One evening, the two went to lie down and rest. Just as they were about to sleep, Great Turtle man showed up and announced his arrival. He told them, “During the night I am going to leave my arrows to lie here, and in the morning I will come back and retrieve them.”

The daughter noticed that he held two arrows and that one had a crystal flint point (ice) while the other had no point attached to it at all. The flint point would be very dangerous for the future living things that sprung from the ground. Turtle Man seemed to repeatedly straighten out the arrow that had no point which posed no danger. He then lay the arrows on her body, side by side, and tied them together with a deer thong. Within these two arrows were the male substance of life and death.

He said to her, “Leave them here and do not untie them. I will return in the morning and undo them myself.” He then left to go back to his place under the earth.

In the morning he removed the arrows and returned to his place under the earth. The daughter appeared to be pleased after this happened. She noticed that she was undergoing changes to her body.

As her daughter began to get bigger, she could hear two male voices speaking from within her body.

One voice said, “What will you do when you and I are born.”

The other voice answered, “I will create human beings so that they may live as peoples. I will also create animal beings who will provide game for the people to live on. Next, I will create the rules that human beings and animal beings will live by on this earth. As well, I will create all the things that grow so that they will bear fruit that other beings can live on. All these things will make the human beings who will dwell on this earth happy and content.”

Budding Flowers then heard the voice who answered ask the other brother, “What will you do after you are born?”

The other voice replied, “I will create the same things as you; if I am not able to do so, I will create my own things so that I will have something worthy to contribute to the world as well.”

She then heard one of them say, “It is time for us to leave our mother’s body and go out into the world. Which one of us will take the lead?”

The other one answered, “You take the lead, and I will follow where there is light and spring out that way.”

The other voice answered, “I don’t think that would be a good idea, because if you go that way our mother will be destroyed.”

Suddenly, the, first child sprang out in a natural manner from the womb in the body of his mother. Soon after, the other child borne through her arm pit in an unnatural manner, with result being her death.

The boy’s grandmother took the two male children and began to attend to them. She then lay the body of her daughter at the entrance of the lodge and told the children, “Don’t worry, my grandchildren, your mother is not completely cold and dead; she will have warmth and life again in ten days time. There is still hope for her.”

Their grandmother asked them, “Do you boys know where you came from and where you will go after you leave this world?”

One of the boys answered, “I know the place we have come from. It is the sky which is situated on the upper side of the earth. That is something that I will never forget. I will always continue to grasp that place where I came from by using both my hands, so that when I leave this world I will be able to return there.”

His grandmother said to him. “I will name you Teharonhia:wako, He Grasps the Sky with Both Hands, because you have not forgotten where you came from.”

Then the other male child was asked by her, “What do you think about the question; I asked your brother about where you both came from?”

He answered, “I don’t think about the place from where I came from or where I will go when I leave this world. In fact, I am quite happy that I live here and trust in the gift my father gave me to be forever content in this world.”

His grandmother asked him, “What was the gift that your father gave you?”

He pulled out an arrow and showed her, “This is the arrow he gave me with the point attached to it. It is a flint-pointed arrow which typifies the power of the piercing of the extreme winter. Maybe he intended my having it in order fro me to defend myself, and that is the reason I do not fear anything here. I can stop anything from growing or living with this weapon.”

His grandmother then said to him, “I will call you Sawiskera, Flint Crystal Ice. That is because you think only of yourself in this world.”

From that time on, the destiny of the generations of onkwe honwe (real human beings) who would be born in the future would be set by the understanding of where the twins had come from.

Teharonhia:wako would be known by them as the right-handed twin while his brother Sawiskera would be known as the left-handed twin. The onkwe honwe, like other living things, would always be influenced by the twins. Their minds would be either turned toward the Sky World or turned toward the Earth World. Like the right-handed twin and the left-handed twin, their minds would be divided into the right and left sides. Those whose minds used only the left side would be solely turned toward the earth and would bring disruptive influences to it by trying to take control over it. They would only think of themselves in matters pertaining to the world. Those whose minds are turned toward the right side would always know where they came from, and try to protect the things on earth and always think of others first.

A few days later she overheard Sawiskera ask his brother, “Do you know where our mother went?”

