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much an intellectual appetite as it is with us. How does he try 
to satisfy this craving? Mr. Tylor, another authority on these 
vastly interesting enquiries replies:—‘‘ When the attention of a 
man in the myth-making stage of intellect’"—(a delightful phrase 
that)—‘“ is drawn to any phenomenon or custom, which has to 
him no obvious reason, he invents a story to account for it.” 
We now know how it is that savages come to have a mythology. 
It is their way of satisfying the early form of scientific curiosity, 
and their way of realizing the world in which they move. But 
they frame their stories, necessarily and naturally, in harmony 
with the general theory of things, with what we may call ‘‘ savage 
metaphysics. But to the savage and apparently to peoples more 
backward than the most backward peoplesof which we know, all 
nature was a series of animated personalities. 
Thus the Bushmen say the wind was formerly a person, and 
it is a tradition among them that he was once seen. The 
Egyptians, according to Herodotus, believed fire to be a live 
east. 
The Piute Indians have this legend: The sun is the father 
and ruler of the heavens. Heis the big chief. The moon is his 
_wife, and the stars are their children. The sun eats his children 
whenever he can catch them. They flee before him, and are all 
the time afraid when he is passing through the heavens. When 
he (their father) appears in the morning you see all the stars, his 
children, fly out of sight, go away back into the blue of the above, 
and they do not wake to be seen again until he (their father) is 
about going to his bed. 
Down deep under the earth—deep, deep under the ground—is a 
great hole. At night, when he has passed over the world, 
looked down on everything, and finished his work he, the sun, 
goes into his hole, and he crawls and creeps along till he comes 
to his bed in the middle part ofthe earth. So then he, the sun, 
sleeps there in his bed all night. 
This hole is so little, and he, the sun, is so big, that he cannot 
turn round in it, and so he must, when he has had his sleep, pass 
on through, and in the morning we see him come out in the east. 
When he, the sun, has come out he begins to hunt up through 
the sky to catch and eat any that he can of the stars, his children ; 
for if he does not so catch and eat he cannot live. He, the sun, 
is not allseen. The shape of him is like a snake or a lizard. It 
is not his head that we see, but his belly, filled up with the stars 
~ that times and times he has swallowed. 
The moon is the mother of the heavens, and is the wife of the 
sun. She, the moon, goes into the same hole as her husband to 
sleep her naps. But always she has great fear of the sum her 
husband, and when he comes through the hole to. the nobee (tent) 
