[223-1] _Vocabulario Quiche_, s. v., ed. Brasseur, Paris, 1862. [223-2] The Eskimo _innuk_, man, means also a possessor or owner; the yelk[TN-10] of an egg; and the pus of an abscess (Egede, _Nachrichten von Grönland_, p. 106). From it is derived _innuwok_, to live, life. Probably _innuk_ also means the _semen masculinum_, and in its identification with pus, may not there be the solution of that strange riddle which in so many myths of the West Indies and Central America makes the first of men to be "the purulent one?" (See ante, p. 135.) [224-1] Müller, _Amer. Urrelig._, pp. 109, 229. [224-2] D'Orbigny, _Frag. d'une Voy. dans l'Amér. Mérid._, p. 512. It is still a mooted point whence Shakspeare drew the plot of The Tempest. The coincidence mentioned in the text between some parts of it and South American mythology does not stand alone. Caliban, the savage and brutish native of the island, is undoubtedly the word Carib, often spelt Caribani, and Calibani in older writers; and his "dam's god Setebos" was the supreme divinity of the Patagonians when first visited by Magellan. (Pigafetta, _Viaggio intorno al Globo_, Germ. Trans.: Gotha, 1801, p. 247.) [224-3] Both Lederer and John Bartram assign it this meaning. Gallatin gives in the Powhatan dialect the word for mountain as _pomottinke_, doubtless another form of the same. [225-1] Marcy, _Exploration of the Red River_, p. 69. [226-1] Compare Romans, _Hist. of Florida_, pp. 58, 71; Adair, _Hist. of the North Am. Indians_, p. 195; and Gregg, _Commerce of the Prairies_, ii. p. 235. The description of the mound is by Major Heart, in the _Trans. of the Am. Philos. Soc._, iii. p. 216. (1st series.) [226-2] The French writers give for Great Spirit _coyocopchill_; Gallatin for hill, _kweya koopsel_. The blending of these two ideas, at first sight so remote, is easily enough explained when we remember that on "the hill of heaven" in all religions is placed the throne of the mightiest of existences. The Natchez word can be analyzed as follows: _sel_, _sil_, or _chill_, great; _cop_, a termination very frequent in their language, apparently signifying existence; _kweya_, _coyo_, for _kue ya_, from the Maya _kue_, god; the great living God. The Tarahumara language of Sonora offers an almost parallel instance. In it _regui_, is _above_[TN-11], up, over, _reguiki_, heaven, _reguiguiki_, a hill or mountain (Buschmann, _Spuren der Aztek. Sprache im nörd. Mexico_, p. 244). In the Quiché dialects _tepeu_ is lord, ruler, and is often applied to the Supreme Being. With some probability Brasseur derives it from the Aztec _tepetl_, mountain (_Hist. du Mexique_, i. p. 106). [227-1] Balboa, _Hist. du Pérou_, p. 4. [229-1] Long's _Expedition to the Rocky Mountains_, i. p. 274; Catlin's _Letters_, i. p. 178. [229-2] Richardson, _Arctic Expedition_, pp. 239, 247; Klemm, _Culturgeschichte der Menschheit_, ii. p. 316. [230-1] Long, _Exped. to the Rocky Mountains_, i. p. 326.