One wired page, and it gives barley a liturgy, not just a first cause. Wainamoinen "Finds six seeds of golden barley", "Even seven ripened kernels", on the seashore, and pouches them in squirrel-skin [The Kalevala, Rune II]. A titmouse supplies the agronomy — no crop "If the forest be not levelled", "And the branches burned to ashes" — so the trees fall, an eagle kindles the burn (the birch alone spared for the birds), and into the warm ash the sower speaks: "I the seeds of life am sowing" [ibid.]. Ukko is petitioned for clouds from every quarter and answers in bulk: "Grasped the cloud, and hurled it earthward" [ibid.]. Within a week Wainamoinen "Found the blades were triple-knotted", "And the ears he found six-sided"; the cuckoo is then invited to sing "For the ripening of the barley" [ibid.]. The candidate lane offered Apollodorus's Athens chapter, but its lone barley is ritual gravel-for-groats in a Frazer note — noise, named as such. Thompson's only other row is Jewish (Neuman), unwired. On our shelf barley arrives as a four-party covenant: finder, fire, soil, and rain-god.