In fact he had many other and much longer names, but as this was the shortest ad most convenient of them, they adopted it.
It chanced that Leonard was standing by Soa, and when this priest entered, whom she now saw face to face for the first time, he noticed that she started, trembled, and then drew back into the shadow of the throne.
"Some friend of the old lady's youth," thought Leonard to himself.

"I hope he won't recognise her, that is all." Nam bent himself in adoration before the gods, then began an address, the substance of which Juanna translated from time to time.

Bitterly did he grieve, he said, that such an insult had been offered to the Snake as the presenting to him among his food of the red stone, known as the Blood of Aca.

That man who had done this folly was doomed to die, if, indeed, he were not already dead.

Well could they understand that, the Mother and Snake having become reconciled, the proffering to Jal of that which reminded him of the sin of long ago was a wickedness that might bring a curse upon the land.