Teharonhia:wako answered, “I believe she is sleeping.”

Sawiskera asked his grandmother, “Grandmother, is it true that our mother is only resting and that she will awaken in ten days time?”

She answered him, “It is true my grandson. She will soon wake up after ten days time.”

“Grandmother!” Sawiskera replied, “It is urgent that I see her as soon as possible because I miss her.”

She answered him, “Don’t worry, you will see her because I know the time she will rise up again.”

He pleaded with her, “Then you must tell me when that time is as it would really put my mind at ease.” His grandmother then took him by the hand, thinking that nothing could go wrong if she showed him his mother.

When Sawiskera saw his mother’s body he asked her, “Mother, why do you just lay there? Why don’t you get up?” His mother did not move at all. Sawiskera was becoming angry as he tried to prompt to stand up.

He then said to himself, “What will I do with this sleeping woman who is my mother and who continues to ignore me.”

His grandmother told him, “Do not worry; she will remain like this until she rises in ten days time.”

His brother, Teharonhia:wako, said to them, “It doesn’t matter to me when this happens. As far and I am concerned, she can sleep until she decides it is time for her to get up.”His grandmother took it to mean that Teharonhia:wako did not care what happened to her, and she became angry with him.

Sawiskera meanwhile did not have any patience with his mother who would not respond to his needs. This would be another lesson that the onkwe honwe would teach there children in the future when they were born. They would have to listen to their children’s needs.

Sawiskera said, “I will wait a short time for her to rise, and if she does not do so I won’t let it bother me again. Anyway, maybe it is better that she lay there forever.”

Teharonhia:wako was shocked at what his brother had just said. Angrily he told him, “I am going for a walk so that I can clear my mind about what you said about our mother.”

The boys’ grandmother cared for Sawiskera more than she did for Teharonhia:wako. She had always believed that Teharonhia:wako was responsible for her daughter’s having to be put to rest for ten days time when she could have been awake. The onkwe honwe in the future would also learn from her behaviour regarding what can occur when their loved ones favour one child more than another. All the children had to be taken care of equally. The men would always be wary of the influence of their mother-in-laws over their children.

After Teharonhia:wako had left to go for his walk, the boys’grandmother said to Sawiskera, “My grandson, I have a few provisions left, and I will save what I have for you and your brother. I don’t know where I will be able to obtain more when the rest of the provisions run out.”

Sawiskera then asked his grandmother, “Could you make me something that I could use to hunt with. Pretty soon there will be many kinds of game animals running about, and we will have plenty of meat.”

She answered, “I will make you a bow and arrow. However, after I finish making it, promise me that you will not lend it to your brother.”

When Teharonhia:wako returned fro his walk, he saw that his brother was carrying a bow and arrow. He asked him, “My brother, where did you get a device such as this?”

Sawiskera answered, “Grandmother made it for me out of wood.”

After speaking to Sawiskera, Teharonhia:wako then asked his grandmother, “Grandmother I have seen the wonderful device that you made Sawiskera, could you make one for me as well?”

She answered, “Instead of having to go through the trouble of making another one, why don’t you share your brother’s.” Teharonhia:wako was satisfied with the answer he received for the time being.

Meanwhile, Sawiskera attached an ice flint to the end of an arrow he had made. He said, “It is now time. I will awaken our mother as she has been asleep for much too long.”

He then approached the body of his mother and said, “Mother, if you do not wake up right now, I will thrust my arrow through your body to wake you up myself.” He then shook his mother and she did not respond. Next, he took his ice flint arrow and held it over his head and thrust it into her body. His mother did not move. He then cut at her throat until her head came off; then he laid it aside.

Teharonhia:wako soon became aware of what happened. He said to his brother, “Sawiskera, look at what you have done? You have destroyed our mother. It was she who first established herself in this world, and it is now she who will be the first to depart from it. She will go back to where she came from, and one day she will begin to light up the Sky World once again. Her body will bring new life to this world through the things that will grow from it. From the life of her body in the earth, I will form the onkwe honwe.

