'the theft of fire from the sky by a terrestrial hero ... brings into play an opposition which is deemed essential in mythic thought and is perhaps the root-source of other religious images, including those of our own culture'

'fire was born when Heaven and Earth separated'.

'men and women used to climb up the great pine tree that reaches the sky; a hawk discovered the secret of fire sticks but in an argument burnt the tree. The people left in the sky became stars.'

It seems likely that from the earliest times, the forces of order and of chaos, the Gods and the Demons, were identified with notions of the Tame and the Wild. The Medieval image of the Wild Man is derived from this concept; the Wild forces are repeatedly described as having two distinguishing characteristics, they are hairy and they have horns.

The alternating of generations plays a vital role in the generating of the Created World. In the imagery of the Cosmic Mill it is the Gods and the demons who Churn the Milky ocean, whereby a new creation is generated.

A Polynesia:myth tells how the hero Maui was obliged to visit his Grandmother in the Underworld for fire after the old Fire had gone out. He travelled through the hole made by the First Man, Tiki

'.. as a route for souls to pass down. This hole was closed by Maui's passing through it'.