Yel is further represented as the god of the winds and storms, and of the thunder and lightning.[1] [Footnote 1: For the extent and particulars of this myth, many of the details of which I omit, see Petitot, _ubi supra_, pp.

68, 87, note; Matthew Macfie.

_Travels in Vancouver Island and British Columbia_, pp.
452-455 (London, 1865); and J.K.Lord, _The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia_ (London, 1866).

It is referred to by Mackenzie and other early writers.] Thus we find, even in this extremely low specimen of the native race, the same basis for their mythology as in the most cultivated nations of Central America.

Not only this; it is the same basis upon which is built the major part of the sacred stories of all early religions, in both continents; and the excellent Father Petitot, who is so much impressed by these resemblances that he founds upon them a learned argument to prove that the Dene are of oriental extraction,[1] would have written more to the purpose had his acquaintance with American religions been as extensive as it was with those of Asiatic origin.
[Footnote 1: See his "Essai sur l'Origine des Dene-Dindjie," in his _Monographie_, above quoted.] There is one point in all these myths which I wish to bring out forcibly.
That is, the distinction which is everywhere drawn between the God of Light and the Sun.