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gi'andiuother took him up and attended to his needs also. She com- 

 pleted this task and laid him along-side of the one who had first come. 

 So thereupon she devoted her attention to her child who was dead. 

 Then, turning herself about to face the place where she had laid the 

 two infants, she said: '' Which of you two destroyed my child '. " One 

 of them answered, saying: "Verily, he himself it is, I believe." This 

 one who had answered was a very marvelously strange person as to 

 his form. His flesh was nothing but flint." Over the top of his head 

 there was, indeed, a sharp comb of flint. It was therefore on this 

 account that he emerged bj- way of her armpit. 



But the flesh of the other was in all respects similar in kind to that 

 of a man-being. He spoke, saying: "He himself, indeed, killed 

 her." The other one replied, saying: "Not at all, indeed." He again 



ro"nisten"a'. 



liis mother. 



tho'hen'to"'. 



thence he came 

 first. 



iakaofi'he'io'" 



she i.s (lead . 



E'tho'ne' wa'thofiwaia'ta'kwe' wa'hoiiwakwata'ko' 



At that time she his body took up she cared for him well 



Wa'es"a' neii' ska"ne' wa'hoiiwatiia'tion'nite' ne' 



She it finished now one at (place) she lay their bodies extended the 



Ta'. 



the 



e'tho'ne' 



at that time 



ofitatien''a" 



Iicr otTsprin^. 



nen 



now 



wii'tiontate'nia'rii'ne" 



she her her hands set to 



ne 



the 



E'tho'ne' 



At that time 



nen 



now 



ne"saiontie'ra'te' dji' non'we' 



again she herself turned where the place 



toward it 



wit'i'ro"': " 0""ka' ne' teseniia"she 



she it .said; " Who is it the ve two individ- 



ni'honwatiia'tion'nito'" 



she them laid extended 



noilka'ti' 



.•<ide of it 



tii'hno"" 



wa'shako'rio 



he her killed 



the 



Shaia'ta- 



He one 



person 



Ke"'i'ke" 



This it is 



ta'hata'ti' 



wiVhen'ro"': 



he it said: 



Ibe- 



Rao""ha'. 



• He liimself 



(itisi. lieve, 



rotonkwe'tiltie'ro" 



his person ugly (isi 



kheit'fi''a'?" 



my otTspring?" 



wii'^hr'." 



ta'hata'ti' ione'hra'kwa't 



thence he it is marvelous 



replied 



ni'hiiia'to'te"'. Ao'sko"' tawi'skara' ne' raoieron'ke'. 



such his body It is wholly flint (crystal) the his flesh on. 



kind (is) chert 



ta'tie' raoiiofidjistakeiTiate' io'hio'thi'ie' tawi'skara' 



the 



dji' 



where 



Teiotaro- 



It has a ridge 

 (along it) 



e". Ne" 



u It is for this reason that he is called Tawiskaro"', which is the Mohawk name for flint or chert. 

 Consult The Cosmosonic Gods of the Iroquois, Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., v. 44, pp. 241 and following. 1S96. 



