Where once Iylum stood, greatest of all cities for the greatest of all gods, before stood Caredwiy, shrine of the twins, Ymer and Yris.
Yris loved her brother Ymer, but Ymer coveted the mortal Eco; obsequious, to her lord she came. Poisoned by envy's bile, Yris stabbed them both in the temple bed where they lay.
On misted morn Ymer slept upon a bier by the lyart soughing of the bay. Yris took torch to his catafalque, ushered him from the shore; and I thought to hear her say:
Ashes, take him back to earth. Water, quench my lover's thirst.
Lights of his pyre glimmered as wisps in the fog. The sea received Ymer, and from him took its name.
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