Mebet’s glory
Word of the victory over the Vaynot host swept like a snowstorm across the taiga and the tundra. So astonishing was the news that for a long time people were unsure of what to make of it.
One thing was clear, however. The myth of Mebet, the one whom the gods favored and a man not of this world, became ever stronger and turned into firm belief. But this firm belief gave people no comfort. Again the old men and women of the clans puffed on a pipe filled with dry moss and wondered who among the gods had seduced Mebet’s mother. They recalled how Mebet had hunted and slain a bear several years in a row, refusing any helpers in doing so, and even as a youth he sat in the circle of elders at the bear feast, which earned him the envy of other hunters. When Mebet grew weary of being
