The
worms were then collected and scattered again. They matured into infants
and these were then collected and scattered and became full-grown
Dakotas. The bones of the mastodon, the Dakotas think, are the bones of
_Unktehees_, and they preserve them with the greatest care in the
medicine-bag." _Neill's Hist. Minn_., p. 55. The _Unktehees_ and the
Thunder-birds are perpetually at war. There are various accounts of the
creation of man. Some say that at the bidding of the _Great Unktehee_,
men sprang full grown from the caverns of the earth. See _Riggs' "Tahkoo
Wahkan"_, and _Mrs. Eastman's Dacotah_. The _Great Unktehee_ and the
Great Thunder-bird had a terrible battle in the bowels of the earth to
determine which should be the ruler of the world. See description in
_Winona_.
[70] Pronounced _Ahng-pay-too-wee_--The Sun; literally the Day-Sun, thus
distinguishing him from _Han-ye-tuwee_ (Hahng-yay-too-wee) the Night Sun
(the moon). They are twin brothers, but _Anpetuwee_ is the more
powerful. _Han-ye-tuwee_ receives his power from his brother and obeys
him. He watches over the earth while the sun sleeps. The Dakotas believe
the sun is the father of life.
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