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Chant Of Five Suns / Birth Of The Five-Eyed Sun
First from Great Dark Sky came Half-Sun
Rivalry between chosen, limping Day and Night,
Until the war-club struck the heavens, cast
Sun-fire to blackness and void, to the mouth
Of the Jaguar gave the flesh of All Men.
Then the Second came upon the Magician,
Made men climb and howl as the limbed mischief of trees,
When the Feathered Serpent in his squall of shame blew the monkeys away.
Third was the Lord Of Rain, no tears forsaken
For his stolen Wife Of Flowers,
Grief of drought and beseeching heard no answer
Until anger overflowed to deluge of sky-fire, and
Only ashes remained.
Fourth the loving Jade Lady Of Rivers, whose kindness brought the Flood
And changed Men to fishes, found no praise
Among the bones of those unmade.
Now is the age of the Fifth, jealous demons of moon and stars,
By the scent of blood in heaven, do we deter
The shaken earth and the swallowed Sun.
