It was thus, by much devising of ways, that men began to grow knowing in many things and were instructed by what they saw; in this way they became wiser and better able to receive the words and gifts of their fathers and elder brothers, the gods, the Twins and others, and priests. For already masters-to-be were among them. Even in the dark of the under-worlds such had come to be; as had, indeed, the various kinds of creatures-to-be, so these. And according to their natures they had found and cherished things, and had been granted gifts hy the gods; but as yet they did not know the meaning of their own powers and possessions, even as children do not know the meanings and right uses of the precious or needful things given them or even the functions of their own body parts! Now in the light of the Sun-father, persons became known from persons, and these things from other things; and thus the people came to know their many fathers among men, to know them by themselves or by the possessions they had.

   Now the first and most perfect of all these fathers among men after Póshaiyank'ya was Yanáuluha, who brouglht up from the under-world water of the inner ocean, and seeds of life-production and growing things; in gourds he brought these up, and also things containing the "of-doing-powers."





©1996, Richard Hooker

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