Part I. Anthropogenesis.
Reading edition
Twelve Stanzas From the “Book Of Dzyan,”27
With Commentaries.
[pg 014]
In primeval times, a maiden,
Beauteous Daughter of the Ether,
Passed for ages her existence
In the great expanse of Heaven.
Seven hundred years she wandered,
Seven hundred years she laboured,
Ere her first-born was delivered.
Ere a beauteous duck descending,
Hastens toward the water-mother,
Lightly on the knee she settles,
Finds a nesting-place befitting,
Where to lay her eggs in safety.
Lays her eggs within, at pleasure,
Six, the golden eggs she lays there,
Then a Seventh, an egg of iron.
Kalevala (Crawford).
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