



" So now, too, this assembly of people, such as it is, is giving thanks 

 this day. He willed that there shall be Persons who shall guard 

 mankind from harm by day and by night. So, too, let us be thankful 

 that these Four Persons protect us daily and nightly. 



" So now, too, this assembly of peojile, such as it is, is giving thanks. 

 He willed that just and righteous acts shall be the means of making 

 us true men and women. So, too, let us be thankful because his 

 words are being carried out on earth. 



" So now, too, this assembly of people, such as it is, is giving thanks 

 this day. He willed that in thanksgiving addresses the celebrant 

 must offer thanks to all things, beginning with these on earth and 

 ending with the person of the Master of Life. So. too, let us be 

 thankful that we have now rendered to our Maker our thanks for 

 the bounties of life. 



