Creation of the Sun and the Moon by B. Traven

Author:B. Traven [Traven, B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chicovaneg climbed higher and higher, and his shield became brighter and brighter with every year, glowing so brilliantly that now men on earth could see that a new Sun was being kindled. How they rejoiced! In all their festivities they praised the coming of the new Sun in music and songs and dances.

The people on earth were able to see that Chicovaneg’s journey had still to take him among dangerous comets. Each time he triumphed they were filled with joy. When it seemed that the distance from one star to another might be too great, they were filled with terror. And they went up to the highest mountains to build fires to signal to Chicovaneg their faith in him, their hope, and their desire to help light his way so he would not fail.

These distant earth fires gave Chicovaneg new strength and courage. For the forces of the evil gods battled him ceaselessly, hurling their spears and arrows and battle-axes and ever seeking to destroy him. But from star to star his shield glowed more brilliantly. And now when his enemies came too close, Chicovaneg held the shield before their faces and blinded them with its starry luster.

Protected by his bright shield, Chicovaneg loosed arrows and his spear with a sure hand. His spear he had fastened to a glistening lasso and the arrows to strong light tendons, so that he could always pull them back to him to use them again and again. And thus he was never without weapons, no matter on which star he stood.

Enraged by the courage and cleverness of Chicovaneg, the evil gods took revenge on the people of the earth. They sent over the lands sudden hurricanes which swept away huts and destroyed towns and ruined fields. They sent swarms of locusts, also hordes of rats over the earth and unloosed heavy floods. Out of mountains, fiery streams of molten rocks poured forth, and poisonous smoke filled the air. And so in this way did the powers of evil hope to destroy all life on earth before a new Sun would arise in the sky.

Then they hurled flaming rockets at Chicovaneg, so many indeed that to this very day, thousands of these fiery spears are still hurtling through the skies, now and then visible at night.

But in spite of all that and never seriously afraid of being hit by those fiery missiles, Chicovaneg climbed higher and higher, and his shield became brighter and brighter.

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