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driven off from him who now supplicates before thy throne, the power of the evil bewilderer of slumbering hearts; - and, in doing so, - for mine thou hast shown love. Continue that guardian love, Oh, Almighty One! - and suffer not my heart to fall away from its devotedness to thee!" a In the foregoing, something of the Sun Worship, as stated at the beginning of this section, would seem to be traceable; but with modifications: Here, for example, the Supreme Intelligence still directly supervises human affairs, which is not supposed in the earlier form. The other Beings who share with the RedMan, (The Sun) in the government of the earth, it is somewhat difficult to explain. It is found, however, and especially of late years, that almost every one of these in the nation who bears the name of Conjurer, forms his own mythology and falsifies the earlier. Thus us happens that the four beings just invoked as men, are sometimes prayed to as four dogs, - the great black dog of the west, - and so on. Various other fantastical imaginations are found among the Cherokee; from which


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