Post by Pyro on Jan 18, 2010 21:27:40 GMT -5
Although he had a daughter, Hittavainen’s attentions were always on his wife, Wepuat. Their daughter, Wenet, always sought to please her father, but nothing she did ever seemed to draw his eyes away from her mother. So, one day she decided to create something that would finally cast his eyes from her mother and force them upon her instead. Taking clay made from the stars of the Great Sky River, she molded a little statue that had the appearance of her father. Feeling that no one should ever be alone, she made another statue, a female version of the male statue. Wenet brought these statues to life and put them on the earth where they populated a small valley with their children over the course of a few years. Through these years Wenet was patient and gave them such thing as they could survive: Weapons such as the spear, and lesser versions of Hittavain’s bow and arrow. She also gave them fire, which she borrowed from her aunt, Ostara.
Finally she believed her creations ready to show her father. But when she did he went into a rage. His uniqueness that his wife, Wepuat, had so praised him for was gone. In his rage he killed Wenet. Wepuat wailed her sadness and the rabbits and hares of earth joined her, copying her own cry to show they sympathized with her. The goddess tried to leave him, but Hittavainen would not let her. He locked her away with Fenrir in the underworld, and when Ostara and Sasanka, her sisters the sun and moon goddesses tried to save her, Fenrir sent his own children, Skoll and Hati to chase them away. Freki, the blackest wolf of all, followed after his older sister, Hati, in hopes that he could be the moon if ever Hati caught Sasanka.
Realizing that now he had no one, Hittavainen grew sad. He might have died of grief had not he took a second look at his daughter’s creations. Now he saw them as a blessing. Just as all the other animal gods had their people, so did he have his.