The Caddo relate, as being the mythical origin of their nation, that they came from a water-sink in Louisiana, went westward, shoved up earth by means of arrow-heads, and thus made a mountain. The totems of their gentes once were, as far as remembered, _bear_ ná-ustse, _panther_ kö′she, _wolf_ tá-isha, _snake_ kíka, _wild-cat_ wadó, _owl_ néa, ó-ush.