CHAPTER XXII.
1. On the day of Yu-tiv's death, Brahma said: Sing no songs; pray in silence only. Let hersoul be in quiet with Ormazd.
2. On the second day Brahma said: Pray in whispers; praise in whispers, the best, gooddeeds of the dead.
3. On the third day Brahma said: Burst forth a song of praise to Ormazd; extol the virtuesof the dead.
4. On the fourth day Brahma said: In song and in prayer bid the dead arise and go onward,upward!
5. Thus they put Yu-tiv in the ground on the fourth day; and then they went and sat inthe sacred circle and sang and prayed for her soul to go on to Nirvana (paradise). Andwhen they had finished, a light came down in the midst of the circle, and an angelin white appeared. It was Yu-tiv; the soul of Yu-tiv in the glory of Ormazd, the Creator!
6. Then spake the angel Yu-tiv, saying: Out from the head of the corporeal body the spiritis born; and angels stand around; on a spirit blanket receive they the spirit of the dead. One day, in quiet, they keep the spirit, teaching it to reconcile and understand. On thesecond day, the spirit heareth the prayers of the earth-people coming upward; and on thethird day, the spirit understandeth death and birth of spirit.
7. And on the fourth day, when ye sang: O Goddess, arise from the dead! The Fathercalleth thee from on high! Arise, O Goddess, and go thy way! Then was my spirit freefrom the earth; resting in the arms of Gods and Goddesses, who had come from on highto receive me. Thus, O my beloved, on the third day is the first resurrection; and to theholy, the second resurrection beginneth on the fifth day. After the fifth day call ye me notback again! My labor lieth yonder! I must build houses for you all. Thus Ormazd sendethme on before! If it be his will for me to return to you at times, I will return. His will aboveall; this is the greatest wisdom.
8. Whe-ish, her first-born, asked: What of the angels of the intermediate world,O mother? Then answered his angel mother, saying: They were shown to us in Ebongrove! Alas, some of them do not begin the resurrection for a thousand years!
9. Then came the angel Yu-tiv over, near Hog, her latest born, whom she loved so well. She said: Canst thou see me, my son? Hog answered: Nay, I see only a glimmering lightfaintly; I hear a voice, but it soundeth not like my mother's voice. Yet, if it be that there isa soul that liveth after death, and if of a truth, thou art the very spirit and soul of her whobrought me forth, be thou not unhappy because of my unbelief. As for myself, I amhappy because thou broughtst me forth in unbelief; neither would I of my own will be anyother way. Whether our eyes be blue or black, or whether we are tall or short, orwhether we are believers or disbelievers, even as we are created, and to fill our placein doing good unto others with all our wisdom and strength, is this not glory enough?
10. Yu-tiv said: O thou wisest of men! In the day thou art born in heaven, thou shaltnot linger long in the intermediate world, but be crowned a very God indeed! Hereendeth my labors with the earth, O ye, my beloved. An otevan waiteth by the way forme to ascend; the Gods and Goddesses are calling me! Farewell, my beloved! Farewell!
11. And now the music of heaven descended, and even whilst the mortals sang, thevery gates of heaven opened, and the angel Yu-tiv rose upward in a sea of fire!
12. But behold, the love of great Brahma was too much for him! His eyes raised upwardafter the ascending light, and his soul burst within him. He fell down and stretchedhimself on the cold earth! He, too, was dead.
13. Then burst the mighty hearts of Brahma's sons. The whole earth shook with thewail of Gods. The wind, the air above the earth, stood still, and the forest ofRoam shuddered as if the earth were bent in twain. Then wailed the sons and daughtersof Haraoyo. Though no man uttered it, yet all knew that great Brahma was dead.
CHAPTER XXIII.
1. The angel of God came in the sacred circle and stood in the midst. He said: Greeting, inthe name of Ormazd! In His name I speak before you. First, then, who of all that wasdearest to Brahma, he or she, shall arise!
2. And lo and behold, there arose every man, woman and child, more than ten thousand. The angel said: By the side of Yu-tiv shall ye, his most beloved, bury his body. On thethird day after his death, even at the hour of his death, shall ye bury him. And aroundabout the grave shall ye sit thrice a day, morning, noon and night, for one hour, singingand praying for the soul of Brahma, for two days.
3. And behold, on the evening of the second day ye shall behold the graves of bothBrahma and Yu-tiv opened, and their very bodies will come forth, and Brahma shallspeak with you face to face. The angel then disappeared.
4. And the people did as commanded; and they sat watching around the graves in a circle,at a distance of ten paces therefrom. And the brothers favored Hog above all the rest, thathe might be converted. And it came to pass, when the sun had been two hours set, theredescended into the midst of the circle a light, bright as the sun, so that the multitude heldtheir hands before their eyes; and so bright was the light that even the graves could not beseen, and the graves were burst open.
