Part I. Anthropogenesis

Twelve Stanzas From the “Book Of Dzyan,”

With Commentaries.

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In primeval times, a maiden,

Beauteous Daughter of the Ether,

Passed for ages her existence

In the great expanse of Heaven.

Seven hundred years she wandered,

Seven hundred years she laboured,

Ere her first-born was delivered.

Ere a beauteous duck descending,

Hastens toward the water-mother,

Lightly on the knee she settles,

Finds a nesting-place befitting,

Where to lay her eggs in safety.

Lays her eggs within, at pleasure,

Six, the golden eggs she lays there,

Then a Seventh, an egg of iron.

Kalevala (Crawford).

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