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lie expresses to e< the heart of heaven.” Afterwards the work 
proceeds, the course of the waters is divided, the streams wind 
amongst the mountains, and the plains and the little hills are 
formed and the world is filled with the varied tribes of living 
creatures. “The heart of the earth” seems to be the serpent 
and also the maternal principle, whilst “ the heart of heaven ” 
is the father * and the Architect. 
The description of the creation is elaborate and picturesque. 
Then comes the command that the creatures formed should 
utter the name of the Divinity. “ Honour us, your Father 
and Mother.” 
The response to this was in the inarticulate language 
proper to each species, so that “ the heart of heaven ” and 
“ the heart of earth ” found that no honour would accrue 
from their work. They were obliged to try again. This 
time they made man of potter’s earth. These creatures, how- 
ever, though they had speech, had no intelligence, and appa- 
rently were drowned in the waters. Then followed another 
consultation and an attempt to make a really intelligent 
creature, that should “ adore and invoke the Creator and 
the Former.” The result was the formation of mannikins 
from sculptured wood which spoke and reasoned on the 
face of the earth. These existed and multiplied, but they 
had no heart to remember their Creator, and lived like 
beasts. 
Then the waters were swollen by the will of the Heart of 
Heaven, and a great deluge ensued, which came above the 
head of these mannikins made out of wood; because they 
had not thought of their mother and their father, of him who 
is the heart of heaven, whose name is Hurakan;f through 
them the face of the earth was obscured and a dark rain com- 
menced, rain by day, rain by night ; everything rebelled 
against these ungrateful people, and even their dogs turned 
to devour them. Filled with despair and lamentations, they 
wished to rush to the top of their houses, and the houses 
crumbling threw them again to earth ; they wished to climb 
the trees, and the trees shook them far from them. They 
wished to enter into caverns, and the caverns closed before 
them. 
Thus was accomplished the ruin of these human creatures. 
Now it is said their posterity is seen in those little monkeys 
which live in the woods. It is all that remains of them, for 
their flesh was formed of wood by the modeller and creator. 
* In the old Accadian conjurations the Spirit of Heaven and the Spirit 
of the Earth are conjointly addressed. See Lenormant, La Magie. 
t From which word the Spaniards derived Hurricane. 
