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MYTH OF THE EARTH-GRASPER 535 



Then Hadu''i' said, "It is certain, verily, thou hast great power 

 and thou wast able to cause the mountain standing yonder to move 

 hither, so that, verily, by reason of thy power this has befallen me 

 to-day. And I thought that I would see what manner of thing, any 

 way, grazed my shoulder, so then verily I turned around and I struck 

 my face against the mountain standing there, and verily, then it 

 became the truth to me that thou thyself hast finished the earth 

 present here, because verily thou wast able to control the standing 

 mountain. 



"It is true indeed that thou art the Ruler on the earth present 

 here. It is true, verily, that thou hast formed and completed all the 

 things which it contains. So then I have resolved that at once I 

 humble myself low before thee. Thou shouldst have mercy on me 

 that I should continue to live humbly. I will be able then to give 

 thee aid in that thou continuest to say verily that the race of human 

 beings are about to settle on the earth present here; in that I will 

 give aid to mankind. Very soon hereafter human beings will be 

 vexed by visions. 



"It is a fact that so it is that orenda (magic power) inheres in my 

 flesh.*" It has thus happened thereby that verily I have infected with 

 this orenda the earth present here. It is I verily who was the first 

 to wander to and fro on the earth present here. So that soon verily 

 it will be that human beings will be vexed by visions as they go to 

 and fro here on the earth. And verily the form of my body will be 

 imitated," also such as my face is when they will become ill, and in 

 the next place human beings will be bewitched as they go about from 

 place to place. 



"So then thus it shall be in order that it may be possible that 

 human beings who are ill may recover. If perhaps they will make a 

 wooden form patterned after the shape of my face, and also after 

 the shape of my body. So then that is the reason that so it will 

 come to pass that it will be by the means of that that I continue 

 to say that without fail I will assist and aid thee in all that thou 

 hast completed among mankind. 



"So that that will be the cause that they will recover health 

 when they are ill, that they shall continue to think in the greatest 

 contentment. So then this only shall contmue to be in the days 

 that are coming. Now in the next place I am going to say another 

 thing. That I believe that I am able to continue to aid the human 

 beings whom thou hast severally formed. In the next place I believe 

 that O'ha'a', who hates thy purposes, will resort to all manner of 

 things in his attempts to scatter whatever things he will be able, to 

 destroy thy work, and that is that people shall become ill and people 

 shall suffer in mind, and it will result only in putting an end to the 



See note on p. 610. 



