4^ ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 
first part having been printed in the Twenty-first Annual Report of 
the bureau. The copying of the pencil text was completed, aggre- 
gating 316 typewritten pages. This includes the supplementary 
myth of much later date than the accompanying version of the Myth 
of the Beginnings. The most interesting feature of the supplemen- 
tary myth is the naive description of one of the most remarkable 
figures developed by the cosmic thinking of Iroquoian poets. This 
potent figure, in whose keeping are life and the endless interchange 
of the seasons, is most striking in his external aspect — one side of liis 
body being composed of living flesh and the other of crystal ice. In 
the longer preceding myth, to which this is supplemental, the Master 
of Life is an independent personage, and so also is his noted brother, 
the Master of Winter, the Winter God, whose body is composed of 
crystal ice. The Life God, or Master of Life, controlled the sum- 
mer, and his brother, the Winter God, controlled the winter. So in 
this peculiar figure there appears the inceptive fusing together of two 
hitherto independent gods who were brothers because they dwelt 
together in space and time. 
This remarkable figure is, in fact, the symbol of the absorption of 
the pereonality — the functions and activities — of the Master of 
Winter (the Winter God) by the Master of Life and his powerful 
aids, manifested in the power of the Master of Life (the Life God) 
to save and to protect from dissolution and death his many wards, 
all living things that comprise faunal and floral life. This fact 
emerges from the experience of the human race from year to year. 
This submergence of one divine personality in that of another is a 
process of cosmic thinking encountered in the mythic philosophy of 
other races. This figure, as described in this text, is worthy of inten- 
sive study by the student of comparative mythology and religion. 
The pencil texts of these myths aggregate 1,057 pages and the type- 
written 316 pages. The tentative draft of the free translations of 
these texts aggregates 250 pages of typewriting. Some work was 
also done in supplying the first text with a literal interlinear trans- 
lation. This will be ready for the press at an early date. 
Mr. Hewitt also continued work on his league material, in which 
he completed the copying of the corrected and amended native text 
of the tradition of the founding of the Iroquois League, or Confedera- 
tion by Deganawida, making 189 typewritten pages, and also the 
amended and corrected text of the Chant of the Condoling and 
Installation Council, detailing some of the fundamental laws of the 
league ; this occupies 13 pages. 
Upon request, Mr. Hewitt also submitted an article on the League 
of the Iroquois and Its Constitution for the Annual Report of the 
Smithsonian Institution ; it occupies 30 typewritten pages. 
