:24:01
...the stag, fowl, puma, and jaguar...
:24:06
...the snake, rattle-snake, and viper,
the wards of the cr eepers.
:24:14
And the child-bear er and the
begetter of the sons spake...
:24:19
''Shall it be all void...
:24:21
...shall it be all still under
the tr ees and cr eepers?
:24:27
Would not it be wise now...
:24:30
...to have somebody watch
over them?'' spake they...
:24:34
... bethinking themselves and taking
council the one with the other.
:24:38
At once the stag and
the fowl wer e shaped...
:24:42
...and now they showed the stag
and the fowl their habitation...
:24:47
''Thou, stag, shalt sleep near the
course of the river, in the gorges...
:24:51
... her e thou shalt dwell,
betwixt grass-bushels and herbs.
:24:56
ln the for ests shalt thou multiply!
:24:59
Let it be so !'' they said unto them.
:25:16
Then the small birds and the
big birds r eceived their abode...
:25:22
''Y e birds of the tr ee-tops
and the cr eepers...
:25:27
... may ye dwell and nest her e !
:25:30
Her e may ye br eed and multiply
on the branches of the tr ees...
:25:34
...and on the tendrils and cr eepers.''
:25:38
So it was told to
the stags and the fowl.
:25:42
Thus was the earth
haunted by them...
:25:45
...and each was given his bed
and his r esting place.
:25:50
ln this manner, the child-bear er
and begetter of sons...
:25:55
...gave the beasts of the earth
their habitation...
:25:59
...thus all the stags and
fowl became alive.