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A female, for example, is held in special honor, and identified with Indian Corn, or Maize. Most of the All Night Dances refer in some way to her, as did some of the ceremonies in the Green Corn Festivals. A legend in relation to her will be given in the next section of our present chapter. A female called "The Woman fo the East" is also mentioned with much reverence. Allusion to her will be found in another part of our work. Thunder was adored; or rather, thunders, for there was supposed to be many stationed, or dwelling, in different places, each charged with a specific duty. A very exemplary Cherokee, after having fasted seven days, it is said went to the top of a stupendously high mountain, while it was thundering, - and there saw the Beings whence the thunder came. They paid a sort of veneration to the Morning Star, also; but rather as an object of fear. They say that long ago a very wicked conjurer committed murder by witchcraft. The Cherokee combined to slay him. Hearing of their purpose, the conjurer gathered his shining instruments of mischief and flew upward to a certain height, where, pausing, his apparatus made him seem a star. He then
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