| 1 | Life is change. Change is life. |
| 2 | All yields but change. |
| 3 | There is no death, only change of place and form. |
| 4 | This be the law of the First Age of Spirit. |
| 5 | The Major Cycle of Seasons be the Major Cycle of Change; |
| 6 | The Cycle of Seasons since the coming of Second Law, |
| 7 | More than 2,500 generations ago; |
| 8 | To the Cycle of Seasons and the coming of Third Law. |
| 9 | From the time giant people with horns of different land did come, |
| 10 | And save the people through the Second Law; |
| 11 | To the time of the Great Unity of People, |
| 12 | And the coming of Third Law and remembrance of Yapa. |
| 13 | In the beginning upon the Second Great Season of Ice and Cold, |
| 14 | That started 2,526 generations ago; |
| 15 | When sea dropped by more than the height of three men than it is today; |
| 16 | Great mountains of ice returned to the south; |
| 17 | The rivers and lakes were frozen; |
| 18 | The great animals of the south and east froze to death or died of hunger. |
| 19 | Then came the warming from 947 generations ago, |
| 20 | When the ice and snow began to melt and the animals grew in number; |
| 21 | Until the great cooling and darkness, |
| 22 | That covered the whole land and the return of the cold, |
| 23 | From 731 generations to 715 generations ago, |
| 24 | When great fire struck the lands far away to the north, |
| 25 | Which cause many animals to die. |
| 26 | A second great cooling came from 678 generations to 610 generations ago, |
| 27 | When a rain of fire did land upon country and many lands. |
| 28 | The cycle of seasons be the change position of the sun and heavens, |
| 29 | 610 generations ago, when the land on the coast became much more fertile. |
| 30 | The cycle of seasons be the eruptions and fire 226 generations ago, |
| 31 | That covered the south and east in ash and darkness. |
| 32 | The cycle of seasons the cycles of warming and cooling, |
| 33 | Great rains and great drought: |
| 34 | The cooling from 168 generations to 131 generations ago; |
| 35 | The warming from 131 generations to 78 generations ago. |
| 36 | The great drought and darkness from 115 generations to 100 generations ago, |
| 37 | Upon the eruptions of the islands to the East; |
| 38 | The cooling from 78 generations to 58 generations ago; |
| 39 | The warming from 58 generations to 37 generations ago; |
| 40 | The cooling and drought from 37 generations to 8 generations ago. |
| 41 | Cycle of seasons be the year without summer 10 generations ago, |
| 42 | And the great wave that struck the coast 7 generations ago, |
| 43 | Upon the great volcano island exploding to the north. |
| 44 | Cycle of seasons be the great warming for 8 generations, |
| 45 | The desert in bloom, with water and fish and birds; |
| 46 | The floods and storms increasing, |
| 47 | And the major shift in the heavens and the land yet to come, |
| 48 | Within a few short seasons. |
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