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Updated: October 27, 2025
To grow strong and wise one must swim in the natural rivers, the mountain torrents, the sea, just as the Sagalie Tyee made them.
People who are wilfully evil, who have no kindness in their hearts, who are bloodthirsty, cruel, vengeful, unsympathetic, the Sagalie Tyee turns to solid stone that will harbor no growth, even that of moss or lichen, for these stones contain no moisture, just as their wicked hearts lacked the milk of human kindness.
"I shall not stop, nor yet go ashore," he declared, striking out once more to the middle of the channel. "Do you dare disobey us," they cried "we, the men of the Sagalie Tyee? We can turn you into a fish, or a tree, or a stone for this; do you dare disobey the Great Tyee?" "I dare anything for the cleanliness and purity of my coming child.
They cannot have both. The Sagalie Tyee has revealed to us, the great men of magic, that both these things will make the people arrogant and selfish. They must choose between the two. "'Choose, oh! you ignorant tribes-people, commanded the Great Tyee.
But after the chiefs and medicine-men had done all in their power, and still the salt-chuck oluk lay across the waters, a handsome boy of sixteen approached them and reminded them of the words of the Sagalie Tyee, 'that he that pierced the monster's heart would kill the disease of greed forever amongst his people. "'Let me try to find this evil heart, oh! great men of my tribe, he cried.
Let each of them throw a stone with some intent, some purpose in their hearts. He who makes the noblest mark may call me wife. "'Alas! Alas! wailed the Haida mother. 'This casting of stones does not show worth. It but shows prowess. "'But I have implored the Sagalie Tyee of my father, and of his fathers before him, to help me to judge between them by this means, said the girl.
Both factions danced, chanted, burned their magic powders, built their magic fires, beat their magic rattles, but neither would give way, yet neither conquered. About them, on the waters, on the mainlands, raged the warfare of their respective tribes the Sagalie Tyee had forgotten His Indian children. "After many months, the warriors on both sides weakened.
"'Oh, you evil one with the unkind heart, cried the Four Men, 'you have been too great a god for even the Sagalie Tyee to obliterate you forever, but you shall live on, live now to serve, not to hinder mankind. You shall turn into stone where you now stand, and you shall rise only as men wish you to.
"Then the Sagalie Tyee smiled on His Indian children: 'I will make these young-eyed maidens immortal, He said. In the cup of His hands He lifted the chief's two daughters and set them forever in a high place, for they had borne two offspring Peace and Brotherhood each of which is now a great Tyee ruling this land.
He did all this to reveal his powers, for he was cruel and hard of heart, and he would laugh and defy the Sagalie Tyee, and looking up to the sky he would call, 'See how powerful I am, how mighty, how strong; I am as great as you.
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