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very long before they commenced to quarrel with each other. ' ' I 

 want to live here alone," the woman said. "I can prepare food for 

 myself." "Yes, but who will get the wood for you? Who will work 

 the fields?" the man said. "We had better remain together." They 

 made up with each other, but peace did not last. They soon quar- 

 reled again, separated for a while, came together again, separated 

 again, and so on. Had these people not lived in that way, all the 

 other Hopi would now live in peace, but others learned it from them, 

 and that is the reason why there are so many contentions between 

 the men and their wives. These were the kind of people that Spider 

 Woman had created. The Huruing Wuhti of the west heard 

 about this and commenced to meditate upon it. Soon she called the 

 goddess from the east to come over again, which the latter did. "I 

 do not want to live here alone," the deity of the west said, "I also 

 want some good people to live here." So she also created a number 

 of other people, but always a man and a wife. They were created 

 in the same manner as the deity of the east had created hers. They 

 lived in the west. Only wherever the people that Spider Woman 

 had created came in contact with these good people there was trouble. 

 The people at that time led a nomadic life, living mostly on game. 

 Wherever they found rabbits or antelope or deer they would kill the 

 game and eat it. This led to a good many contentions among the 

 people. Finally the Woman of the west said to her people : "You re- 

 main here; I am going to live, after this, in the midst of the ocean in 

 the west. When you want anything from me, you pray to me there." 

 Her people regretted this very much, but she left them. The Huru- 

 ing Wuhti of the east did exactly the same thing, and that is the 

 reason why at the present day the places where these two live are 

 never seen. 



Those Hopi who now want something from them deposit their 

 prayer offerings in the village. When they say their wishes and 

 prayers they think of those two who live in the far distance, but of 

 whom the Hopi believe that they still remember them. 



The Spanish were angry at Huruing Wuhti and two of them took 

 their guns and proceeded to the abiding place of the deity. The 

 Spaniards are very skillful and they found a way to get there. When 

 they arrived at the house of Huruing Wuhti the latter at once sur- 

 mised what their intentions were. "You have come to kill me," 

 she said; "don't do that; lay down your weapons and I shall show 

 you something; I am not going to hurt you." They laid down their 

 arms, whereupon she went to the rear end of the kiva and brought 

 out a white lump like a stone and laid it before the two men, asking 



