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deity of the east made a wren of clay, and covered it up with a piece 

 of native cloth (mochdpu). Hereupon they sang a song over it, and 

 after a little while the little bird showed signs of life. Uncovering it, 

 a live bird came forth, saying: " Cma hfnok pas nui kit^ nawakna?" 

 (why do you want me so quickly). "Yes," they said, "we want you 

 to fly all over this dry place and see whether you can find anything 

 living. ' ' They thought that as the Sun always passed over the middle 

 of the earth, he might have failed to notice any living beings that 

 might exist in the north or the south. So the little Wren flew all 

 over the earth, but upon its return reported that no living being 

 existed anywhere. Tradition says, however, that by this time Spider 

 Woman (K6hlcang Wuhti), lived somewhere in the south-west at the 

 edge of the water, also in a kiva, but this the little bird had failed 

 to notice. 



Hereupon the deity of the west proceeded to make very many 

 birds of different kinds and form, placing them again under the same 

 cover under which the Wren had been brought to life. They again 

 sang a song over them. Presently the birds began to move under 

 the cover. The goddess removed the cover and found under it all 

 kinds of birds and fowls. "Why do you want us so quickly ?" the latter 

 asked. "Yes, we want you to inhabit this world." Hereupon the 

 two deities taught every kind of bird the sound that it should make, 

 and then the birds scattered out in all directions. 



Hereupon the Huruing Wuhti of the west made of clay all dif- 

 ferent kinds of animals, and they were brought to life in the same 

 manner as the birds. They also asked the same question: "Why do 

 you want us so quickly?" "We want you to inhabit this earth," 

 was the reply given them, whereupon they were taught by their crea- 

 tors their different sounds or languages, after which they proceeded 

 forth to inhabit the different parts of the earth. They now concluded 

 that they would create man. The deity of the east made of clay 

 first a woman and then a man, who were brought to life in exactly 

 the same manner as the birds and animals before them. They asked 

 the same question, and were told that they should live upon this 

 earth and should understand everything. Hereupon the Huruing 

 Wuhti of the east made two tablets of some hard substance, whether 

 stone or clay tradition does not say, and drew upon them with the 

 wooden stick certain characters, handing these tablets to the newly 

 created man and woman, who looked at them, but did not know what 

 they meant. So the deity of the east rubbed with the palms of her 

 hands, first the palms of the woman and then the palms of the 

 man, by which they were enlightened so that they understood the 



