The American Nations, Vol. I. / Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South America

by C. S. Rafinesque

Tziri of Poconchi.

Huraqui, Sura of Apalachi.

Tiviri of the Yaquis.

Kiuras of the Powhatans.

Tarahu, of the Tarahumaras.

Prororu of Cumana, derived from Pregonero another subsequent devil of Hayti.

By the change of R to L, we have the Tulas and Atlantes of America.—See Taraguva of 10th Event.

5th Event. The good Zemis were appointed to make the earth and men, and to rule over both. Guabanzex, a female [pg 170] Zemis, made the air and water, and became the goddess of the ocean and winds.

This will answer to the first period of the earth creation, when the water was above the land, and the Rkio of Moses was divided. The name appears to mean the windy.[66]

6th Event. The male Zemis Jaia (Khaya, the earth) made the earth and islands; he is the Aion of Sanchoniation. Every land and island is animated. The island of Hayti was a great animal like a turtle; the head and mouth was in the east, the west end of it was a long tail, called Guaca-iarima (country of the Vent). The caves were the holes of the body, venerated and used afterwards as temples and tombs.