The Great Tribe
'The world was created by Nurtalie; these beings who had already long existed had the forms of crows or eagle hawks. The two species of Nurtalie are represented as two hostile groups which were originally in a constant state of war.....there is also a sort of constitutional hostility between the totems of the phratries'

'It is related that in this tribe the totems were only the names given to the different parts of Baiame's body at first. So the clans were in a sense the fragments of the divine body '

'The progenitors of the existing tribes, whether birds or beasts, were put in the sky to shine as stars'