Note 145 — LECTURE III. Primitive Religious Expression: in the Word.

The Tinné of British America have the word Nayéweri, he who creates by thought (Petitot, Les Dené Dindjie, p. 63); the Algonquian Kitché Manito created the world “by an act of his will” (Schoolcraft, Oneóta, p. 342). For the Zuñians, see Cushing, Zuñi Creation Myths, p. 379; for the Polynesians, Hale, Ethnography of the U. S. Exploring Expedition, p. 399, and Fornander, The Polynesian Race, vol. i., p. 62.

There is no distinction between these opinions and that of the Christian church, so beautifully expressed by St. Ephrem the Syrian: “At the nod of His will, noiseless and gentle, out of nothing He created all.” (Select Works, Translated by Rev. J. B. Morris, p. 185.)