[112] "The Chinese cosmogony speaks as follows of the creation of man--'God took some yellow earth, and He made man _en deux sexes_.'" This is the true origin of the human race. A Hebrew tradition says that it was of the red earth, which is the same idea. The Hebrew word "Adam" expresses this idea. This correspondence as to the manner in which the body of the first man was formed, between two people who have never had relations, is very remarkable. Indian and African cosmogonies relate that the name of the first man was 'Adimo,' that of his wife 'Hava,' and that they were the last work of the Creator."--Gainet, _La Bible sans la Bible_, i. p. 74. I must note, too, the identity of the American Indian (_supra_) and the Hebrew tradition, which is curious, as it might naturally be supposed that the tradition of the Red Indian took its _colour_ from his own complexion. Max Müller ("Lect. on the Science of Language," 1st series, p. 367) says of "man"--"The Latin word _homo_, the French _l'homme_, ... is _derived from the same root_, which we have in _humus_, soil, _humilis_, humble. _Homo_, therefore, would express the idea _of being made out of the dust of the earth_." Bunsen also ("Phil. Univ. Hist." i. 78) says--"The common word for man in all German dialects is 'manna,' containing the same root as Sanscrit 'manusha' and 'manueshya.' The Latin 'homo' is intimately connected with 'humus' and [Greek: chamai] and means _earth-born_; [Greek: anthrôpôn chamaigeneôn], says Pindar. But what is [Greek: anthrôpos]?" [113] "Last Rambles," p. 324. [114] The following tradition of the Tartar tribes seems to supply a link. In their tradition of the Deluge (_vide_ Gainet, i. 209) it is said, "that those who saved themselves from the Deluge shut themselves up with their provisions in the crevices of mountains, and that after the scourge had passed they came out of their caverns." And compare, again, with the tradition of Kronos (Noah, _vide_ Bryant's "Mythology," iii. 503)--"He is said to have had _three_ sons (Sanch. ap. Euseb. P. E., lib. i. c. 10, 37), and in a _time of danger_ he formed a _large cavern in the ocean_, and in this he shut himself up, together _with these sons_, and thus escaped the danger."--_Porph. de Nymphar. Antro._, p. 109.