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_ The dragon looked on them,—the dragon beguiled the woman and 
Tha-nai. 
How is this said to have happened ? 
The great dragon succeeded in deceiving—deceiving unto death. 
How do they say it was done? 
A yellow fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the children of God ; 
A white fruit took the great dragon, and gave to the daughter and 
son of God. 
They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned his face 
from them. 
They transgressed the commands of God, and God turned away 
from them. 
They kept not all the words of God—were deceived, deceived unto 
sickness ; 
They kept not all the law of God—were deceived, deceived unto 
death.” 
Other traditions may be found in the appendix to a little book pub- 
lished by the London Religious Tract Society called “ The Karen 
Apostle.” 
The names Tha-nai, and H-w in the above verses are sufficiently 
near the Biblical names of Adam and Kve to show a common origin ; 
while they are so diverse from any mode of rendering those names 
adopted by either Roman Catholic or Protestant Missionaries as to 
prove they have not been derived from modern names. 
The scriptural traditions have been found principally among the 
Sgaus, and as we leave the Sgau tribes, we meet with others that 
seem to me to have had a Hindu origin. Such are some of the trad1- 
tions among the Red Karens. They say: ‘“‘ Anciently God created 
the heavens and the earth, and he formed two persons. One was 
called ‘the female Tha-lu,’ and the other ‘the male Tha-lu.’ God 
placed these two persons to superintend the whole world. And God 
created trees, and animals of every kind, and he wrote their names in 
a golden book, and gave it to the two persons whom he created, and 
according to the names found in the book, they called every thing. 
God created all things by his word and his power. He created every 
thing with a body, with seed, and with fruit.” Thus far the tradition 
preserves a Biblical character, but they go on to say: ‘God did not 
