and as the victim falls, he calls upon the god to whom he is sacrificing, and then at once throws a noose round its neck, and putting a small stick into it he turns it round and so strangles the animal, without either lighting a fire or making any first offering from the victim or pouring any libation over it:
eta, opalgaia erortzean, opari egin bide dion jainkoari dei egiten dio, eta ondoren lepoa inguratzen dio lakioz, eta, honi makila bat sartuz, bihurrituak eman eta ito egiten du, ez surik piztuz, ez aurre-eskaintzarik eginez, ez deus isuriz;