Each day the sun disappears in these waters, to rise again from them the succeeding morning.

As the approach of the sun causes the dawn, it was merely a gross way of stating this to say that the solar god was the father of his own mother, the husband of his grandmother.
[Footnote 1: I have analyzed these words in a note to another work, and need not repeat the matter here, the less so, as I am not aware that the etymology has been questioned.

See _Myths of the New World_, 2d Ed., p.
183, note.] The position of Ioskeha in mythology is also shown by the other name under which he was, perhaps, even more familiar to most of the Iroquois.

This is _Tharonhiawakon_, which is also a verbal form of the third person, with the dual sign, and literally means, "He holds (or holds up) the sky with his two arms."[1] In other words, he is nearly allied to the ancient Aryan Dyaus, the Sky, the Heavens, especially the Sky in the daytime.
[Footnote 1: A careful analysis of this name is given by Father J.A.

Cuoq, probably the best living authority on the Iroquois, in his _Lexique de la Langue Iroquoise_, p.