(For Gods he fashioned as he formed the land,)

And bade him star with fires the azure sky,

And kindle the round blaze of Keesuckquand;

And then, to cheer by night the hunter’s eye,

Bright Nanapaushat sprung from Wamponand;

Thus with his will the manittoos comply,

And every region knows its deity.[6]

[6] See [note].

[XXIII.]

“All things thus were formed from what was good,