‘I am going to the mountains to fetch water for my mother.’
‘Don’t go, brother; you will die there.’
‘Bah! I will go there.’
‘Take thee my horse when thou goest, for my horse will carry thee thither. And take thee a watch, for they butt at one another from morning till noon, and at noon they rest for two hours. So when you come there at the twelfth hour, draw water in two pails from the two wells.’
He came thither at mid-day, and dismounted, and drew water in two pails, the water of life and the water of healing. And he came back to the Moon; and the Moon said, ‘Lie down and sleep, and rest, for you are worn out.’ [[33]]
She hid that water, and poured in other.
He arose. ‘Come, sister, I will depart home.’
‘Take my horse, and go riding. Take the saddle-bags.’
He went home to his mother. His mother saw him coming on horseback, and said to the dragon, ‘My son is coming on horseback.’
‘Tell him that you have seen a dream, that you bind his fingers behind his back with a silken cord; and that if he can burst it he will become a hero, and you will grow strong.’