Ignatius Donnelly - Antediluvian world

--------------+------------+-------------+ | I | Me. | Mi. | Me. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | You. | Ne. | Chwi. | Chwe. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | He. | E. | A. | A. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | She. | Ea. | E. | A. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | It. | Ount. | Hwynt. | Hooynt. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | We. | Noo. | Ni. | Ne. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | They. | Eonah. | Hona, fem. | Hona. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | No; or there is not. | Megosh. | Nagoes. | Nagosh. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | No. | | Na. | |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | Head. | Pan. | Pen. | Pan. |

--------------+------------+-------------+ | The Great Spirit. | Maho Peneta. | Mawr | Mosoor | | | | Penaethir. | Panaether. |

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Major Lynd found the following resemblances between the Dakota tongue and the languages of the Old World:

COMPARISON OF DAKOTA, OR SIOUX, WITH OTHER LANGUAGES.

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Latin.

English.

Saxon

Sanscrit.

German.

Danish.

Sioux.

Other

Primary

Languages.

Signification.

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See,

Seon

Sehen

Sigt

Sin

Appearing,

seen

visible.

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Pinso

Pound

Punian

Pau

W.,

Beating

Pwynian

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Vado

Went

Wendan

Winta

Passage.

Wend

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Town

Tun

Zaun

Tun

Tonwe

Gaelic,

Dun

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Qui

Who

Hwa

Kwas

Wir

Tuwe

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Weapon

Wepn

Wapen

Vaapen

Wipe

Sioux dimin.

Wipena

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Ego

I

Ic

Agam

Ich

Jeg

Mish

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Cor

Core

Co

Gr., Kear

Centre, heart

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Eight

Achta

Aute

Acht

Otte

Shaktogan

Gr., Okto

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Canna

Cane

Can

Heb., Can

Reed, weed,

W., Cawn

wood.

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Pock

Pock

Poc

Pocke

Pukkel

Poka

Dutch,

Swelling.

Poca

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With

With

Wider

Wita

Goth.,

Gewithan.

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Doughty

Dohtig

Taugen

Digtig

Dita

Hot, brave,

Ditaya

daring.

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Tight

Tian

Dicht

Digt

Titan

Strain.

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Tango

Touch

Taecan

Ticken

Tekkan

Tan

Touch, take.

Tactus

Take

Htaka

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Child

Cild

Kind

Kuld

Cin

Progeny.

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Work

Wercan

Woccas

Dutch,

Labor, motion.

Hecon

Werk

Span.,

Hecho

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Shackle

Seoacul

Shka

Ar.,

to bind (a

Schakala,

link).

Dutch,

Schakel

Teton,

Shakalan

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Query

Kuiva

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Shabby

Schabig

Schabbig

Shabya

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According to Major Lynd, the Dakotas, or Sioux, belonged to the same race as the Mandans; hence the interest which attaches to these verbal similarities.

“Among the Iroquois there is a tradition that the sea and waters infringed upon the land, so that all human life was destroyed. The Chickasaws assert that the world was once destroyed by water, but that one family was saved, and two animals of every kind. The Sioux say there was a time when there was no dry land, and all men had disappeared from existence.” (See Lynd’s “MS. History of the Dakotas,” Library of Historical Society of Minnesota.)

“The Okanagaus have a god, Skyappe, and also one called Chacha, who appear to be endowed with omniscience; but their principal divinity is their great mythical ruler and heroine, Scomalt. Long ago, when the sun was no bigger than a star, this strong medicine-woman ruled over what appears to have now become a lost island. At last the peace of the island was destroyed by war, and the noise of battle was heard, with which Scomalt was exceeding wroth, whereupon she rose up in her might and drove her rebellious subjects to one end of the island, and broke off the piece of land on which they were huddled and pushed it out to sea, to drift whither it would. This floating island was tossed to and fro and buffeted by the winds till all but two died. A man and woman escaped in a canoe, and arrived on the main-land; and from these the Okanagaus are descended.” (Bancroft’s “Native Races,” vol. iii., p. 149.) Here we have the Flood legend clearly connected with a lost island.

The Nicaraguans believed “that ages ago the world was destroyed by a flood, in which the most part of mankind perished. Afterward the teotes, or gods, restored the earth as at the beginning.” (Ibid., p. 75.) The wild Apaches, “wild from their natal hour,” have a legend that “the first days of the world were happy and peaceful days;” then came a great flood, from which Montezuma and the coyote alone escaped. Montezuma became then very wicked, and attempted to build a house that would reach to heaven, but the Great Spirit destroyed it with thunderbolts.

(Bancroft’s “Native Races,” vol. iii., p. 76.) The Pimas, an Indian tribe allied to the Papagos, have a peculiar flood legend. The son of the Creator was called Szeu-kha (Ze-us?). An eagle prophesied the deluge to the prophet of the people three times in succession, but his warning was despised; “then in the twinkling of an eye there came a peal of thunder and an awful crash, and a green mound of water reared itself over the plain. It seemed to stand upright for a second, then, cut incessantly by the lightning, goaded on like a great beast, it flung itself upon the prophet’s hut. When the morning broke there was nothing to be seen alive but one man—if indeed he were a man; Szeu-kha, the son of the Creator, had saved himself by floating on a ball of gum or resin.” This instantaneous catastrophe reminds one forcibly of the destruction of Atlantis. Szeu-kha killed the eagle, restored its victims to life, and repeopled the earth with them, as Deucalion repeopled the earth with the stones.