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mutilated by the mountain coming too quickly against it, at the com- 
mand of Good Mind. Admitting that he was now a subordinate, he 
agreed furthermore to drive away disease and pestilence and to 
defend men beings, who should be thereafter created, from malign 
influences. His face carved in wood, after certain propitiatory 
and invocatory ceremonies, was and still is used by the conserva- 
tive [roquois in their ceremonial events, particularly at the midwinter 
thanksgiving, when parties of masked figures go from house to house 
singing the magical songs deemed potent for this purpose. 
The Thunderer, Hi’’no™, was another of the great beings, but he 
appears in the second order of mythology, as a servant to Iouskeha. 
He occupies a high place in the category of Iroquois gods, so high a 
place that it is an open question whether or not the Great Being 
whom the Iroquois now address as Hawéfio’ is not identical with 
the Thunderer, though there is also.a recognition of the Thunderer 
as a separate being. The name Hawéfi'o’, apparently is derived 
from owén’a’ (voice) and i’o (good, great, majestic or beautiful). 
The initial Ha is the masculine sign. The name thus means He- 
great-voice. This alludes to the thunder. The Thunderer is a 
mighty being, the maker of rains. He wrinkles his brow and the 
thunder rolls; he winks his eyes and lightnings flash like arrows of 
fire. The Thunderer hates all evil spirits, and he is charged with ter- 
rorizing the otgont or malicious dwellers of the underworld to re- 
turn to.their cave. He seeks to slay the underwater serpents and 
all folk-beasts that would use evil magic. 
The beneficent earth god was T*haho™hiawa’ko", the light or 
elder twin of the Sky Woman’s daughter. He is variously called 
Iouskeha (Huron), Ha’ni‘go’io’, Good Mind, Elder Brother, and 
Sky Holder. It was he who watched at the grave of his mother, 
and discovered the food plants. It was he who set forth on the 
journey “to the East” and obtained from his father the power to 
tule. He made the earth habitable for man, obtained the mastery 
over Thunderer and the Whirlwind, and even made his grand- 
mother, Eia’tagé®’tci’ (Awé™ha’1‘) play the game of plum stones, 
the result of which should determine who should rule the earth. He 
animated his plum stone dice and gave them understanding, ordered 
them to arrange themselves as he directed, and thereby won the 
highest count in a single throw. This gave him mastery over his 
evil brother, Tawis’karo® (the icy or flinty one), for the grand- 
mother sympathized with this ugly twin brother of his. In the 
heaven world T‘haho™hiawa’’ko® now lives with his grandmother, 
in the reunited family of celestial beings, and although he grows very 
old he has the power of renewing himself at will, and exercises this 
