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Updated: May 1, 2025
The lobster eyes were like a living coal. Chemanitou opened the side of the image, but he did not enter. He had given it hands and a chin. It could smile like the manitoes themselves. He made it walk all about the island of Metowac, that he might see how it would act. This he did by means of his will. He now put a little life into it, but he did not take out the fire.
Chemanitou saw the aspect of the creature would be very terrible, and yet that it could smile in such a manner that it ceased to be ugly. He thought much upon these things. He felt that it would not be best to let such a creature live a creature made up mostly from the beasts of the field, but with hands of power, a chin lifting the head upward, and lips holding all things within themselves.
Chemanitou then lifted up a piece of the back, and found it made a very good cavity, into which the old creations which failed to please him might be thrown.
While he thought upon these things he took the image in his hands and cast it into the cave. But Chemanitou forgot to take out the life. The creature lay a long time in the cave and did not stir, for its fall was very great. It lay amongst the old creations that had been thrown in there without life. Now when a long time had passed Chemanitou heard a great noise in the cave.
A vulture swooped down with a great noise of its wings, and made a dash at the beak, but Chemanitou held it back. Then came the porcupine, the lizard, and the snake, each drawn by its kind in the image. Chemanitou veiled his face for many hours, and the gusty wind swept by, but he did not stir.
The manitoes crowded to Metowac to see what was the matter. Chemanitou came also, for he remembered the image he had cast in there of which he had forgotten to take away the life. Suddenly there was a great rising of the stones and sand, the sky grew black with wind and dust. Fire played about on the ground, and water gushed high into the air.
The Puck-wud-jinnies especially made themselves very merry, capering behind its great ears, sitting within its mouth, each perched upon a tooth, and running in and out of the sockets of the eyes, thinking Chemanitou, who was finishing off other parts of the animal, would not see them. But he can see right through everything he has made.
It is well known that some of these early creations were of very great size, so that very few could live in the same place, and their strength made it difficult for even Chemanitou to control them, for when he has given them certain powers they have the use of the laws that govern those powers, till it is his will to take them back to himself.
He looked in and saw the image sitting there, and it was trying to put together the old broken things that had been cast in as of no value. Chemanitou gathered together a vast heap of stones and sand, for large rocks are not to be had upon the island, and stopped the mouth of the cave. Many days passed and the noise within the cave grew louder. The earth shook, and hot smoke came from the ground.
He had never given hands to any creature. He made the arms and the hands very beautiful, after the manner of his own. Chemanitou now took no pleasure in the work he had done. It was not good in his sight. He wished he had not given it hands. Might it not, when trusted with life, create? Might it not thwart the plans of the Master of Life himself? He looked long at the image.
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