The Indians also say that he "formed the earth out of a grain of sand taken from the bottom of the ocean." Does not this not only embody the tradition that God created the world out of nothing, but also the mode of the creation by the separation of the water from the land: ver. 9, "God also said, Let the waters that are under the heavens be gathered together in one place; and let the dry land appear.... And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called seas." [A] These hieroglyphics were symbolical of the four elements. Prescott adds--"It is not easy to see the connection between the terms 'rabbit' and 'air,' which lead the respective series." Possibly he may not have been aware of the tradition of the Algonquins as above. APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII. CARDINAL WISEMAN ("Lectures on Science and Religion," ii. 228-232), in speaking of what was characteristic of most Oriental religions--a belief "in the existence of emanated influences intermediate between the divine and earthly natures," is led on to give an account of the curious Gnostic sect, the Nazarians--"The first of these errors was common, perhaps, to other Gnostic sects; but in the Codex Nasaræus we have the two especially distinguished as different beings--light and life. In it the first emanation from God is the king of light; the second, fire; the third, water; the fourth, life." I wish to note that, whether or not their notions as to emanations originally meant more than the act of creation, a tradition as to the successive order of the creation seems clearly embodied in the text. God created first of all light; _then_ the sun (the firmament) is fire (the distinct creation of the light and the sun in Genesis is so marked as to create a special difficulty in the cosmogony); _then_ water; _then_ life, in beasts, birds, reptiles, &c.; lastly, man. Comp. with _supra_, p. 138, and with the above legend of Michabo. "A SLAVONIAN ACCOUNT OF CREATION.--The current issue of the Literary Society of Prague includes a volume of popular tales collected in all the Slavonian countries, and translated by M. Erben into Czech. We extract the shortest--'_In the beginning there was only God, and He lay asleep and dreamed._ At last it was time for Him to wake and look at the world. Wherever He looked through the sky, a star came out. He wondered what it was, and got up and began to walk. At last He came to our earth; He was very tired; the sweat ran down His forehead, and a drop fell on the ground. We are all made of this drop, and that is why we are the sons of God. Man was not made for pleasure; he was born of the sweat of God's face, and now he must live by the sweat of his own: that is why men have no rest.'"--_The Academy_, Feb. 12, 1870.