Then came among men and the beings, it is said, the wisest of wise
men and the foremost, the all-sacred master, Póshaiyaŋk‘ya, he who
appeared in the waters below, even as did the Sun-father in the wastes
above, and who arose from the nethermost sea, and pitying men still,
won upward, gaining by virtue of his (innate) wisdom-knowledge issuance
from that first world-womb through ways so dark and narrow that those
who, seeing somewhat, crowded after, could not follow, so eager were
they and so mightily did they strive with one another! Alone, then, he
fared upward from one womb (cave) to another out into the great breadth
of daylight. There, the earth lay, like a vast island in the midst of
the great waters, wet and unstable. And alone fared he forth dayward,
seeking the Sun-father and supplicating him to deliver mankind and the
creatures there below.