The slow and steady movement of the seasons of today is truly remarkable and a proof of cosmic order, a balanced wheel of slow change. A symbol for this wonderful and beneficient order is the canoe.

In a canoe there is order. The weak sit at the stern, the strong at the bow. Nobody stands up. There is only one captain.

Furthermore, the famous South American myth about Amalivaca breaking the legs of his daughters in order to make them stay home - as described and commented upon by Lévi-Strauss - definitely connects the canoe with the cosmic order.