I have not eaten since the world was very new and the flesh of men was tenderer than now. These younger gods have learned the habit of eating from the lions.
OORANDER
O oldest of divinities, partake, partake.
AGMAR
It is not fitting that such as I should eat. None eat but beasts and men and the younger gods. The sun and the moon and the nimble lightning and I—we may kill and we may madden, but we do not eat.
AKMOS
If he but eat of our offering he cannot overwhelm us.
ALL
Oh, ancient deity, partake, partake.
AGMAR