of his human children, calls his people together and makes known to them the joyous message:
"I will send a prophet to you,
A Deliverer of the nations,
Who shall guide you and shall teach you,
Who shall toil and suffer with you.
If you listen to his counsels,
You will multiply and prosper.
If his warnings pass unheeded,
You will fade away and perish!"
Gitche Manito, the Mighty, "the creator of the nations," is represented as he stood erect "on the great Red Pipestone quarry."
"From his footprints flowed a river,
Leaped into the light of morning,
O'er the precipice plunging downward
Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet."
The water flowing from his footsteps sufficiently proves the phallic nature of this creator. I refer to the earlier utterances concerning the phallic and fertilizing nature of the horse's foot and the horse's steps, and especially do I recall Hippocrene and the foot of Pegasus.[5] We meet with the same idea in Psalm lxv, vv. 9 to 11:
"Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou makest it very
plenteous.
"The river of God is full of water; thou preparest their corn, for so thou providest for the earth.
"Thou waterest her furrows: thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.
"Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness."
