[61-1] Discourse on the Religion of the Ind. Tribes of N. Am., p. 252 in the Trans. N. Y. Hist. Soc.
[61-2] Mueller, Amer. Urreligionen, pp. 265, 272, 274. Well may he remark: “The dualism is not very striking among these tribes;” as a few pages previous he says of the Caribs, “The dualism of gods is anything but rigidly observed. The good gods do more evil than good. Fear is the ruling religious sentiment.” To such a lame conclusion do these venerable prepossessions lead. “Grau ist alle Theorie.”
[62-1] Loskiel, Ges. der Miss. der evang. Brueder, p. 46.
[62-2] Whipple, Report on the Ind. Tribes, p. 33: Washington, 1855. Pacific Railroad Docs.
[62-3] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, i. p. 359.
[62-4] In Schoolcraft, Ibid., iv. p. 642.
[63-1] Or more exactly, the Beautiful Spirit, the Ugly Spirit. In Onondaga the radicals are onigonra, spirit, hio beautiful, ahetken ugly. Dictionnaire Français-Onontagué, édité par Jean-Marie Shea: New York, 1859.
[64-1] Squier, The Serpent Symbol in America.
[64-2] Both these legends will be analyzed in a subsequent chapter, and an attempt made not only to restore them their primitive form, but to explain their meaning.
[65-1] Compare the translation and remarks of Ximenes, Or. de los Indios de Guat., p. 76, with those of Brasseur, Le Livre Sacré des Quichés, p. 189.