They gave her food and, seeing that she was fair, brought her back to their country, where one of them married her.

But of her own land she uttered only lying words to them because she feared that if she told the truth the gods who guard its secrets would be avenged on her, though now when she was near to death she dreaded them no more, since even the Kendah gods cannot swim through the waters of death.

That is all she said about her journey because she had forgotten the rest." "Bother her journey, Hans.

What did she say about her god and the Kendah people ?" "This, Baas: that the Kendah have not one god but two, and not one ruler but two.

They have a good god who is a child-fetish" (here I started) "that speaks through the mouth of an oracle who is always a woman.