Oas

Now when the search failed to find the babe, So-qi proclaimed that every male child of the City Oas would be slain if the child was not found.

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So-qi, King of Oas, sent out his armies throughout Jaffeth (China), conquering and slaying, bringing back ever more skulls for the Golgotha temples, more gold and more slaves for the enriching of King So-qi.

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[Illustration: When the soldiers of the city Oas saw that their King had not the backbone to enforce his own decree when it hurt himself, they one and all took up stones, and they stoned King So-qi to death.]

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For no decree of a King of Oas may be repealed, but is law forevermore.

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Sadly he pushed among the stalwart copper-colored men of Oas, gazing a little wistfully at the women's proud breasts and the strong young thews of their lovers beside them.

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Too-che was one of the finest ornaments of the city of Oas.

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Chojon, from the safety of the forest, made a scornful song about the tyrant of Oas who went to war against babes, and it was sung everywhere in the city, and the king could do nothing about it, for it was cleverly worded, seeming to approve, though in satire only.

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Golgotha, which was built entirely of human skulls -- the skulls of people conquered by the armies of Par'si'ya, over which the city of Oas reigned.

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"I suppose her child was fathered by Mazda, peering into her womb with his All-light," laughed So-qi, for in Oas it was not the fashion to worship the God Mazda anymore.

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"After three days on medication, their symptoms go away and they say, 'Oh you are better now you are done' and they want to release you," said her husband, Allan Oas.

CBC | Top Stories News 2011