The face of the land was seamed and torn by the wrestling of the mighty combatants, and the Indians pointed out the huge boulders on the prairies as the weapons hurled at each other by the enraged brothers.

At length Michabo mastered his fellow twin and broke him into pieces.

He scattered the fragments over the earth, and from them grew fruitful vines.
A myth which, like this, introduces the flint stone as in some way connected with the early creative forces of nature, recurs at other localities on the American continent very remote from the home of the Algonkins.

In the calendar of the Aztecs the day and god Tecpatl, the Flint-Stone, held a prominent position.

According to their myths such a stone fell from heaven at the beginning of things and broke into sixteen hundred pieces, each of which became a god.