But when they all had gone he gave leave to the bird to be a bird and
to go about the sky.

And further there came a man into that valley who said:

"Yarni Zai, thou hast made animals into thy world. O Yarni Zai, ordain
that there be men."

So Yarni Zai made men.

Then was there in the world Yarni Zai, and two strange gods that
brought the greenness and the growing and the whiteness and the
stillness, and animals and men.

And the god of the greenness pursued the god of the whiteness, and the
god of the whiteness pursued the god of the greenness, and men pursued
animals, and animals pursued men. But Yarni Zai sat still against his
mountain with his right hand uplifted. But the men of Yarnith say that
when the arm of Yarni Zai shall cease to be uplifted the world shall be
flung behind him, as a man's cloak is flung away. And Yarni Zai, no
longer clad with the world, shall go back into the emptiness beneath
the Dome among the stars, as a diver seeking pearls goes down from the
islands.

It is writ in Yarnith's histories by scribes of old that there passed a
year over the valley of Yarnith that bore not with it any rain; and the
Famine from the wastes beyond, finding that it was dry and pleasant in
Yarnith, crept over the mountains and down their slopes and sunned
himself at the edge of Yarnith's fields.