[115.] This paragraph shows plainly a reminiscence of the defeat of the forces of Winter by the powers of the Spring, evidenced in the thawing and sweating of ice and snow banks.
[116.] This description of the Whirlwind applies well to the wooden masks which represent the Wind Powers.
[117.] This statement emphasizes the constant taboo against women seeing or touching the utensils and implements and medicines which belong strictly to the activities of the men.
[118.] In story-telling the white deer is ever endowed with superior orenda or magic power.
[119.] The devices employed in this and the several following paragraphs for deceiving pursuing enemies are not peculiar to this story.
[120.] The Toad.
[121.] The Crow.
[122.] The Fox.
[123.] These birds were the great ancestral Man-Beings of a mythic past cosmic age; a study of the language of this paragraph shows this to be a statement of the action of great nature forces. The next three paragraphs will bear out this remark. Blood is obtained from a mythic cornstalk.
[124.] Here the singing of the birds is made the sign of the exercise of the orenda of these animals to bring about Springtime; and this orenda is declared to be efficacious.