Story: Birth of Manabus. Skinner also provides cross-references.
Characters: Mate Hawatuk (Supreme God), Masakomekokiu (Earth / earth-mother, grandmother), Pitakamikokiu (Masakomekokiu's daughter, mother of Manabus), the winds, Manabus (rabbit)
Plot (this is the abstract provided by Skinner): Great Spirit creates world by placing islands in the waters. Moulds earth and makes Jesus for ruler of one island, and Manabus for the other. (b) Our grandmother, the earth, takes a bowl and turns it upside down and waits until her daughter comes into being beneath it. (c) The Four Gods Beneath enter the body of daughter to be born in human shape, but cause her to burst. Grandmother places fragments under bowl, and then becomes a little rabbit, which afterwards is Manabus. (d) His tracks, as a man, are to be seen in the rock on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Plot (this is the abstract provided by Skinner): Great Spirit creates world by placing islands in the waters. Moulds earth and makes Jesus for ruler of one island, and Manabus for the other. (b) Our grandmother, the earth, takes a bowl and turns it upside down and waits until her daughter comes into being beneath it. (c) The Four Gods Beneath enter the body of daughter to be born in human shape, but cause her to burst. Grandmother places fragments under bowl, and then becomes a little rabbit, which afterwards is Manabus. (d) His tracks, as a man, are to be seen in the rock on the shores of Lake Michigan.
God creates Jesus who is Manabozho's brother:
Then he took up some earth like wax and moulded in his hand the image of a human being. Then he blew his breath four times upon it and it came to life and it was his son, Jesus. He placed him across the great waters on the other islands and old German country and gave them to him to protect and rule. Then the Supreme God took up red clay, made a tiny image and blew his breath upon it four times. The last time he blew life into the clay and made Mänäbus, his servant, to protect this island and his grandmother's people and he decreed that Jesus and Mä'näbus should be friends and brothers, each to remain on his separate island and to take care of his people. All went well until Columbus crossed the ocean and brought his poor bitter smoking tobacco. Then everything began to conflict so that now no one in this world can ever understand it.
Then he took up some earth like wax and moulded in his hand the image of a human being. Then he blew his breath four times upon it and it came to life and it was his son, Jesus. He placed him across the great waters on the other islands and old German country and gave them to him to protect and rule. Then the Supreme God took up red clay, made a tiny image and blew his breath upon it four times. The last time he blew life into the clay and made Mänäbus, his servant, to protect this island and his grandmother's people and he decreed that Jesus and Mä'näbus should be friends and brothers, each to remain on his separate island and to take care of his people. All went well until Columbus crossed the ocean and brought his poor bitter smoking tobacco. Then everything began to conflict so that now no one in this world can ever understand it.
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