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Much better such a hereafter than the harping and adoration of the Christian Heaven! And by and by we could descend, hand in hand, to the third level of the Underworld, where the ancients gossiped in Leva's House of a Thousand Posts; where Taro grew to maturity overnight and fish leaped from the sea to fill one's canoe; where the souls of dead children played on the grassy knolls; where there were places of love more inviting than the places of the upper world; and where the strange Godess Leva plaited in her mat figures symbolic of the earthly life of each spirit.