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    “After ages had elapsed, Tseh-stah came back to Yooh-wah-tah-yoh. He said the work was done, and that it was yet too new for use. They could not go out until the Earth was ripened by the Sun.

     “From the point of the Yooh-wah-tah-yoh where the Wyandots were, a glimmering of light could be seen, and Tseh-stah went forth from the Yooh-wah-tah-yoh by the small opening. He looked about the whole of the Great Island. He saw it was indeed ready to receive the people for whom it had been created, and for whom all the work of Nature cried out both day and night. He returned to the Yooh-wah-tah-yoh where sat the Woman who fell down from heaven with her torch of fire given by Heh-noh, the Thunder God. He announced to his Mother that the world cried aloud for her children. She said to him: ‘My son, lead them forth in the Order of Precedence and Encampment. They shall come to me on their journey to the land of the Little People.’

     “Then Tseh-stah caused the Earth to quake and to rock to its foundation. Heh-noh shook the heavens and rolled over the Great Waters with his Thunder. All the sky flamed with his fiery darts. The great Yooh-wah-tah-yoh was rent asunder. A nation stood marshaled to go forth. They marched to the waiting world. The hills, the waters, the beasts, the trees, the birds, and the fishes cried out with welcome to the nation born of the earth in a day. They found the earth decked with flowers, and songs of joy poured out from the forests filled with happy birds.

     “They found some of the people of Tah-weh-skah-reh still living on the Great Island. Their preservation is not accounted for.

     “Here ends the Song of the Creation, as sung by Captain Bull-Head and William Big-Town."

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The following information can be found on pages 14-19 & 107-112 of William R. Palmer's book "WHY THE NORTH STAR