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Show Strange Myth of th Tibetana. J The Tlbetena have numberless slrnnga mytha, one, the most curious, ' "crtalnlng to tho sun. moon sad stars. , The sun is believed to be an Inimena ( ball of yak meat and fat. whereon , tho apirlls of depsrted ancestors ar supposed In feast, the light being ranted by lu heated condition. Th siara are portions of thla Immense fiMst, which, dropping to esrth. glv ; blrlh to arlmals for the susteraticn of ' filtering humanity The nu,n la a i ' h-er bill! of similar texture as th nun. in ii"a while tho larger ono la i. 'lelre replenished for tho morrow. j t hen nn or moon falls to sppear In i, in'y dms and n'This It means that j the deities are undergoing a period i. of fisting and religious abnegation. i d the lurched and sterile condition f "f Idenk r. gii n Is ascribed to th C luet tent ninny thoinand jeara ago th sue l.s'l slipped Irom the barda of Its J keepers, den, nded too near tho earth, and. before belns recaptured, scorched t i hose pnrts with hlch It csme In con- tact. Itooktovcrt' Magazine. i |