Eskimo the word means eater of raw flesh and was a derrogatory term given to the Inuit who inhabited the coastline areas from Siberia to the Americas.
THE COMING OF MEN,
A LONG, LONG WHILE AGO
OUR forefathers have told us much of the coming
of earth, and of men, and it was a long, long while ago. Those who
lived long before our day, they did not know how to store their words in
little black marks, as you do; they could only tell stories. And they
told of many things, and therefore we are not without knowledge of these
things, which we have heard told many and many a time, since we were
little children.
Old women do not to waste their words idly, and we
believe what they say. Old age does not lie.
A long, long time ago, when the earth was to be made, it fell down
from the sky. Earth, hills and stones, all fell down from the sky, and
thus the earth was made. And then, when the earth was made, came men.
It is said that they came forth out of the earth. Little children
came out of the earth. They came forth from among the willow bushes, all
covered with willow leaves. And there they lay among the little bushes:
lay and kicked, for they could not even crawl. And they got their food
from the earth.
Then there is something about a man and a woman, but what of them?
It is not clearly known. When did they find each other, and when had
they grown up? I do not know. But the woman sewed, and made children's
clothes, and wandered forth. And she found little children, and dressed
them in the clothes, and brought them home. And in this way men grew to be many.
And being now so many, they desired to have dogs. So a man went out
with a dog leash in his hand, and began to stamp on the ground, crying
"Hok—hok—hok!" Then the dogs came hurrying out from the hummocks, and
shook themselves violently, for their coats were full of sand. Thus men
found dogs.
But then children began to be born, and men grew to be very many on
the earth. They knew nothing of death in those days, a long, long time
ago, and grew to be very old. At last they could not walk, but went
blind, and could not lie down.
Neither did they know the sun, but lived in the dark. No day ever
dawned. Only inside their houses was there ever light, and they burned
water in their lamps, for in those days water would burn.
But these men who did not know how to die, they grew to be too many,
and crowded the earth. And then there came a mighty flood from the sea.
Many were drowned, and men grew fewer. We can still see marks of that
great flood, on the high hill-tops, where mussel shells may often be
found.
And now that men had begun to be fewer, two old women began to speak thus:
"Better to be without day, if thus we may be without death," said the one. "No; let us have both light and death," said the other.
And when the old woman had spoken these words, it was as she had wished. Light came, and death. It is said, that when the first man died, others covered up the body
with stones. But the body came back again, not knowing rightly how to
die. It stuck out its head from the bench, and tried to get up. But an
old woman thrust it back, and said:
"We have much to carry, and our sledges are small."
For they were about to set out on a hunting journey. And so the dead one was forced to go back to the mound of stones.
And now, after men had got light on their earth, they were able to
go on journeys, and to hunt, and no longer needed to eat of the earth.
And with death came also the sun, moon and stars.
], He used him as a chariot [
] wherein to descend, and He wishes to be called after His form, which is the sacred name 'Yhwh'"
) indicate the first three purely spiritual Sefirot.
