THE FIRST PERIOD: CREATION. 
1, THE FIRST CREATION.* 
In the times of the beginning there was no sun, no stars, nor any- 
thing else as it is now. Time passed on. Man-never-known-on-Earth 
(Kinnekasus) was the only man that existed, and he it was who created 
all things. When the earth was created it was composed of land and 
water, but they were not yet separated. The land was floating on the 
water, and darkness was everywhere. After the earth was formed, 
Man-never-known-on-Earth made a man whose name was Having- 
Power-to-carry-Light (Kiarsidia). He also made a woman for the 
man, and her name was Bright-Shining-Woman (Kashatskihakatidise). 
After the man and the woman were made they dreamed that things 
were made for them, and when they woke they had the things of which 
they had dreamed. Thus they rreceived everything they needed. The 
woman was given an ear of corn, whose use she did not know, but this 
was revealed to her in her heart; that it was to be her food; that it was 
Mother-Corn ; that it was to be the food of the people who should exist 
in the future, to be used generation after generation; that from Mother- 
Corn the people should be nursed. Still they were in darkness, not 
knowing what was better than darkness. 
Once upon a time it came into the mind of Having-Power-to-carry- 
Light that he should go toward the east. He went further and further, 
not knowing where or why, but still wanting to find out what he was 
after. He kept on until he came to a grass-lodge. He found somebody 
existing on the earth besides himself. As the entered the grass-lodge 
there 'was light. He saw the man of the grass-lodge. This man of the 
grass-lodge said to him: “Well, I have brought you here. I put it 
in your mind to come this way and visit me. Therefore, you are here, 
and I am told to tell you of some things that are to come to pass. You 
have always thought you were the only person living, but I am here 
too. I have been created the same as you. ‘The man that creates things 
is about to improve our condition. Villages shall spring up and more 
people will exist, and you will have power to teach the people how to 
do things before unknown to them.” While they were talking they heard 
a voice from the east, saying: “Hurry, you men in the grass-lodge! 
Come out with your arrows and shoot the deer that are now starting 
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