8. It looks bright, and islands stood there.--_Menak._
9. It was then, when again the _God-Creator_ made the makers or spirits.--_Manito-Manitoak._
10. And also the first beings _Owiniwak_, and also the angels _Angelatawiwak_, and also the souls _Chichankwak_, all them he made.(20)
11. And afterwards he made the man-being JIN-WIS, ancestor of the men.(21)
12. He gave him the first mother NETA-MIGAHO, mother of the first beings OWINI.(22)
13. And fishes he gave him, turtles he gave him, beasts he gave him, birds he gave him.
14. But there was a bad spirit _Makimani_, who caused the bad beings _Makowini_, black snakes _Nakowak_, and monsters or large reptiles _Amangamek_.
15. And caused also flies, and caused also gnats.
16. All the beings were then friends and stood there.
17. Thou being KIWIS, good God WUNAND (these are 2 gods) and the good makers or spirits were such.
18. With the Jins NIJINI, the first men, and the first mother, their wives, which were Fairies _Nantinewak_.(23)
19. The first food of the Jins and Fairies was a fat fruit _Gattamin_.
20. All were willingly-pleased, all were easy-thinking, and all were well-happified.
21. But after awhile a Snake-priest, _Powako_, brings on earth secretly the Snake worship _Initako_, of the god of the Snakes WAKON.(24)
22. And there came wickedness, crime and unhappiness.
23. And bad weather was coming, distemper was coming, with death was coming.
24. All this happened very long ago, at the first land _Netamaki_, beyond the great ocean _Kitahikan_.
1. There was long ago a powerful snake _Maskanako_, when the men had become bad beings _Makowini_.
2. This strong snake had become the foe of the Jins, and they became troubled, hating each other.
3. Both were fighting, both were spoiling, both were never peaceful.
4. And they were fighting, least man _Mattapewi_ with dead-keeper _Nihanlowit_.
5. And the strong snake readily resolved to destroy or fight the beings and the men.
6. The dark snake he brought, the monster (_Amangam_) he brought, snake rushing-water he brought.
7. Much water is rushing, much go to hills, much penetrate, much destroying.
8. Meantime at TULA, at that island, NAMA-BUSH (the great hare _Nana_) became the ancestor of beings and men.