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This harpoon had a head of iron and was fixed on a spear, with a long rope tied to the head, so that when it was thrust into the whale he was fastened to the boat that pursued him through the water. There was no weapon like it on the island, and it was much admired. "Honi fought with us when our tribe, the Papuaei, went to war with the Tiu of Taaoa.
He hooked him through the middle, and before he could be saved, a half dozen of the Tiu men pulled on the rope and dragged him over the line to be killed and eaten. "Two more of our tribe Honi snared with this devilish spear, and it was not so much death as being pulled over to them and roasted that galled us.
On the "Stele of Palermo," a chronicle of early kings inscribed in the period of the Vth Dynasty, we have a list of early kings of the North, Seka, Desau, Tiu, Tesh, Nihab, Uatjântj, Mekhe. The names are primitive in form. We know nothing more about them. Last year Mr.
Tiu, tiu, tiu will, will, will weep, weep, weep I can hear them now. But I must stop, or I shall go on for ever. Believe me, the beauties of Sampaolo are very great." It was a long speech, but it had had an attentive listener.
Then with such ceremony as we could without the services of the priests of Osiris, Karema and I buried her in a tomb that Bes had caused to be made near to the steps of the temple of the Grasshopper, while Bes and his nobles watched from a distance. And so farewell to my beloved mother, the lady Tiu. After she was gone I grew very sad and lonely.
I said to Bes when we were outside the palace, for I was so broken with grief that I scarcely knew what I did. "To the house of the lady Tiu, I think, Master, since there you must make preparations for your start on the morrow, also bid her farewell.
If anyone should tell you that the giant was winter, and his kettles the strangely shaped icebergs of the arctic North, would you believe it? Thor was the god of thunder riding in the clouds with his brother, the god of bravery and of the strong winds. Tiu's name has been given to the day before Woden's day, and when Tuesday comes, try to be as true, brave, and swift as Tiu, the son of Woden.
Tiu, Ziu, or Tyr, were three names for one of Woden's sons. Tiu was the brother of Thor, and his mother, Frigga, was always proud of his courage in war and of his skill and strength in battle. The soldiers of the Northland cried to him for help as often as they did to his father, Woden.
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