ve emanated." Mr. Hagar states that this source seems to
be appropriately figured by the oval form which he interprets as an
egg (see fig. 28, _c_). On the other hand I point out that the flat
plate of fine gold, which was set up by the Inca Manco Capac between
images of the sun and moon, is figured as circular in shape (fig.
28, _b_).

I draw attention to Mr. Stansbury Hagar's interesting and suggestive
paper on "The Celestial Bear," which appeared in vol. XIII, no.
XLIX, of the Journal of American Folk-lore, in July, 1900. In this
he relates the legend connected with Ursa Major by the Micmac
Indians, that "this group of stars served to mark the divisions of
the night and the seasons for the Micmacs." A point of particular
interest in connection with the Micmac legend is the fact, so
clearly distinguishable, that the story was suggested to the minds
of the Indians by the different positions assumed by the
constellation in its annual circuit around Polaris.

"The Micmacs say,.... In all things as it was and is in the sky, so
it is on earth.... In midspring the bear does actually seem to be
climbing down out of her [celestial] den [_corona borealis_], which
appears higher up to the northern horizon. In midsummer ... the bear
runs along the northern horizon.... Soon after the bear assumes an
erect position she topples over on her back [is slain] in the
autumn. In midwinter she lies dead on her back, ... but the den
[_corona borealis_] has re-appeared, with the bear of the new year
lying therein, invisible. But this does not end the story of the
bear, ... through the winter her skeleton lies upon its back in the
sky, but her life spirit has entered another bear who also lies upon
her back in the den, invisible and sleeping the winter sleep. When
the spring comes around again, this bear will again issue forth from
the den to be again pursued by the hunters, to be again slain, but
again to send into the den her life-spirit, to issue forth yet again
when the sun once more awakens the sleeping earth. And so the drama
keeps on eternally." Reasoning by induction, I am strongly tempted
to assign the origin of the Egyptian myth of Osiris and of the
"child in its cradle," to the same source of inspiration--possibly
also other