Our mother will now be named Kahi te:sok, “She Who Always Leads, and this is the way that she will always be remembered. Women shall always arrive on the earth from above first. They will visit this place and then return to where they came from. Before leaving, their bodies will spring up new life. In this way, the cycle of life will always be renewed.”

Later the onkwe honwe, remembered this event as the time of the first killing. They taught their children that the cutting of the creation by any other process but the natural one was wrong. They also taught their children that from death would come new life in the ground.

After this occurred, Teharonhia:wako went to his grandmother and spoke to her about what he had witnessed, “Grandmother, I have seen what my brother has done to our mother. Now that I think about it, I don’t think that it was a good idea that you favoured him over me by making him a bow and arrow.”

His grandmother then promised him, “My grandson, I will make you a bow as well so that feelings will be better between you and your brother.” His grandmother made him a bow and some arrows, and, after giving it to him, told him, “Remember, this will be the first and the last thing that I will ever make for you. If you lose it, you will not have another.” She then passed him the bow and arrow.

Teharonhia:wako replied, “Thank-you grandmother. The onkwe honwe who are to be born will learn to treat their children equally.”

Teharonhia:wako soon began to travel around the great back of the turtle with his bow and arrow. During this time, his grandmother would not allow the twins to eat together; she tried to prevent them from having a relationship with one another.

Teharonhia:wako traveled around the shore of a vast body of water, always returning from where he started. One day as he watched the sky, he saw a bird fly by. He went to get his bow and arrow in the lodge. As he got it out, he saw that the bird had perched nearby. Suddenly the bird flew off along the edge of the water.

Teharonhia:wako followed it, cutting across the fields as he ran. He saw that the bird had stopped and had again perched itself on a ledge. As he moved closer, it eyed him with surprise. He took the bow and placed an arrow in its shaft, and then shot at the bird, missing it. He watched his arrow fly through the air and fall into the water. This made him sad because he knew he would not get another arrow. He began to wade into the water and tried to grab it. Just as the arrow disappeared into the water’s depths, there was suddenly no more water in the direction he was going. Instead, he saw a lodge with smoke rising from its top, and, in front of it sitting, was man being.

The man being said to Teharonhia:wako, “For a long time I have been watching you. I was hoping to see you. I have brought you here because I have seen that your grandmother does not respect you. It is time for you to do the work that you were destined to do. A grave thing is happening to the earth, due to the fact that you and your brother are walking on different paths. This is the way it will always be between you both. Your grandmother has taken the side of your brother. In return I will replace the things that you have been deprived of by your grandmother in order that you may survive.”

He then took some food plants and said to Teharonhia:wako, “Here are the items I promised. Now take them with you. From these items, you will prepare food by roasting them upon your return home. Then you shall eat the food. When your brother and grandmother find out that you have provisions, they will ask for some. You will answer them that as soon as they grow you will decide how much you will give them. Remember, these things have sprouted from the depths of the earth, and, like you, are the result of my mingling with your mother.” Next, he told him, “You will need many things to do your work. Do not worry; eventually, you will have them, and you will lack nothing. During this time, many things occur. If you ever need anything, come back and you will find me in this same place.”

Teharonhia:wako replied, “Thank you! I now have to return home.”

Before he left, the man being gave Teharonhia:wako some seed, and Teharonhia:wako proceeded toward his grandmother’s lodge.

Teharonhia:wako did not know that the man being was his father, the Great Turtle man being, and when he had gone past his shell into the water his father had been waiting for him.

Upon arriving back at the lodge, his grandmother offered Teharonhia:wako the leftovers of the meal that she had cooked for Sawiskera.

Teharonhia:wako asked his grandmother, “Why, Grandmother, have we never eaten together, and, when I do eat, my food is always cold and dry?”

She replied, “That is because we are so poor; we have nothing but stale food left to eat.” Teharonhia:wako then told her, “It is time that I begin to do the work that my destiny calls me to do. I will make sure that there are always things for us to eat.”

His grandmother then said to him, “Grandson, perhaps it would be better if you found another place to do your work, so that you may be alone and away from me and your brother. This way, we will not be in your way.”

Teharonhia:wako agreed with her, knowing inside that he was not wanted. He went to the other side of the island, where he put up a bark shelter and proceeded to begin to fulfill his destiny.