The Symbaians call it that because Stix wanted it to be big and strong and subdue the kingdoms of Parthegar[1]. He made her a beast, devourer of men, with three hearts: one that guards the passions[2], another that guards the ideas[3] and another that guards the piety with which he earns the favor of the gods[4]; and he placed them far from the other kingdoms, so that he would not listen to their whims or their prayers. The mountains of Ipharmeler rose above the Mother and her head touches the feet of the gods. And for this, Stix sent her a beast, just as fierce and hungry as she was. The sufabes say that Atarous was a great horrible beast. He was the son of Stix and Bosphy, the goddess that the Tajan worshiped. And Stix wanted the beast not to leave Atare. However, all the Fartans, all the Targathians, all the Tharcaians, all the Merinians and all the Tajan went to her and passed through her bowels[5]. He devoured many men for many dozens of years, until Stix wanted a taya and a Symba to finally take his life. And that is why Borgar[6] and Barvecothar[7] went to Atare, who were the last among the Tajan, and when they reached the entrance to their cave, the man said: "Come out, terrible beast, of divine stock, for your "Father, the god whom the symbas worship, has decided that you will die by the hand of a taya and it must be one of us two, but you will not be able to kill us both, since we are the last." The beast came out of the cave and, looking at them, two red stars lit up within their sockets and, responding, he said to Borgar: "Strong man, you speak words of the gods, but know that a dead man can kill." And having said this, he sank his jaw into the earth, beneath the Tajan, and raised it towards his upper teeth, which were at the height of the treetops. But Borgar was able to escape from the land and Atarous only swallowed Barvecothar. Then the man's chest was filled with rage and, climbing up the trunk of a tree, he threw himself at the belly of the beast and, sticking his dumo[8] into it, he split it to the ground. And the beast died there and from its body came all the Fartans, all the Targathians, all the Tharcaians, all the Merinians, but no Tajan came out. Then Atarous' jaw broke off from his bone head and fell on Borgar, but he managed to get out of the way before he fell. And he thought that the words of the beast, that a dead man can kill, were a lie. Then he looked for his wife, but Barvecothar was dead, with Borgar's dumo stuck in her chest. Then the Tajan, filling his heart with sadness, took the woman's dumo and stuck it in his chest, and from within it the sadness and the soul escaped, through the narrow gap between the iron and the flesh. Thus Borgar died by a dead woman's weapon. And their entire people went with them.
But Stix wanted three snakes with the faces of women to emerge from the bowels of Atarous. The first ate the other two and Gadaggenax took it to Seletus, where there was only one Symba, Crodarcous[10], who was going to marry a woman. woman from the island, whose name was Ascely[11]. But the snake came to the island and killed the woman with the child in her womb. And that night he took her form, went to her bed and joined Crodarcous. But the beast went to the room of the king of the island, Caiba[12], and devoured him to feed the two sons inside it. Then the inhabitants of the island thought that Crodarcous had murdered the king, so they banished him along with the beast, which they believed to be Ascely, and they went to the land that will be Aethuphar, where the beast gave birth to Eutus[13] and Paraercus[14]. And at that moment Athparcide and Urtefarhide were bathing in the waters of the Enciale when Miuscaedus saw them and, his divine chest filled with desire, he pounced on them, and they fled towards where the two were. There the oldest goddess of the two saw the symba and her divine chest was filled with desire, then she stopped her brother and said to him: "My brother, I know that your chest is always hungry; there is a woman who, you can see, She is the most beautiful among the mortals who live today; if you accept this opinion of mine, we will dress the three skins of humans, emulating a man, his wife and his daughter, and we will offer them lodging in a house; there we will give you the power to seduce her, so that I can go to your bed and you can empty your chest." Then the old man looked at the beast and said, "Sister, your opinion is pleasing to my ears and I will do what you say and in the way you say it."
Then, the three gods dressed in human skins and went to where Crodarcous, the beast, and his two sons were, and Athparcide said to them: "Sons of Gadaggenax, from the bushes we have heard you speaking the language of the Symbas, which is also our people." And Miuscaedus to them: "Know that my name is Dalianorderous, I am the son of the king of Panimothy, Lumpiceda; the one who has spoken to you is my wife, Alaparmy, and the girl taken by her hand is Thordaxcartous, my daughter." And Athparcide, inside the skin of Alaparmy, to them: "As determined by the gods, we offer you to stay in our house these three nights; there you will have food, clothing and a bed." And the beast to them: "May the gods protect you; my name is Ascely, I am not symba, but I have been espoused by Crodarcous, who is here with me." And Crodarcous to them: "May Stix be favorable to you; we accept your lodging." And having said this, they went towards the castle that the three gods had prepared and there they slept three nights. And on the first night Athparcide went to Crodarcous' room and, touching his chest with her divine fingers, filled him with desires for her; and Urtefarhide went to the beast's room and, touching his chest with his divine fingers, filled it with desires for her brother. Then, on the second night, Athparcide, inside Alaparmy's skin, went to Crodarcous' room and they joined in his bed. There they conceived Escalguero[15], the father of all the Apsilians; and Miuscaedus, inside the skin of Dalianorderous, went to the beast's room and, filling its chest with his words, which was the power of his sister[16], they joined together in his bed and there they conceived a son, of the lineage of the gods, but of the flesh of beasts. Then, on the third night, Athparcide, inside the skin of Alaparmy, went to Crodarcous' room and they joined in his bed. There they conceived Ecmoinuthchalous[17], the father of all the Gogorians; and Miusquedo, inside Dalianorderous' skin, went to the beast's room. But that night he wore loose clothes, so the beast saw his erect penis[18] before he could seduce her with his words, so she feared that he would try to force her and, abandoning Ascely's skin, she bit his divine phallus, until tear it off. And full of pain, the god killed the beast there, with the son in its womb, in the same way that it had killed Ascely when she was carrying her son in her womb. But the god rebuilt her body and, the next day, when Crodarcous went to the room of the one he believed to be his wife, he thought that she had died because her heart would have been tired by all the sorrows.
