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The third generation was sometimes many children for most and at least one for everyone but Sipau was a spinster because Othas stayed in the wilderness. She babysat for the others and soon the cave couldn’t hold them all. I made sure there was an equal number of boys and girls looking forward to the fourth generation. Then Sipau emerged as a mother to all the kids in a way and settled all disputes. She became so good at it that she emerged the leader of the colony.

Jikouh spoke one evening when they were all together saying, “We are overcrowded. That is why we do not enjoy life like we did,” for even among the adults there were shouting matches and hurt feelings sometimes.  But Sipau was able to patch things up every time calling on the Fourth with her every decision which he found tiresome because her female mind depended upon the male influence of his mind. They often called her, She is a wise One or Siawo. But even Siawo was stumped with a girl named A Tomboy Amongst the Humans or Atath.

 They had found neighboring caves to live in but Atath played with the boys in the larger cave. She even tried to urinate on the trees like the boys. None of them realized it but she was a female with a male mind.

A boy named His is Gentle Even Loving or Higel was kind to Atath and they were the best of friends. As they got older and the boys and girls began to match up Atath and Higel matched up by default because they were such good friends and though she was a tomboy she was very pleasing to look at. So they married. They were the last couple to do it, but they did. But Higel wanted children but Atath did not.

“Sipau oh, Siawo, tell me,” Atath said to Siawo, “How do I keep from asking John for a baby. I do not want children. I don’t know much about babies and wouldn’t know what to do with one. But Higel wants one so badly and I love him so much I don’t want to keep putting him off. What should I do?”

Siawo had never come across a young wife who was not willing to have at least once child. Atath turned to the Fourth, but he didn’t know what to do. So she asked Jesus.

Jesus said, “I know you care and you want to be a good wife. You are to be your husband’s servant the same as he is the part of the piac that is left with the final decision your piac makes.”

“Since when?” Atath said. “Nobody but you, my Lord tells me what to do.”

“You asked me,” Jesus said, “Do you know why you are to ask?”

“Yes,” Atath said, “Because you give us life and the fruit of the trees and all that we need, we are to ask you for anything and accept your decision even for what we do.”

“That is it,” Jesus said, “It makes no difference but you are to obey Higel the same.”

“He never ordered me,” Atath said, “And he better not. But he knows that. We have been together since we were little.”

So Atath thought about what Jesus said and then turned to God and asked him.

God replied, “I don’t care what you do so long as you obey your husband.”

Then Atath brought it to the Holy Spirit and knowing she was female she said, “Oh Spirit of Spirits,” or Sos, “Will you guide me in the matter of having little ones for my husband Higel?”

“I will,” the Holy Spirit said. “But you must follow me.”

But Atath felt no direction. The way she looked at it she had been a slave to her parents all her life and she had obeyed them even when it meant she couldn’t play with the guys. She was not going to be a slave to Higel and he wouldn’t want her to. So she didn’t ask any of the Gods for a child and Higel honored her decision. She was so happy she conceived at random and became pregnant with a random child, the first in the colony. Atath was upset and she took the matter to Sos, the Holy Spirit.

“Why did you give me a child?” Atath asked her believing she had done it.

“I did not do that,” Sos said.

“Then who did?” Atath asked for she was angry.

“No one did,” Sos said.

“How can it be?” Atath asked.

“You know nature,” she said, “If you do not act and if the God’s do not act, sometimes something happens anyway.”

Well she had the baby and it turned out normal and healthy but she named him, He or she is to my Accident or Hositma before he was born. Atath didn’t even want him on her stomach when Hositma was born. But she of course was expected to at least nurse him and that caused her to fall in love with Hositma and she never wanted to be apart from him.

But when Hositma was eight years old his bad luck seemed to cause him to be hit by the limb of a three that fell from an apple tree in the orchard. It seemed the boy had bad luck all his life. But he broke his shoulder and Atath noticed it would not heal like the other childrens’ scrapes and bruises did.

Again Atath went to Sos and asked her to heal her son.

