In due course of time these eggs opened and from them came forth five falcons, who were none other than the Creator of all things, Pariacaca, and his brothers, the four winds.

By their magic power they transformed themselves into men and went about the world performing miracles, and in time became the gods of that people.[1] [Footnote 1: Doctor Francisco de Avila, _Narrative of the Errors and False Gods of the Indians of Huarochiri_ (1608).

This interesting document has been partly translated by Mr.C.B.Markham, and published in one of the volumes of the Hackluyt Society's series.] These striking similarities show with what singular uniformity the religious sense developes itself in localities the furthest asunder.
Returning to Michabo, the duplicate nature thus assigned him as the Light-God, and also the God of the Winds and the storms and rains they bring, led to the production of two cycles of myths which present him in these two different aspects.

In the one he is, as the god of light, the power that conquers the darkness, who brings warmth and sunlight to the earth and knowledge to men.

He was the patron of hunters, as these require the light to guide them on their way, and must always direct their course by the cardinal points.
The morning star, which at certain seasons heralds the dawn, was sacred to him, and its name in Ojibway is _Wabanang_, from _Waban_, the east.