Tiele, _History of the Egyptian Religion_, pp.
84-86.] The signification of the conflict with his twin brother is also clearly seen in the two names which the latter likewise bears in the legends.

One of these is that which I have given, _Tawiscara_, which, there is little doubt, is allied to the root, _tiokaras_, it grows dark.

The other is _Tehotennhiaron_, the root word of which is _kannhia_, the flint stone.
This name he received because, in his battle with his brother, the drops of blood which fell from his wounds were changed into flints.[1] Here the flint had the same meaning which I have already pointed out in Algonkin myth, and we find, therefore, an absolute identity of mythological conception and symbolism between the two nations.
[Footnote 1: Cuoq, _Lexique de la Langue Iroquoise_, p.

180, who gives a full analysis of the name.] Could these myths have been historically identical?
It is hard to disbelieve it.

Yet the nations were bitter enemies.