24. MYTHOLOGY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
breathings is analogic, but not homologic. The basis of his philosophy 
is personality, and hence he has four wind-gods. 
The philosopher of the ancient Northland discovered that he could 
cool his brow with a fan, or kindle a flame, or sweep away the dust with 
the wafted air. The winds also cooled his brow, the winds also swept 
away the dust and kindled the fire into a great conflagration, and when 
the wind blew he said, “Somebody is fanning the waters of the fiord,’ 
or “Somebody is fanning the evergreen forests,” and he relegated the 
winds to the class of fannings, and he said, “The god Hreesvelger, clothed 
with eagle-plumes, is spreading his wings for flight, and the winds rise 
from under them.” 
The early Greek philosopher discovered that air may be imprisoned 
in vessels or move in the ventilation of caves, and he recognized wind as 
something more than breath, something more than fanning, something 
that can be gathered up and scattered abroad, and so when the winds 
blew he said, “The sacks have been untied,” or “The caves have been 
opened.” 
The philosopher of civilization has discovered that breath, the fan- 
wafted breeze, the air confined in vessels, the air moving in ventila- 
tion, that these are all parts of the great body of air which surrounds 
the earth, all in motion, swung by the revolving earth, heated at the 
tropics, cooled at the poles, and thus turned into counter-currents and 
again deflected by a thousand geographic features, so that the winds 
sweep down valleys, eddy among mountain erags, or waft the spray 
from the crested billows of the sea, all in obedience to cosmic laws. 
The facts discerned are many, the discriminations made are nice, and 
the classifications based on true homologies, and we have the science 
of meteorology, which exhibits an orderly succession of events even in 
the fickle winds. 
Sun and Moon.—The Ute philosopher declares the sun to be a living 
personage, and explains his passage across the heavens along an ap- 
pointed way by giving an account of a fierce personal conflict between 
Ti-vi, the sun-god, and Ta-wdts, one of the supreme gods of his my- 
thology. 
In that long ago, the time to which all mythology refers, the sun 
roamed the earth at will. When he came too near with his fierce heat 
the people were scorched, and when he hid away in his cave for a long 
time, too idle to come forth, the night was long and the earth cold. 
Once upon a time Ta-wdts, the hare-god, was sitting with his family by 
the camp-fire in the solemn woods, anxiously waiting for the return of 
Ti-vi, the wayward sun-god. Wearied with long watching, the hare-god 
fell asleep, and the sun-god came so near that he scorched the naked 
shoulder of Ta-wéts. Foreseeing the vengeance which would be thus 
provoked, he fled back to his cave beneath the earth. a-wdts awoke 
in great anger, and speedily determined to go and fight the sun-god. 
After along journey of many adventures the hare-god came to the brink 
