When his followers saw what was happening, they said, “Wisdomkeeper, should we strike with our long knives?”
“Wisdomkeeper!” they said, “Look, here are two long knives.” “That will be enough,” he answered.
“Will you betray the True Human Being with a kiss?” he said to him.
Before he could answer them, one of them drew his long knife from its sheath and cut off the right ear of the servant of the chief holy man.