37/43 Both these terms are undoubtedly of native origin. In the Quiche legends the Supreme Being is called _Bitol_, the substantive form of _bit_, to make pottery, to form, and _Tzakol_, substantive form of _tzak_, to build, the Creator, the Constructor. The Arowacks of Guyana applied the term _Aluberi_ to their highest conception of a first cause, from the verbal form _alin_, he who makes (Martius, _Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika's_, i.p. 696). 403. |