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== The Sayings of Limpang-Tung ==
==== The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels ====
And Limpang-Tung said: "The ways of the gods are strange.
The flower groweth up and the flower fadeth away. This may
be very clever of the gods. Man groweth from his infancy,
and in a while he dieth. This may be very clever too. 
"But the gods play with a strange scheme. 
"I will send jests into the world and a little mirth.
And while Death seems to thee as far away as the purple rim
of hills, or sorrow as far off as rain in the blue days of
summer, then pray to Limpang-Tung. But when thou growest
old, or ere thou diest pray not to Limpang-Tung, for thou
becomest part of a scheme that he doth not understand. 
"Go out into the starry night, and Limpang-Tung will
dance with thee who danced ever since the gods were young,
the god of mirth and of melodious minstrels. Or offer up a
jest to Limpang-Tung; *only* pray not in thy sorrow to
Limpang-Tung, for he saith of sorrow: `It may be very clever
of the gods, but he doth not understand.'" 
And Limpang-Tung said: "I am lesser than the gods; pray,
therefore, to the small gods and not to Limpang-Tung. 
"Natheless between Pegana and the Earth flutter ten
thousand prayers that beat their wings against the face of
Death, and never for one of them hath the hand of the
Striker been stayed, nor yet have tarried the feet of the
Relentless One. 
"Utter thy prayer! It may accomplish where failed ten
thousand. 
"Limpang-Tung is lesser than the gods, and doth not
understand." 
And Limpang-Tung said: "Lest men grow weary down on the
great Worlds through gazing always at a changeless sky I
will paint my pictures in the sky. And I will paint them
twice in every day for so long as days shall be. Once as
the day ariseth out of the homes of dawn will I paint upon
the Blue, that men may see and rejoice; and ere day falleth
under into the night will I paint upon the Blue again, lest
men be sad." 
"It is a little," said Limpang-Tung, "it is a little even
for a god to give some pleasure to men upon the Worlds."
And Limpang-Tung hath sworn that the pictures that he paints
shall never be the same for so long as the days shall be,
and this he hath sworn by the oath of the gods upon Pegana
that the gods may never break, laying his hand upon the
shoulder of each of the gods and swearing by the light
behind Their eyes. 
Limpang-Tung hath lured a melody out of the stream and
stolen its anthem from the forest; for him the wind hath
cried in lonely places and ocean sung its dirges. 
There is music for Limpang-Tung in the sounds of the
moving of grass and in the voices of the people that lament
or in the cry of them that rejoice. 
In an inner mountain land where none hath come he hath
carved his organ pipes out of the mountains, and there when
the winds, his servants, come in from all the world he
maketh the melody of Limpang-Tung. But the song, arising at
night, goeth forth like a river, winding through all the
world, and there amid the peoples of earth one heareth, and
straightaway all that hath voice to sing crieth aloud in
music to his soul. 
Or sometimes walking through the dusk with steps unheard
by men, in a form unseen by the people, Limpang-Tung goeth
abroad, and, standing behind the minstrels in cities of
song, waveth his hands above them to and fro, and the
minstrels bend to their work, and the voice of the music
ariseth; and mirth and melody abound in that city of song,
and no one seeth Limpang-Tung as he standeth behind the
minstrels. 
But through the mists towards morning, in the dark when
the minstrels sleep and mirth and melody have sunk to rest,
Limpang-Tung goeth back again to his mountain land.
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 ==== The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels ====