The Great Oath of the Deathless Gods

When strife and quarrel arise among the deathless gods, then zeus sends iris to bring in a golden jug. From far away, the famous cold water which trickleso on from a high and beetling rock far under the wide pathed earth flows through the dark night out of the holy stream. With nine swirling streams, he winds about the earth and the sea's wide back, and then falls into the main but the tenth flows out from a rock,. For whoever of the deathless god that holds the peak of snowy olympus pours a libation of her water, is forsworn, lies breathless until a full year is completed, and never comes near to