[The Moon Pool by A. Merritt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Moon Pool CHAPTER XXIX 10/10
Two kings they had, each with his council and his court.
One was high priest to the moon and the other high priest to the sun. "The mass of this people were black-haired, but the sun king and his nobles were ruddy with hair like mine; and the moon king and his followers were like Yolara--or Lugur.
And this, the Three say, Goodwin, came about because for time upon time the law had been that whenever a ruddy-haired or ashen-tressed child was born of the black-haired it became dedicated at once to either sun god or moon god, later wedding and bearing children only to their own kind.
Until at last from the black-haired came no more of the light-locked ones, but the ruddy ones, being stronger, still arose from them." [1] Professor Svante August Arrhenius, in his _Worlds in the Making_--the conception that life is universally diffused, constantly emitted from all habitable worlds in the form of spores which traverse space for years and ages, the majority being ultimately destroyed by the heat of some blazing star, but some few finding a resting-place on globes which have reached the habitable stage .-- W.
T.G..
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