[433.] He is the last remaining person. [[812]]
[434.] This is the method formerly used to “guess” the meaning of one’s dream.
[435.] It will be noted that most of the proper names in this story indicate reference to some process or object of nature.
[436.] This rising and falling of the sky appears as an incident in a number of other tales of this character.
[437.] This term is used as both noun and adjective; here it is used as a noun; it signifies, “What customarily uses its orenda or magic power destructively.”
[438.] This term refers to the Wind God whose activities earned for him the epithet, “Evil-minded.”
[439.] This form of the generic noun oñʹgweʻ signifies “The male Man-Being.”
[440.] This address is made as a part of the ceremonies at the harvest festival, commonly called the “Green Corn dance.” In this expression the word “green” stands for “new,” i.e., newly harvested corn.
[441.] This woman in the original story is Mother Earth. Here she has become the representative of the expression of Mother Earth—the offspring of her life-giving powers.
[442.] This appears to be a sort of parable teaching the virtue of gratefulness for what one receives of the bounties of nature on earth.