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32 another course. Soon after the creation, it is said, one of the family was bitten by a Serpent, and died. All possible means were used to bring back his life, but in vain. Being overcome in this first instance, the whole race were doom -ed to follow, not only to death, but to eter- -nal misery. These Beings, having created the earth, the man and woman, then made the Sun and Moon and constituted them Gods, to have the entire control and management of every thing then made, and proceed in the work, till the creation was complete. These beings, having employed seven days in their work, returned to t heir own place above, and paid no farther attention to the earth they had created. Of their place above, no one has any knowledge but themselves. It was by others declared that the Supreme Creators, having in seven days created the Sun and Moon and given form to the earth, returned to their own abode on high, - a place known only to them- -selves, - where they remain in entire rest, - leaving the Sun and Moon to finish and to rule the world, about which they gave themselves no farther concern. Hence whenever the believers in this system offer a prayer to their Creator, they mean, by the Creator, either the Sun or Moon. As to which of