It grieves me to see the pestilence that is destroying my people, and I come to teach you its cause and its remedy.
Its cause is the presence of these strangers; and its remedy is to drive out these black robes (the missionaries), to drink of a certain water which I shall tell you of, and to hold a festival in my honor, which must be kept up all night, until the dawn of day." The home of Ioskeha is in the far East, at that part of the horizon where the sun rises.

There he has his cabin, and there he dwells with his grandmother, the wise Ataensic.

She is a woman of marvelous magical power, and is capable of assuming any shape she pleases.

In her hands is the fate of all men's lives, and while Ioskeha looks after the things of life, it is she who appoints the time of death, and concerns herself with all that relates to the close of existence.

Hence she was feared, not exactly as a maleficent deity, but as one whose business is with what is most dreaded and gloomy.
It was said that on a certain occasion four bold young men determined to journey to the sun-rising and visit the great Ioskeha.