5. And in the space of a moment of time, the light was lowered, so all could look therein;and, lo and behold, Brahma and Yu-tiv, arm in arm, stood in the midst of the circle, evenwith their flesh and bones and their burial robes.
6. Brahma said: Have ye faith in the Creator; with Him are all things possible. He is theAll Master of all things. Accept ye not, forever, any God, or Lord, or Savior, or priest, orking, but Him, the everlasting All One, the Person.
7. Practicing good works unto all men; abjuring self in all things; and Ormazd will dwellwith you and in you forever.
8. Then Brahma and Yu-tiv came near Hog, that he might see clearly. Hog said: Art thoutruly Brahma, my father; and thou, too, Yu-tiv, my mother? Yu-tiv spake not, but Brahmasaid: I am thy father, even Brahma. To practice the highest light a man hath; that is allthat is required of any man.
9. Hog said: Of a truth it is my father! Of a truth it is my mother!
10. Brahma said: We are blessed! This is the first belief; to believe in the spirit survivingthe corporeal body; the second belief is to learn the All Person. After this cometh faith.
11. Hog said: Thou hast proved the first; but as to the All Person, I cannot understand.
12. Brahma said: As I and thy mother have revealed ourselves to thee, and so provenourselves, so in due season will Ormazd reveal Himself unto thee.
13. And these were the end. Brahma and Yu-tiv rose up in the sea of fire, smiling andwaving their hands in love to those beneath, higher and higher, till they disappeared in thesky.
14. Then went the people, and witnessed that the graves were open and the bodies gone. They filled up the places, and set a post inscribed: TOMB OF BRAHMA AND YU-TIV, GOD ANDGODDESS.
END OF THE HISTORY OF BRAHMA.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE FIRST BIBLE OF GUATAMA (AMERICA). --BEING OF EAWAHTAH,A MAN CHOSEN BY GOD FOR THE CHILDREN OF GUATAMA.
1. In Guatama, in the Middle Kingdom, by the sea of So-ci-a-pan, came down fromheaven, Gitchee, the Creator, the World-Maker, Manito! With silence, speaking in thesoul of things. He said: Speak, O earth! Have eyes, O earth! Have ears, O earth! BeholdMe, your Maker!
2. The earth answered him, not with words, boasting, but raised up man!
3. Man said: Here am I, O Gitchee! The Creator looked, and lo and behold, the I'hins ofGuatama stood before Him, the little people, white and yellow. Gitchee (God) said: Because thou hast answered Me in faith, O earth, thy ong-wee (talking animals) shall becalled I'hin. Thus was named the first talkers; men with mouths for words; ears for words.
4. Then Gitchee (God) called the I'hins together, and said they were good; even thehandsomest of all created creations. And He commanded them to marry, male and female,and beget heirs.
5. And they obeyed God's commands; but the dumb earth cast clouds upward, andblinded the ways of the I'hins, and they strayed away from the mounds, and came to blackdruks, which speak not; have no words; being dumb like the black mud of the earth wherethey burrowed.
6. In the darkness of the earth the I'hins mingled with the druks, and lo and behold, asecond born speaking animal (ong'wee, or Indian) stood upon the earth, tall, and red, andstrong, swift and handsome. Gitchee (God) said:
7. I blame thee not, O I'hin! I saw the darkness; saw thy straits! But never more shalt thoudwell with druks, nor with the new red-born, those with faces like new copper. Call themI'hua; for they shall be protectors over My chosen, the I'hins, forever. The I'hua shall driveaway the baugh and mieu and great serpents, and all man-slaying beasts; for I will makemighty nations out of the seed of the I'huans.
8. The first I'huan's name was O-e-du, and his wife's name was Uh-na; and they begatOwena and Dan and Shu-sa, but they had no more heirs. At a time soon after, the secondman, whose name was Ka-Ka-och and whose wife's name was Wees, begat Somma, andPan-ah, and Kac-ak, and Ku-bak, and Jessom.
9. And these were the first tribes of I'huans in the land of Guatama (after the flood), andthey dwelt together, marrying and begetting offspring, dwelling in peace. And the I'hinstaught them in all things, so they became an honor on the earth and a glory unto theCreator; but they were mixed so together that one tribe had no preference over another. So, by commandment of God, they were called the tribe of Oedukakaooh, of the middlekingdom, Waneopanganosah (Central America).
