First They Say Were Made Waters, Out Of Which By The Gods Was Made All Diuersitie Of Creatures That Are Visible Or Inuisible.

For mankind they say a woman was made first, which by the woorking of one of the goddes, conceiued and brought foorth children:

And in such sort they say they had their beginning. [C 3]

But how manie yeeres or ages haue passed since, they say they can make no relation, hauing no letters nor other such meanes as we to keepe recordes of the particularities of times past, but onelie tradition from father to sonne.

They thinke that all the gods are of humane shape, & therfore they represent them by images in the formes of men, which they call 'Kewasowok' one alone is called 'Kewas'; Them they place in houses appropriate or temples which they call 'Mathicomuck'; Where they woorship, praie, sing, and make manie times offerings vnto them. In some 'Machicomuck' we haue seene but on 'Kewas', in some two, and in other some three; The common sort thinke them to be also gods.

They beleeue also the immortalitie of the soule, that after this life as soone as the soule is departed from the bodie according to the workes it hath done, it is eyther carried to heaue the habitacle of gods, there to enioy perpetuall blisse and happiness, or els to a great pitte or hole, which they thinke to bee in the furthest partes of their part of the worlde towarde the sunne set, there to burne continually:

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