Note 117 — Chapter XVII

Lisa-ji (lisa, or sun-sky) is the east, because the sun comes out of it. Mau-ji is the west, because the moon is supposed to begin there. Gbwe-ji (bush sky—also a fetish, which will be described) is the north, under which lies the interior forest. Hu-men (in the sea) is the south, for evident reasons. A small oriole, which soars like a sky-lark, and strikes its wing-feathers together with a noise like the locusts’ flight, is called Avo-kan ’gbe-khe—the bird that weaves cloth (for Mau).