10. In the valley of Owak, by the river Ho-e-jon-wan, Gitchee (Jehovih) created anothertribe called Bak-Haw-ugh, and to the north of them, in the mountains Mein-how-an-goto-bah; and their tribes commingled, and Gitchee (God) named them, Bakhawughmeiuhowangotobah.
11. Jesson, son of Rakaooh, married Wepon, daughter of Bakhawughmeiuhowangotobah,and they begat Sto-gil-bak, and he begat Kom, and he begat See, and she marriedBan, son of the tribe Rakaooh, and Ban's first-born son's name was La-ban-a-see.
12. And Labanasee was born in su'is of the second order, and could hear the voice of theCreator, Gitchee, the Great Spirit. And the Voice remained with Labanasee during hislife-time, which was one hundred and twenty and five years, when he died. And theVoice descended to Labanasee's son, Hootlabanasee, who lived one hundred and oneyears, and he died, and the Voice descended to his son, Hatapanagooshhootlabanasee; andthence to his son after him, named Arapanseekasoodativhatapanagooshhootlabanasee.
13. Thus were represented the eighteen tribes of Gitchee's chosen amongst the I'huanswho should become everlasting heirs to the Voice.
14. And God said unto Ara: Arise and go forth; my hand will steer thee. So Ara rose upand departed by the hand of the Creator, and came to the valley of Owg, broad and sweetsmelling,full of health-giving food and air and water. And there came with Ara into Owgone thousand men, women and children; and they built a city and called it Eftspan,signifying place of beauty.
15. And these took the name of the tribe of Ara, the which name survived one thousandseven hundred and fifty years. And their people were tens of thousands.
16. After the tribe of Ara lost the Voice, there was raised up Sho-shone, of the tribes ofSto-gil-bak. And Gitchee raised His hand before Sho-shone and pointed the way, andSho-shone departed out of the country of Tabachoozehbakkankan and came to Owg, andtook to wife Hisam, daughter of Ooeguffanauha, and they begat E-a-ron-a-ki-mutz, a sonof great beauty and strength, a swift runner.
17. And the voice of Gitcheemonihtee (Son of Jehovih) came to Earonakimutz andremained with him during his natural lifetime, which was ninety years. And to his son,Fassawanhootaganganearonakimutz, and thence to his son,Monagoamyazazhufassawanhootaganganearonakimutz.
18. And Monag inhabited the regions of the plains of Yiteatuazow (Arkansas), and hispeople became mighty in cities and agriculture. For four thousand years the Voice of theAll Father remained with the regular succession of the heirs of Monag, but their namesand their cities' names became so long that no man could speak them or write them.
19. So Gitchee (Jehovih) raised up Honga, son of Ab, of the tribe of Oedu, of the land ofthe Middle Kingdom. And Honga went into the mountains of Ghiee (Rocky or EagleMountains), sloping to the east.
20. Gitchee (God) spake to Honga, saying: Thou shalt take Oebe for thy wife; out ofthy seed will I raise up a greater tribe than all other tribes; and thy first-born son shallhave thy name; and thy son's son shall be called Honga also; and thy son's son's son, andso on forever. For I am wearied with the burden of names; thy Great Creator hath spoken.
21. Then asked Honga, saying: What if I have no son, but only daughters? Or of my sonor my son's son, they cease to have a son, but only daughters?
22. Then spake Gitchee, saying: The wife's first daughter. So it came to pass, in course oftime, Honga married and begat heirs; and the Voice of the Great Spirit remained withthe tribes of Honga, and it came to pass that he who heard the Voice, who was alwaysthe chief high prophet for the tribe, was called Hoanga; but the peoples themselveswere called ong'wee, the same that hath endured to this day, and is called Indian.
23. And the generations of Honga were called, --first, Honga; second, Honga; third,Honga; and so on. And this was the beginning of the counting of time in Guatama. Neither knew any man the number of generations before the time of Honga the first.
24. And the land became full of cities, from the east to the west, and from the north tothe south, and the people dwelt in peace, tribe with tribe, the world over. Then camethe God of evil, I'tura (Ahura), sowing evil in the temples and on the altars. Yea, witha false tongue and cunning came he, before the prophets, stealing their eyes away,stealing their ears away, holding up his hand, saying: It is the Great Spirit's hand.
25. And I'tura obsessed the nations and tribes of men to worship him; infatuating themwith the stories of far-off countries, and the glory of kings and queens. And he set on foota war of plunder; brought ten thousand times ten thousand evil spirits to aid and abetmortals in war.
26. And I'tura, the God of evil, taught mortals to flatten the head, to make prophets, and,lo and behold, the land of Guatama became a land of seers and prophets and conjurers,seeking evil for sake of evil; consulting the spirits of the dead for war and for earthlyglory in blood and death.
