qat

The handout paints a dire picture, but the qat users of Guangzhou are successful businessmen.

In the Melanesian myth, dawn is cut out of the body of night by Qat, armed with a knife of red obsidian.

To heal the disastrous social malady, Qat (the maker of things, who was more or less a spider) sent for Mate—that is, Death.

Qat killed the foe and revived his brothers, as the sons of Cronus came forth alive from their father's maw.

The new-comers cut the earth with a flint-knife, as Qat cut the palpable dark with a blade of red obsidian in Melanesia.

Qat's chief friend is Marawa, a spider, or a Vui in the shape of a spider.