They hacked at him with sabres,
sliced at him with axes, lunged at him with spears and cut at him with swords, but they were unable to inflict a
single wound on him. The Southern Dipper angrily ordered all the gods of the Department of Fire to set him
alight and burn him up, but he would not ignite. He told the gods of the Department of Thunder to nail
splinters of thunder into him, but however hard they tried they could not harm a hair of his body.