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increased and the clamor of their complainings grew loud and beseech- 

 ing. Again the Two, augmenting the growth of the great ladder, guided 

 them upward, this time not all at once, but in successive bands to 

 become in time the fathers of the six kinds of men (the yellow, tlie tawny 

 gray, the red, the white, the mingled, and the black races), and with 

 them the gods and creatures of them all. Yet this time also, as before, 

 multitudes were lost or left behind. The third great cave- world, where- 

 unto men and the creatures had now ascended, being larger than the 

 second and higher, was lighter, like a valley in starlight, and named 

 Awisho tehuli — the Vaginal-womb, or the Place of Sex-generation or 

 Gestation. For here the various peoples and beings began to multi- 

 ply apart in kind one from another; and as the nations and tribes of 

 men and the creatures thus waxed numerous as before, here, too, it 

 became overiilled. As before, generations of nations now were led out 

 successively (yet many lost, also as hitherto) into the next and last 

 world-cave, T^pahaian tehuli, the TJltimate-imcoverable, or the Womb 

 of Parturition. 



Here it was light like the dawning, and men began to perceive and to 

 learn variously according to their natures, wherefore the Twain taught 

 them to seek first of all our Sun-father, who would, they said, reveal to 

 them wisdom and knowledge of the ways of life — wherein also they were 

 instructing them as we do little childi-en. Yet like the other cave- 

 worlds, this too became, after long time, filled with progeny ; and finally, 

 at periods, the Two led forth the nations of men and the kinds of being, 

 into this great upper world, which is called Tek'ohaian lilahnane, or 

 the World of Disseminated Light and Knowledge or Seeing. 



THE CONDITION OF MEN WHEN FIRST INTO THE WORLD OF 



DAYLIGHT BORN. 



Eight years made the span of four days and four nights when the 

 world was new. It was while yet such days and nights continued that 

 men were led forth, first in the night, that it might be well. For even 

 when they saw the great star {moyachun ^hldna), which since then is 

 spoken of as the lying star [moltwanosona), they thought it the Sun 

 himself, so burned it their eyeballs ! Men and the creatures were nearer 

 alike then than now : black were our fathers the late born of creation, 

 like the caves from which they came forth ; cold and scaly their skins 

 like those of mud-creatures; goggled their eyes like those of an owl; 

 membranous their ears like those of cave-bats ; webbed their feet like 

 those of walkers in wet and soft places; and according as they were 

 elder or younger, they had tails, longer or shorter. They crouched 

 ■when they walked, often indeed, crawling along the ground like toads, 

 lizards and newts; like infants who still fear to walk straight, they 

 crouched, as before-time they had in their cave-worlds, that they nnight 

 not stumble and fall, or come to hurt in the uncertain light thereof. And 

 when the morning star rose they blinked excessively as they beheld its 



