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the land any more. Tirawa said there were other ways of destroying 
the people on the earth. There were several ways of sending storms so 
that they would kill the people. There was one thing that Tirawa was 
not sure of doing, and that was sending fire from the sky to burn up the 
people. The gods in the heavens who were placed by Tirawa would 
have to sit in council and select a day when all things would end, 
and decide in what way all things should cease to be. We are told 
by the old people that the Morning-Star ruled over all the minor gods 
in the heavens; that the Morning-Star and the Evening-Star gave life 
to people on this earth. The Sun and the Moon also helped to give 
life to the people. The old people told us that the Morning-Star said 
that when the time came for the world to end the Moon would turn 
red; that if the Moon should turn black it would be a sign that some 
great chief was to die; that when the Moon should turn red the people 
would then know that the world was coming to an end. The Sun was 
-also to shine bright and all at once that brightness would die out and the 
end would come. 
The Morning-Star also said that the signs would be made; that as they 
gave life to the people they could also hold life back, for they had not the 
say as to when the world should end. The Morning-Star said further that 
in the beginning of all things they placed the North Star in the north, 
so that it should not move; it was to watch over the other stars and over 
the people. The North Star is the one which is to end all things. The 
Morning-Star told the people that the North Star stood in the north and 
to its left was a pathway which led from north to south; that when a 
person died they were taken by the North Star and they were placed upon 
the pathway which led to the Star of Death—the land of the spirits—the 
South Star. | 
The Morning-Star also said that in the beginning of all things they 
gave power to the South Star for it to move up close, once in a while, to 
look at the North Star to see if it were still standing in the north. If 
it were still standing there it was to move back to its place. The 
Morning-Star spoke to the people and said that in the first great coun- 
cils when it was decided where each god should stand in the heavens, two 
of the people became sick. One was an old person and one a young per- 
son. They were placed upon stretchers, were carried by certain stars, 
and these two stretchers are tied on to the North Star. These two stretch- 
ers go around the North Star all the time.t The North Star continued 
to tell the people that whenever the South Star came up from the south 
it would come up higher; that when the time approached for the world to 
1Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. 
