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It grows enormously and soon eats deer. Game is exhausted and 
the snake goes after human beings. 
44 White pebble. A white stone is given magical power and 
when thrown at a magical monster hits and kills it. 
45 flesh-eating water. The water of a magical lake eats the flesh 
from the bones of the unwary. Monsters living in it are immune. 
46 Sudden friend. The hero in a predicament sees a strange per- 
son before him who announces that he is a friend and will help the 
hero escape. He tells the hero what to do. 
Components of the Cosmological Myth 
1 Sky world. A world above the clouds inhabited by transcen- 
dent beings. 
2 Celestial tree. A wonderful tree in the center of the sky world. 
3 Sky woman. She falls through hole made by uprooted sky tree 
and brings a promised child with her. 
4 Primal turtle. He rises from the sea to receive the sky woman. 
5 Earth diver. Animals dive to secure earth for turtle’s back. 
6 World tree. This springs up from the root of the sky tree 
brought down by the sky woman. It grows in the “middle of the 
world.” Flowers of light. 
7 Female first born. A daughter soon born to the sky woman. 
Grows to quick maturity. 
8 Immaculate conception. Daughter conceives in mysterious 
manner. . 
9g Rival twins. Twins born to daughter. The warty, flint- 
hearted one kills his mother at birth. The fair one, the elder, 
watches her grave and finds corn, beans, squashes, potatoes and 
tobacco springing from it. The elder twin is constructive, the 
younger is destructive. 
10 Hoarded water. The evil twin causes a great frog to drink 
all the water of the earth. The good twin hits it with a stone caus- 
ing it to disgorge. 
11 Father search. ‘The good-minded twin searches for his father 
and finds him on a great mountain to the east. 
12 Son testing. Good Minded’s father tests him with wind, 
water, fire and rock. Good Minded proves his sonship and re- 
turns to the earth island with bags of animals. 
13 Man making. Good Minded molds man from clay after re- 
flections seen in water. | 
14 Primal beings return. Good Minded and grandmother return 
to sky. 
15 Evil banished. Evil Minded is placed in an underground 
cavern. 
