Counting in Kue:

        The above song is a classic, number song. Many songs of the elfs were always associated with numbering, as it meant the increase of their powers, not only through time and the ages, but in sovereignty. Thirteen is always regarded a sacred number to the elfs, for it depicts wholesome completeness of nature: five elemental points, four seasons and four winds (or eight feasts).
        In the Chronicles of Tristan: In Search of the Welgòrzhsa, the Number songs reappear dominantly with Itheuks T'Bleth. In his dreams, Itheuks hears the song of children as they sing to him in numbers. As he learns, these numbers are clues to the missing Welgòrzsha, and they are codes from Klak's Letters in the Chronicles of Tristan: The Revelation.
        Tarshah was singing a song that was a vision, belonging to Òurias Noíragga. In his vision, he saw a choir of the Arganáis, each of them wreathed in a refining fire. They were in the heavens, and they were singing the above tune. Behind them, a door was opened and the sky bled, like it did once in the Book of the Morning when the Xandràxan was released to plague Arden. The song was sung during the period of Dark Sleep as a portent to Kuírbha, when he mastered the Realm of Uran.
        Òurias Noíragga witnessed this in a vision before seeing the "pillar of fire" on the Altar of Connaírgha. He inscribed this song on the stone altar in Thría Ceárthaódh, the temple of the Warriors of Srí. The song is translated:

"One, two, three, the Devil is the Adversary, that always is chasing after me. Four, five, six, he is always throwing sticks at me. Seven, eight, nine, he misses the mark all the time. Ten, eleven, twelve, God dwells in his Temple. And, then, thirteen, appears the bright, saving at the Morning Watch (or, at Dawn) in the Horizon. Profound fear passes onto the Devil in the Lake of Fire forever and ever. Glory be! Amen."

        I have uploaded a page of the Cátern Numbering as supplemental material to the Kue Mythology. On the same page, you can also find information on the Days of the Week, Watches, the elfin Months and Sidereal Information. Who knows the conception behind the lyrics that Tarshah is singing? Anyone ever remember singing the song of “One, Two, Three” with “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow,” (the cow that is blamed to starting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871) around the campfire with some marshmallows and smores? We used to sing this song around the campfire as kids at Camp Mowana in Fleming Falls, Ohio.