TERMS FOR SUN AND MOON. Ixxxix 



added for "day" and "night." In the Tsinisian ;uul in some of the Selisli 

 dialects the terms for both also agree, bnt in the Shoshonian and Pueblo 

 languages they diflFer entirely. In Utah and other Shoshonian dialects the 

 term for moon shows the archaic or reverential suffix -pits, -piits previousl3' 

 noticed (ma-atawa-p!ts in Utah), which closely corresponds to TtaXaiqiaToZ 

 as used in tlie Homeric poems. 



While the sun divides time into days, seasons, and years, our sections 

 of time called weeks (quarters of the moon) and months (lunations, moons) 

 are due to the revolutions of the moon. This is what caused the Klamath 

 Indians to call both orbs by the same name : shapash the one, ivho tells, 

 which signifies: "which tells the time," or "time measurer." For the moon 

 a parallel form exists in the Timucua, once spoken in Florida : acu=hiba star 

 which tells, viz: "star measuring the time" and in the name of the Egyptian 

 moon-god Tehuti, called Tlioth by the Greeks,* also in our Germanic man, 

 English: moon, Germ. Mond, "the measurer." 



Here as elsewhere the moon appears under different names, for in 

 Klamath she is also called ukaii;josh " the one broken to pieces." This 

 term never applies to the sun, but only to the moon in the four phases, as a 

 changeable body.f Originally this was only an epithet of the moon, but in 

 course of time it gave origin to a separate deity, for Ukaii;^osh distinctly 

 appears as moon-god in a myth, which relates his marriage to Wek^tash, a 

 frog-woman living with ten beautiful sisters on the west side of Upper Kla- 

 math Lake. Ukau;^osh now carries her, the frog, in his heart, and this is 

 what we are wont to call " the man in the moon." Should only a little bit 

 be left of him when in the bear's moutli (referring to eclipse), she would be 

 able to bring him to life again. 



LfiME-ISH OR THUNDER. 



All elementary deities in the Klamath religion, except K'mukamtch 

 and Aishish, are mysterious, shadowy beings, not sufficiently anthropomor- 



* Various fuuctioiis are as.sigued to Telmti ; his symbol is tlie ibincrane, whose 

 long, pacing steps t'vi(U'iitly suggested to the myth makers ol Egypt the idea, that 

 he was measuring the earth. The name Tehuti is derived from tlie Egyptian verb 

 teju to be full, for the measuring of liciuiils, grains, etc., i.s effected by filling vases 

 possessed of certain cubic dimensions. 



t Derived from uka ukua to knock to piires. 



