Their voices could shake the earth and their hands heap up mountains.

Like the thunder god, they stood on the hills and hurled their sling-stones to the four corners of the earth.
When one was overpowered he fled upward to the heaven or was turned into stone, and it was by their aid and counsel that the savages who possessed the land renounced their barbarous habits and commenced to till the soil.

There can be no doubt but that this in turn is but another transformation of the Protean myth we have so long pursued.[83-2] There are traces of the same legend among many other tribes of the continent, but the trustworthy reports we have of them are too scanty to permit analysis.

Enough that they are mentioned in a note, for it is every way likely that could we resolve their meaning they too would carry us back to the four winds.[83-3] Let no one suppose, however, that this was the only myth of the origin of man.

Far from it.