Elsewhere the writer says: "Tout d'abord je dois rappeler mon observation que presque toujours, dans les traditions Dene, le couple primitif se compose de _deux freres_." Ibid., p.

62.] In another myth of this stock, clearly a version of the former, this father of the race is represented as a mighty bird, called _Yel_, or _Yale_, or _Orelbale_, from the root _ell_, a term they apply to everything supernatural.

He took to wife the daughter of the Sun (the Woman of Light), and by her begat the race of man.

He formed the dry land for a place for them to live upon, and stocked the rivers with salmon, that they might have food.

When he enters his nest it is day, but when he leaves it it is night; or, according to another myth, he has the two women for wives, the one of whom makes the day, the other the night.
In the beginning Yel was white in plumage, but he had an enemy, by name _Cannook_, with whom he had various contests, and by whose machinations he was turned black.