A god! say the Indians.
Taking the account as it stands, it appears that an incarnated god (in the shape of the Shao Hao Mu) was at one time within the Grand Canyon (which still retains his "lute.")
Notice that the "country contiguous to the mighty chasm is called the "Shao Hao's country."
Next observe that the vast chasm (or ta-hoh) is itself called the Great Canyon of the Incarnated God (or Keang Shang.) Shang stands for "Heaven" or supreme;" and Keang signifies "to descend from a higher level, to come from the sky, to fall as rain, to come into the world as Christ did" (Williams.) The contiguous country is named in honor of the Shao Hao, or sun-child, who is called a shan or god. And "Keang Shang's ta-hoh" or great Canyon is also named in honor of this shan or god—this incarnated god.
And here, "in the region beyond the Eastern Sea," the land is ringing with his name. He was Mu or Mo-te and a builder of forts, and above and beyond all this he was an incarnation of the Great Spirit!
"The name, at this moment, is as familiar to every Indian, Apache and Navajoe as that of our Savior or Washington is to us" (n. 89.)
Bancroft says: "Under restrictions, we may fairly regard him as the Melchizedek, the Moses, and the Messiah of the Pueblo desert-wanderers from an Egypt that history is ignorant of, and whose name even tradition whispers not."
A Messiah and Demigod! say the Chinese.
A Messiah and Demigod! say Americans.
Bancroft, says, that according to Indian paintings or traditions, the Messiah or Demigod of Pueblo tradition had red or yellow hair.