The Hasty-Pudding; a Poem, in Three Cantos. Written At Chamrery [!], in Savoy During January 1793
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As fountains and cool springs, which furnished them with drink ; rivers, that watered their pastures ; the earth, which they called their mother, because it yielded them food ; the air, be- cause it gave them breath and life ; and fire, because it warmed them, and cooked their food. Some, also, made choice of sheep, cattle, or corn, and everything around them, that served most for nourishment, as a god^ and worthy of divine honour. The inhabitants near the coast, made_ the sea their god, the na...me of which, interpreted in their language, signifies the " Mother Sea." The whale they deified on account of its pro- INDIAN CJRiV. 27 digioiis size. In the Province of Puerto Viejo, they had a high veneration for the emerald ; and near the Cordillera, they worshipped that mountain for its stu- pendous height. The sacrifices which they made to these deities were often as barbarous as the gods were senseless ; for, besides beasts, fruits, and corn, they sacrificed and devoured alive, men and women of all ages, whom they had taken in war.
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