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As in the myth preserved by Aristophanes in the 'Birds, the Australians believe that birds were the original gods, and the eagle, especially, is a great creative power. The Moon was a mischievous being, who walked about the world, doing what evil he could. One day he swallowed the eagle-god. The wives of the eagle came up, and the Moon asked them where he might find a well.
The individuals of every species are supposed to have descended from an ancient being a progenitor of the race; and so they have a grizzly-bear god, an eagle-god, a rattlesnake-god, a trout-god, a spider-god a god for every species and variety of animal. By these animal gods all things were established.
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