Then he spoke to Giltuparmous, to look for Nordertor. And the god agreeing, went to the great wolf to notify him, who went to the castle garden and, seeing him, Crodarcous said: "Divine animal from the hands of Stix, I call you because my wife, the one who has engendered my two sons, has died with a chest full of regret for exile." And the earth-skinned wolf said to him: "Son of the lineage of Paldacar, beloved of Gadaggenax, know that this is not your wife, for she died on the island, with your son in her womb, but this one who She died here, she is the daughter of Stix and your sons are of divine lineage and your descendants will be great; but you must now go to the island, because Stix wants you to prevail over Arfila, the son of Caiba, and for the throne of Seletus to be one of the Symbas." And after saying this, the divine beast carried the mother of the Dutorians on its back and departed. Then Urtefarhide, with his chest full of compassion and pity, approached the symba, wearing the skin of Thordaxcartous, and said to him: "Good and pious man, you have gone along the path set by the gods and many sorrows have fallen on you; Know that I am not the daughter of Dalianorderous, but one of the divine daughters of Arthe, who ignite desire among men and women; know that Arfila has a mother, Goiely, whom he loves very much; you can approach her and seduce her with your words and, when she is favorable to you, Arfila will open the doors of her castle to you, so that you can approach it and move it; for that I will give you to wear the skin of Ialce, one of her most beloved soldiers, who has been seven years he went to Apsil to fight, but he died there." And, having said this, the goddess dressed Crodarcous with the flesh of the soldier and, touching the symba's lips with the divine skin of her fingers, thus gave him the power to fill her breasts with desires. Then the one who will be the king returned to the island.
[1] Fártas means "the imposing one." The other Symbaian peoples had called the region in which Atare, Ipharmeler and Telmither were located that way because the three kingdoms had joined together to invade the other Symbaian kingdoms of Parthegar.
[2] Atare. The myth names it that way because this was the most warlike kingdom of the three, the one that provided the most soldiers.
[3] Telmither. The myth names it that way because most of the generals, rulers involved and strategists were Telmithrians.
[4] Ipharmeler. The myth names it this way because the Symbaians considered that this city had the favor of the gods, because the Plercus, the place where they lived, was located on a mountain that was located in this kingdom. For this reason, many temples had been erected and many priestly colleges had been established in Ipharmeler, dedicated to the most important deities, such as Stix.
[5] For several centuries, several Symbaian kingdoms tried to invade Atare, to weaken the military wing of Farte, but all these expeditions failed, and many Symbaians, Tharcaians, Merinians and Tajans died in the Fartan kingdom. Atarous is an analogy, both of Atare and Farte together.
[6] Borgar (tj.). From Middle Proto-Vermaric *b(o)(r)(e), "earth" (cf. Bripoε dm., Breφje gnm., Bósφis Symbaian version of the name of the Tajan goddess Bosφei), and *gal, "man" (cf. gal dm. gar gnm.).
[7] Barvekozr (tj.). From Middle Proto-Vermaric *(b)(a)l(i)u, "sky" (cf. Liu dm., Ra gnm.), and *akʰutʰl-, "to be born" (cf. iгuдlega dm., ihuzrege gnm.).
[8] According to the Paladasty, the only one of the sons of Stix and Bosphy to whom Stix had given the power to speak was Garchy (58.229-230). However, in this source, which is older than Lumpicurx's writing of the Paladasty, being pre-Christian, Atarous can speak.
[9] dýmω, a hunting spear of Symbain origin. Although the weapons of Borgar and Barvecothar do not belong to this type, because they are not Symbaian, Umpare confuses them and identifies them with them because she does not know another term to name them.
[10] Krωdárkoys, "he who begets all."
[11] Askῆlis, name of pre-Symbainic origin.
[12] Χâibas, name of pre-Simbain origin.
[13] First mythological king of Aethuphar and father of the Symbainic lineage of the Eutets.
[14] First mythological king of Gul and father of the Symbainic lineage of the Paraercets. The reason why, in the myth, these two kings are sons of the serpent is that Umparo sought to present the ancestry of the Eutets and Paraercets, who were descendants of the Seletos, as uniquely Symbaian. The Dutorians accused the Seletians of not being pure Symbaians, of being mixed sons with the ancient inhabitants of the island. For this reason Umparous explicitly replaces Ascily with this beast which, furthermore, being the daughter of Atarous, belongs to the lineage of Stix.
[15] Skalgéroys ("he of the stone legs"). First mythological king of Apsil and father of the Scalgeran tribe. Its name comes from the fact that the Dutorians said that the Apsilians had strong legs to run or carry things. [16] Urtefarride was the ordeal of verbal seduction, so the snake's desire towards Miuscaedus was of this nature.
[17] Kmωinyzχáloy ("he of the leaves"; Kmωinyzὴnoys in Fartan Symbaian). First mythological king of Gogor and father of the Cmoinuthchalan tribe. Its name is due to the fact that the Gogorians had settled in a meadow of green trees.
[18] Miuscaedus belonged to a group of minor divinities called atsurls, who were a type of satyrs, with always erect penises, who harassed and abused passers-by in the forests and on the banks of rivers.