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Just then the bait was let down again near to the king, and Manabozho was heard crying out "Me-she-nah-ma-gwai, take hold of my hook." The king-fish did so, and allowed himself to be dragged to the surface, which he had no sooner reached than he swallowed Manabozho and his canoe at one gulp. When Manabozho came to himself he found he was in his canoe in the fish's stomach.
At last he cried out: "Father, since you will know, it is the root of the bulrush." He who could with perfect ease spin a sentence a whole day long, seemed to be exhausted by the effort of pronouncing that one word, "bulrush." Some time after, Manabozho observed: "I will get some of the black rock, merely to see how it looks."
These legends are far too numerous, they are too similar to each other, they are too manifestly symbolical, to admit of any such interpretation. By comparing them carefully with each other, and with correlative myths of the Old World, their true character soon becomes apparent. One of the most widely famous of these culture-heroes was Manabozho or Michabo, the Great Hare.
Come along!" And away sped the old wolf at a great rate of speed. "Not so fast," called Manabozho after him; and then he added to himself as he panted after, "Oh, this tail!" Coming to a place where the moose had lain down, they saw that the young wolves had made a fresh start after their prey. "Why," said the old wolf, "this moose is poor.
Manabozho was the first to strike hurling a great piece of the black rock, which struck the West directly between the eyes, who returned the favor with a blow of bulrush, that rung over the shoulders of Manabozho, far and wide, like the whip-thong of the lightning among the clouds.
And as he went away he made himself visible once more, and a light beamed about his head and lit the air around him with a strange splendor; a circumstance which Manabozho, who was at times quite thick-headed and dull of apprehension, could no way understand. When Dais-Imid returned home, he told his sister that the time drew nigh when they must separate.
It was only by immense leaps to right and left that Manabozho could save his head from the sturdy blows which fell about him on every side, like pine-trees, from the hands of the Manito. He was badly bruised, and at his very wit's end, when a large woodpecker flew past and lit on a tree. It was a bird he had known on the prairie, near his grandmother's lodge.
Manitou and Oki meant anything endowed with supernatural powers, from a snake-skin, or a greasy Indian conjurer, up to Manabozho and Jouskeha. The idea that each race of animals has its archetype or chief would easily suggest the existence of a supreme chief of the spirits or of the human race, a conception imperfectly shadowed forth in Manabozho. The Jesuit missionaries seized this advantage.
The story of Hiawatha known about the lakes as Manabozho and in the East as Glooskapis the most widely disseminated of the Indian legends.
But the West insisted "There must be something you are afraid of." "Well, I will tell you," says Manabozho, "what it is." He made an effort to speak, but it seemed to be too much for him. "Out with it," said Ningabiun, or the West, fetching Manabozho such a blow on the back as shook the mountain with its echo. "Je-ee, je-ee it is," said Manabozho, apparently in great pain. "Yeo, yeo!
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