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The Delight Makers

CHAPTER VI
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Below it was the symbol of the moon's white disk, encircled by a black and red ring, and provided also with square eyes and mouth.

Still lower were painted two crosses, a red one and a white one, both with black border.
Above the sun there appeared a form intended to be human, painted in very gaudy colours.

This was P[=a]yatyama, the sun-father.

On each side of him rose a terraced pyramid painted green, and from the top of one of these pyramids to that of the other there spanned or stretched a tri-coloured arch, red, yellow, and blue, over the sun-father's head.

On each side of sun and moon was the crudely executed picture of an animal,--the one on the right, being intended for a bear, painted green; the one on the left, for a panther, painted red.


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