taken. Ma they called Father, Sm became Son, Si
they called Holy Spirit, and Mn and Se they combined into one city
and called it Trinity.
7 In the lands below Zo they renamed Tm Vengeance, Tr, Pity, Tim,
Repentance, Fi, Sorrow, and Fs they called Suffer.
8 In the Land of Mu they called Lkf Beginning, and Len, Oneness. And
between them, in the foothills, they built a new city they called
Purity, for they said this land was pure, unspoiled by any evil.
9 And for a time, all was peace. Brown Goat did not have to worry any
more about war. For the rest of his time as First Speaker, there was
only peace and plenty.
10 And his days in The First Speaker's House were pleasant. One
afternoon, as the woman who took care of him was massaging him, she
smiled. "Lord," she inquired, "several years I have served you, and
always have I been curious. I know colors pertain to emotions- red
means anger, black means sorrow, and so on. But Lord, what does Brown
mean?"
11 Brown Goat laughed. "It doesn't mean anything at all," he
explained. "When I was a little boy there was a mud hole near my home.
All of us children loved to play in it. We would take off all our
clothes and run and jump in the mud. But there was no water to wash off
in. So we would gather up our clothes and head home to bathe.
12 Now, most of the children threw a coat or something on, but as my
house was just up the hill, I never bothered. And every time my mother
would see me coming, she would cry out 'Get a bucket of water! Here
comes our little Brown Goat!' The name kind of stuck, like the mud. I