[Footnote 5: See Brinton, Myths of the New World, for a philological theory.]
[Footnote 6: Compare 'The Fire Walk' in Modern Mythology.]
[Footnote 7: Compare St. Augustine's curious anecdote in De Cura pro
Mortuis habenda about the dead and revived Curio. The founder of the new
Sioux religion, based on hypnotism, 'died' and recovered.]
[Footnote 8: Cf. Demeter.]
[Footnote 9: Major North, for long the U.S. Superintendent of the Pawnees.]
[Footnote 10: Schoolcraft, iii. 237.]
[Footnote 11: As envisaged here, Nà-pi is not a spirit. The question of spirit or non-spirit has not arisen. So far, Nà-pi answers to Marrangarrah, the Creative Being of the Larrakeah tribe of Australians. 'A very good Man called Marrangarrah lives in the sky; he made all living creatures, except black fellows. He made everything…. He never dies, and likes all black fellows.' He has a demiurge, Dawed (Mr. Foelsche, apud Dr. Stirling, J.A.I., Nov. 1894, p. 191). It is curious to observe how savage creeds often shift the responsibility for evil from the Supreme Creator, entirely beneficent, on to a subordinate deity.]
[Footnote 12: Grinnell's Blackfoot Lodge-Tales and Pawnee Hero
Stories.]
[Footnote 13: Garcilasso, i. 101.]
[Footnote 14: Op. cit. i. 106.]