36 (p. 117).--A similar description of Ataentsic and Jouskeha is given by Sagard (_Canada_, Tross ed., pp. 452-455), from whom Brébeuf seems to have obtained part of the information given in the text--two sentences being the same, word for word, as in Sagard--an appropriation easily explained, in view of Brébeuf's recent arrival among the Hurons, and consequent difficulties in obtaining a knowledge of their beliefs. Sagard says that they told him that "this God Youskeha existed before this Universe, which, with all that was therein, he had created; that, although he grew old, like all things in this world, he did not lose his being and his power; and that, when he became old, he had power to rejuvenate himself in a moment, and to transform himself into a young man of twenty-five or thirty years; thus he never died, and remained immortal, although, like other human beings, he was to some extent subject to corporeal necessities." Lafitau (_Mœurs des Sauvages_, t. i., pp. 244, 401) also mentions Ataentsic--"the Queen of the Manes"--but names her grandson Tharonhiaouagon. Parkman thinks this latter personage (also written Tarenyowagon) was a divinity peculiar to the Iroquois Five Nations. Brinton discusses these legends at length in _American Hero-Myths_ (Phila., 1882), pp. 53-62; and also in _Myths of the New World_ (3rd ed.), pp. 156, 203-205; in the latter work, he considers that Taronhiawagon was but Jouskeha (Ioskeha) under another name, and explains the stories of all these deities as myths of the Sun and Moon, of Night and Day, of the conflict between light and darkness. Cf. Parkman's _Jesuits_, lxxv.-lxxvii., and the outline of Huron cosmogony given by Hale in _Jour. Amer. Folk-Lore_, vol. i., pp. 177-183; see also Cusick's account of the creation, in Beauchamp's _Iroquois Trail_, pp. 1-5. 37 (p. 121).--For references on the subject of the immortality of souls, see vol. vi., _note_ 17.