"Soon a spot appeared in the space over towards the sun; and it grew until it was great as the moon,and then she knew a world was intended; but when,growing and growing, at last it cast her planet in the shade, all save the little point lighted by her presence,she knew how very angry he was; yet she knit away,assured that the end would be as she had said.
"And so came the earth, at first but a cold gray mass hanging listless in the hollow void. Later she saw it separate into divisions; here a plain, there a mountain,yonder a sea, all as yet without a sparkle. And then, by a river-bank, something moved; and she stopped her knitting for wonder. The something arose, and lifted its hands to the sun in sign of knowledge whence it had its being. And this First Man was beautiful to see. And about him were the creations we call nature-the grass,the trees, birds, beasts, even the insects and reptiles.