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man, in close-fitting tunic and long white hair, having a 
medicine-bag. The Turoks have a legend of a person named 
Gard, who was almost perfect in life and.teaching, but one 
day disappeared. They searched for him for a long time, when 
he again came from the land of spirits, reaffirmed his former 
teachings, and established the dance of peace, which is still 
known. ‘The Pomos have an idea of a Great Man above, 
but he is a negative being, for the active principle, the 
creator, has always resided m the Coyote,—their idea of in- 
carnation. The Maidus have a tradition of a child who grew 
up in four or five days, was more powerful than anybody, did 
many wonderful works, conquered a she-devil, redeemed his 
tribe from servitude, taught them many things, went to heaven, 
and once reappeared in the form of the rainbow.* ‘I'he name 
of the Son of the Creator, according to the Pimas, was 
Szeukha, who lived in the Gila Valley.t 
The Twanas and Clallams of Washington Territory are as 
full of the tradition of the coming of Dokibatl, the Changer, 
as they are of the practice of incantations. He changed 
worthless men into animals, stones, and mountains, taught 
them many things, did other wonderful works, and his foot- 
tracks still remain, as they believe, inarock. I have never 
satisfied myself that it was a tradition of the Son of God, but 
when they had learned of Him they said that Dokibatl was 
the Son of God, and occasionally called him Jesus. 
The Iroquois have a beautiful tradition of one who came 
from heaven, set a good example, sacrificed his daughter to 
the Supreme Being, at which time he was much dejected, 
said they must submit to the divine will, and again ascended 
to heaven amid beautiful strains of music. { 
(b) What man owes to the Supreme Being and other deities. 
(1) Thanksgiving.—As a favoured being, man should thank 
these spirits. 
In Peru, when a poor labourer ascended a hill, he unbur- 
dened himself and said three times, ‘‘ I adore him who enables 
me to endure, I give thanks to him who has given me strength 
to endure thus far”’; and then a slight offering was made, it 
might be a hair of the eye-lash, a twig, straw, handful of 
earth, or small stone. These small heaps of earth and stone 
exist to the present day. Of their four great feasts, the first 
was in the summer, and was a national feast of gratitude. It 
is fully described by T'schudi.§ 
* Contributions to N. A. Ethnology, pp. 24, 80, 161, 298-305. 
+ Bancroft’s Native Races of the Pacific, vol. iil. p. 78. 
+ Schoolcratt’s Notes on the Lroquois. 
§ Tschudi’s Peruvian Antiquities, p. 153. 
