(^620) MANICHAEAN LITERATURE
THE CHILD ARMED AND THE SON OF EVIL
The child got through his months
until he could walk.
The little one among the tall stepped in.
He took up arms. He armed his waist.
He leapt and raced into the abyss.
He leapt and got to their center to battle them.
He humiliated the son of evil
and his seven companions and twelve slaves.
He wrecked their camp and cast it down.
He put out their roaring fire.
He bound the miserable myrmidons there,
who plotted to make war.
He grabbed their armor hanging there, readied
for war, destroyed their readied traps.
He ripped up their outspread nets.
He released the fish to go out to sea.
He let the birds fly up into space.
He let the sheep into their folds.
He seized the evil one's wealth. He went off
with it and took it up to the land of rest.
So he saved what the living took.
They will come back to what is theirs.
elliott
(Elliott)
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