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Though all these mythical beings are in a sense departmental gods, they yield in renown to a later child of their race, Maui, the great culture-hero, who is an advanced form of the culture-heroes, mainly theriomorphic, of the lower races.*

In the myths of the other races on the North-west Pacific Coast nothing is more remarkable than the theriomorphic character of the heroes, who are also to a certain extent gods and makers of things.

It is not to be expected that many, if any, remains of a theriomorphic character should cling to a goddess so abstract as Aditi.

The zoo-morphic or theriomorphic mythologies and creeds are nowhere more vivacious than in America.

If our theory of the evolution of gods is correct, we may expect to find in the myths of Indra traces of a theriomorphic character.