Among the Tsimshean Indians of Alaska the following legend is
current: “At first it was entirely dark. There was no light in
the world. The people could see nothing, but were groping around
in a continual night. Then the son of the heavenly chief came
down to earth, and the people complained to him that it was so
dark. He said he would help them, and then light came.”
A faint reflection, all this, of the story of Him who is indeed the
Light of the world. (Text.)
(1849)