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American Hero-Myths

CHAPTER V
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They erected many temples to him, in which they placed his figure and image as described.
They also said that after a certain length of time there re-appeared another like this first one, or else he was the same, who also gave wise counsel and cured the sick.

He met disfavor, and at one spot the people set about to slay him, but he called down upon them fire from heaven, which burned their village and scorched the mountains into cinders.

Then they threw away their weapons and begged of him to deliver them from the danger, which he did[1].

He passed on toward the West until he reached the shore of the sea.

There he spread out his mantle, and seating himself upon it, sailed away and was never seen again.


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