"As to the creation, they teach that a certain Big Man began by making the _naked earth, silent and bleak_, with nothing of plant or animal thereon, save one Indian, who roamed about _in a wofully hungry and desolate state_. Suddenly there arose a terrible whirlwind, _the air grew dark and thick with dust and drifting sand_, and the Indian fell upon his face in sore dread. Then there came a great calm, and the man rose and looked, and lo, all the earth was perfect and peopled; the grass and the trees were green on every plain and hill; the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the creeping things, the things that swim, moved everywhere in his sight."[1] Here, as often happens, the impressive facts are remembered, but in a disarranged chronological order. There came a whirlwind, thick with dust, the clay-dust, and drifting sand and gravel. It left the world naked and lifeless, "silent and bleak"; only one Indian remained, and he was dreadfully hungry. But after a time all this catastrophe passed away, and the earth was once more populous and beautiful. In the Peruvian legends, Apocatequil was the great god who saved them from the powers of the darkness. He restored the light. He produced the lightning by hurling stones with his sling. The thunder-bolts are _small, round, smooth stones_.[2] The stone-worship, which played so large a part in antiquity, was doubtless due to the belief that many of the stones of the earth had fallen from heaven. Dr. Schwarz, [1. Bancroft's "Native Races," vol. iii, p. 86. 2. Brinton's "Myths of the New World," p. 165.] {p. 257} of Berlin, has shown that the lightning was associated in popular legends _with the serpent_. "When the lightning kindles the woods it is associated with the _descent of fire from heaven_, and, as in popular imagination, where it falls it scatters the thunderbolts in all directions, _the flint-stones_, which flash when struck, were supposed to be these fragments, and gave rise to the stone-worship so frequent in the old world."[1] In Europe, in old times, the bowlders were called devil-stones; they were supposed. to have originated from "the malevolent agency of man's spiritual foes." This was a reminiscence of their real source. The reader will see (page 173, _ante_) that the Iroquois legends represent the great battle between the _White One_, the sun, and the _Dark One_, the comet. The _Dark One_ was wounded to death, and, as it fled for life, "the blood gushed from him at every step, and as it fell _turned into flint-stones_." Here we have the red clay and the gravel both represented. Among the Central Americans the flints were associated with Hurakan, Haokah, and Tlaloe {_Tlaloc?--jbh_}, the gods of storm and thunder: