Parallel to the two íksa of the Cha'hta the Creeks are divided into two _fires_ (tútka), a civil fire and a military fire. The term _fire_ evidently refers to council fires, which had to be kindled ceremonially by the friction of two pieces of wood. The term _fire_ was also applied by Sháwanos and other Northern Indians to the States formed by the early colonists, and is still used of the States now constituting the American Union: the thirteen fires, the seventeen fires, etc.