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Moon. From this New Moon time is reckoned  
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a. [[superscript[[ Nettle: - Nutsawi, Pine Log.
a. [[superscript]] Nettle: - Nutsawi, Pine Log.

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6 Section the Second Historical + Moral Traditions represented line underlined as having been received from professors of the Early line underlined and Orthodox Cherokee Religion: line underlined

It may be proper, here, very emphatically to repeat, what we have stated elsewhere, that the highly respectable ancients of the Cherokee, from whom the following fragments have been derived, gave them at different times and places. No one of the relators knew what had been mentioned by another; nor had even the same communicator of several detached clauses, the slightest notion of their ever having been broken off from a connected series of records either oral or written. We now proceed to recite what we have thus collected. The Three Beings Above, employed seven days in the work of creation. superscript a above final word The world was created at the commencement of the autumnal new moon, with the fruits all ripe. Hence that moon begins the year, and is called the Great Moon. From this New Moon time is reckoned as a. superscript Nettle: - Nutsawi, Pine Log.