“I would but his mind is of a kind I do not understand,” Sos replied. “He doesn’t listen to me or this would not have happened to him.”

“My God!” Atath said, “Can any of the Gods understand him?”

“He is not one of us,” the Holy Spirit said. “But I can do anything. I will heal him anyway if from now on you pray to me and ask me what to do for him. I will be your God and you will be my prophet to Hositma.”

“Can’t you be his God?” Atath asked.

“I don’t know him,” the Spirit of Spirits said. “I know his spirit for I made all spirits but you must teach him to let his spirit rule in his mind.”

“Oaky,” Atath said, “I will be as God to him as you are a God to me. But what about the Fourth? He made us.”

“Yes,” the Spirit of Spirits said. “But God remade Ham and Haf. John brought you to the garden and God made them exactly as John had. Still God has much to do with who and what they are. He has nothing to do with Hositma.”

So Atath went to take care of her ailing son and found him sitting up perky, in no pain and smiling.

“Praise God!” Atath cried. “Thank you, Holy Spirit, my God.”

“Why do you say that?” Higel asked her because he overheard her, “Everyone knows that the Fourth is our God.”

Atath explained the whole thing to Higel and he thought it weird but what was he to do?

Higel went to the Fourth and asked about it and he said, “She, the Holy Spirit is my Mother and therefore my God. Let her do what is best in her eyes for you and Hositma also. I try to follow her whenever I can. She is holy, more holy I fear than I am.”

The piac did not call on the Fourth anymore but did all their dealings with God through the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Spirits, the Mother of the Fourth God.

When Hositma was eighteen the rest of that generation was married but Hositma had no one to match with.

“What is going on, Sos?” Atath and Higel asked the Holy Spirit.

But she was silent.

Higel said, “It is because he was made by random nature,” to his beloved Atath.

She replied, “Oh, it is not! He is our son too! The Gods would not be that mean! How can you even think of something like that?”

So she turned to the Fourth, “Make our son a mate,” she demanded.

“He will never marry and die a virgin,” the Fourth said. “But I will bless his life as long as he lives.”

“Just not with a mate?” Atath said.

But even the Fourth was silent.

So they turned to God who said, “They are all the same to me,” like Jesus did.

Higel pleaded with Jesus to make him a mate and he made him one that had a spirit but never accessed her mind and lived entirely in the spirit of her brain called, A Mate For Our Son at Last or Amfosal. But even Higel and Atath could see the difference as they grew together. They didn’t love the same.

Now Higel took them out in the wilderness and when he got to a high rocky ledge of a great mountain he prayed in his mind, “Do something with this Piac. They are not one of us regardless of what Atath says. Let them live in the wilderness. They will be happier here.”

The Fourth heard them and brought Othas to them.

“I am Othas,” he said and he told them the story of what had changed his mind and had driven him out in the wilderness. They stayed with Othas many days and they got along so well that even Higel did not want to leave him and Hositma could not leave him alone out there any longer.

When it was time to leave they said their good-byes to their father promising to visit and he left. Then they and Othas stayed behind in the wilderness and Hositma and Amfosal had sons and daughters which Othas never mated with and was pure to the end of his life.

Othas was like a prophet to Hositma and an angel to Amfosal. They were not able to follow his teachings but remained very religious as long as Othas was alive and the Fourth saw to it that he lived a long and happy life. Then Hositma became their Priest and king. Their people flourished from the very start and for those who were not cursed Jesus would die spiritually for them as he would those in the Family of the Piacs

So Hositma was the father of those who lived in tents made of animal skins and kept sheep for after Othas died they moved to the prairie. When they died the good ones went the Place of Good Dreams and with Pleasures or Pogdawp where they thought Othas was while the bad ones went to A Place to Always Dream or Aptad which are actually the abyss. Othas actually went to A Place to Live in Excelence Forever or Aptlief which is actually heaven like those of the piac called it with God in the Family of the Piacs until there was nothing more to do, nothing more to say and nothing more to think.