We hang upon his favor." Tu-Kila-Kila started back, laughed, and showed his pearly white teeth.
They were beautiful and regular, like the teeth of a tiger, a strong young tiger.

"But I need more sacrifices than all the other gods," he went on, melodiously, like one who plays with consummate skill upon some difficult instrument.

"I am greedy; I am thirsty; I am a hungry god.

You must not stint me.

I claim more human victims than all the other gods beside.