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shown the probability of its identity with the Shadow Spirit (Sect. 

 68). Equally striking is its resemblance to the word Huracan, the 

 name given by the Aztecs to the autumnal equinox (Cordonazo de 

 San Francisco). Huracan means the Spirit (corason) of the Sea, 

 the Spirit of Heaven and Earth: the Nahuas were unable to con- 

 ceive of the author of the universe except in a cataclysm. Cyclone, 

 Hurricane, or Cordonazo de San Francisco are names of the same 

 phenomenon. Hurakan of the Quiche mj-ths is the Kukulcan of 

 the Maya, the Quetzalcouatl (morning-star) of Mexican mythology. 

 Yawahu, the Arawak generic term, includes the Tu-kuyuha, the 

 Ekkekuh or Manahau, and the MansinsRiri Spirits, the Tu-kuyuha 

 being subdivided into Konoko-(Tu)kuyuha and Adda-(Tu)kuyuha, 

 according as they are more specially associated with the bush and 

 forest, or trees, respectively. 



95. Each tribe seems to exhibit variations in the ideas held as to 

 the form, shape, and peculiarities assumed by its rospcctivo Bush 

 Spirits. Of some of these 1 am able to furnish the foUowing particu- 

 lars : Starting with the Arawak Yawahus, there are the Tukuyuhas, 

 the Konoko variety of which arc spoken of by the Akawai as Arai-dai 

 or Dai-Dai. and V)y the Creoles of the Colony as ''Busli devils." An 

 Arawak woman told me that such Spirits are hairy people having so 

 much hair that one can not see their faces. They live underground 

 in the forest; they may be men or women; they are met with sud- 

 denly, but may often give a premonitory sign or token of their 

 coming. The token varies greatly, and even when taken note of is 

 usually recognized only after the event of which it has given warn- 

 ing has taken place (Sect. 220 et seq.). Having no bows and arrows, 

 these Spirits ai-e accustomed to fight only with their limbs, so that 

 when an Indian has been attacked and returns home, where he is 

 sure to die shortly after, no marks will be found on his body. Some- 

 times the Konoko-(TulkMyuha \v\l\ not even allow the victim to 

 return aUve, but will eat him, causing him to disappear totally; the 

 friends and relatives never see any further signs of him. The attack 

 may be made at any time, day or night. Now, because these bemgs 

 (Sect. 331) have no l^ows, or rather what bows they have are broken, 

 the old-time Arawak people used to call them Shimarabu-akaradani 

 (lit., bows-broken), and when returning home from some hunting 

 or trading expedition, woidd suig out that name before reaching 

 their houses, with the view of preventing these undesirable Spirits 

 making an entry (Sect. 129). 



96. Tlie Adda variety of Tukuyidia Spiiits, particular!}' associated 

 with trees, are sometimes in the shape of birds : among such notable 

 trees are the silk-cotton (Bombax s]^.) and the kofa (C7usia grandi- 

 flora). In Cayenne it would seem that the Hvi-ouca [Yurokon] was 

 specially attached to a tree known as panacoco (LAP, ii, 22.3), 



