66 GEORGE D-S-DUNBAR ON 



the eye of the sun and put it out. And the sun became very angry and went and hid 

 himself under the earth. The version given in Rotung was that once upon a time 

 there were two suns, brothers, each taking it in turn to shine for twelve hours. So it 

 was day all the time. But a frog shot one of the suns with an arrow and killed the 

 fire that was in it, so now it has no warmth, but as the moon it shines at night. 

 And the splinters made by the arrow became stars. And now in revenge the two suns 

 shoot their arrows down upon the earth and bring death to the children of men [sun 

 stroke and moon stroke]. But the frog, to escape from the wrath of the sun hides 

 in the water. 



The Pasi legend appears to be that there were two suns, and a god, to lessen the 



scorching heat, took his bow and shot an arrow at one of 



How the Moon became cold. ., , 1 .„ , . . , •, i 1 • 1 • 1 . . j • - 



them, and killed it. And so its blazing light turned into 

 the pale fire of the moon. 



When the sun went and hid under the earth the land was plunged into darkness 



and a great fear fell upon all and men went to ask the 



How Death came. . __, . 1 -, ■. . -, 



sun to appear again. But the sun was angry and hid 

 below the earth. Now there was a bird with a long tail perching on the sun as he 

 lay sulking just below the horizon, and the bird talked to the men. When the sun 

 heard the talking he called out, ' ' Who do I hear talking ?' ' and, out of curiosity, rose 

 to look. And he saw the men who had come to petition him sitting on the ground, 

 and they implored him to return and shed his light over the world. After a little 

 while the sun spoke and said, " If you will give me a daughter of the gods to eat, 

 then I will return and lighten the earth." The men agreed and went back to their 

 homes, but the bat followed them and said, " It is a daughter of men that the sun 

 wants, not a daughter of the gods." So the men took one of their daughters and 

 brought her to the sun as a sacrifice ; and he devoured her and arose in his strength 

 to give light and warmth to the world. But from that day death has come into the 

 world to destroy the children of men ; for before that they, like the gods , were im- 

 mortal. 



Now in those days, when gods and men lived together, a quarrel arose for the 



possession of the rich plain country. The gods said it 

 gods^ndmet 11 ° f Earth ^^ belonged to them, but this the men disputed. At last it 



was agreed that the decision should rest on the proof of a 

 sign ; the rich country should belong to whoever could cook a stone. So mortals and 

 immortals took stones and earth in their hands. First of all the gods tried to cook 

 the stones, but fierce though they made the fire the stones remained stones still. But 

 the men cheated the gods and obtained the sign by a trick, for they hid an egg amidst 

 the earth and stones ; and this they roasted and showed to the gods. So the gods 

 went away from the pleasant smiling lands of the plains to dwell for ever in the high 

 hills and deep forests of the uplands. 



It is told that when gods and men lived no longer together, but dwelt the immor- 

 «._... , „ .,. tals on the high hills and men in the plain below, that a 



The Origin of Sacrifice. ° r ' 



mortal was seized by the gods and held by them a pris- 



