_Animalization_ pervades the whole of the fabulous periods of history. It is to this mode of speech that we owe the fables of Pilpay and Esopus, where animals are made to speak. Whenever we meet in history or fables, animals acting like men and conversing, they are surely men, and often tribes individualized by an animal appellation: such as might be emblematic or patronymic, adopted honorable names, as lion, tyger, eagle; or else nicknames given in derision by foes, such as snake, dog, ape &c. Even the Hebrew had their _Cherubim_, who were beings like a man, a lion, ox, and eagle; who drove the Adamites from Eden. This name is preserved by the Turks in _Cherabi_ or _Chelabi_, which means _Lords_ in the old Turkish language of Turan or Tartary. Perhaps also in the _El-abi_, now Arabians, which meant _Angel-fathers_, or our forefathers the angelic men. _Elapi_ means _the most manly_ in Linapi! 18 The word _Olum_ is remarkable, because it is analogous to the OLEN, the legislator and teacher of Runes of the Celts. The writings of the Druids and Irish were called OCOL, CALLAN, OGHAM, the Irish OLAM were recorders and teachers. _Olum_ does not properly mean a writing, since _Leki_ is book, paper or letter in Linapi; but it implies _a record_, _a notched stick_, an engraved piece of wood or bark. It comes from _Ol_ hollow or graved record. Hekewelder says that _Oluma-pisid_ was in the 18th century, a king of the Linapis on the river Susquehanna, who kept the _Olum_ or records of the nation. It is probable these were part of them. 19 These actual _Olum_ were at first obtained in 1820, as a reward for a medical cure, deemed a curiosity; and were unexplicable. In 1822 were obtained from another individual the songs annexed thereto in the original language; but no one could be found by me able to translate them. I had therefore to learn the language since, by the help of Zeisberger, Hekewelder and a manuscript dictionary, on purpose to translate them, which I only accomplished in 1833. The contents were totally unknown to me in 1824, when I published my Annals of Kentucky; which were based on the traditions of Hekewelder, and those collected by me on the Shawanis, Miamis, Ottawas, &c. 20 This account of the creation is strikingly similar to the mosaic and oriental accounts; although it does not speak of days or _Yums_. The word for angels _Angelatawiwak_, is not borrowed, but real Linapi, put in the plural: thus the same as the Greek _Angelos_. _ 21 Jin-wis_ is the AISH or _Adam_ of all the Linapi tribes. W’IS is identic with ISH, W’ being the article _he_, WI added to words is common, meaning but _he_, _she_ and _they_, the plural _wak_ means _many_.