106, ed. Ternaux-Compans. This document is very valuable).
[120-1] _Narrative of John Tanner_, p. 355; Henry, _Travels_, p. 176.
[120-2] Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, lib. vi. cap. 31.
CHAPTER V.
THE MYTHS OF WATER, FIRE, AND THE THUNDER-STORM.
Water the oldest element.--Its use in purification.--Holy
water.--The Rite of Baptism.--The Water of Life.--Its symbols.--The
Vase.--The Moon.--The latter the goddess of love and agriculture,
but also of sickness, night, and pain.--Often represented by a
dog.--Fire worship under the form of Sun worship.--The perpetual
fire.--The new fire--Burning the dead.--A worship of the passions,
but no sexual dualism in myths, nor any phallic worship in
America.--Synthesis of the worship of Fire, Water, and the Winds in
the THUNDER-STORM, personified as Haokah, Tupa, Catequil, Contici,
Heno, Tlaloc, Mixcoatl, and other deities, many of them triune.
The primitive man was a brute in everything but the susceptibility to
culture; the chief market of his time was to sleep, fight, and feed; his
bodily comfort alone had any importance in his eyes; and his gods were
nothing, unless they touched him here.
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