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small child. Hereupon he also said: "I am very warm," and wiped 

 off the perspiration from his face and body. "Have you come?" 

 Huruing Wuhti said. "Yes, we have come." "Thanks," she re- 

 plied. 



They were brother and sister. So the children sat up. "Have 

 you anything to say?" Huruing Wuhti asked them. "Yes," they 

 said, "why do you want us?" "Yes," Huruing Wuhti replied, "why 

 my father, the Sun, has made a beautiful earth and I want you to live 

 on this earth. That is why I want you. So I want you to go eastward 

 now, and wherever you find a good piece of land, there you settle 

 down. By and by others, too, shall come to you." Before they 

 started the Sun asked Huruing Wuhti who these two were, how 

 they should be called ? And Huruing Wuhti named the youth Muy- 

 ingwa, and the maiden Yd,hoya. Hereupon the two started and left. 



The Sun and Huruing Wuhti prepared to create some more. It 

 was at this time still night. Huruing Wuhti now rubbed her abdo- 

 men with both hands, and took from her umbilicus a^small quantity 

 of the scales which she twisted together. All this scaly matter, thus 

 rubbed from her body, she then placed on the floor, covering it up 

 with the aforesaid cloth. They again took hold of the corners, sang 

 over it, and as they lifted up the comers the fourth time, something 

 began to move under the covering. They took the covering off and 

 there was another being all in perspiration. It was again a maiden. 

 She wiped off the perspiration from her body with some sand that 

 was on the floor, and sat up. Huriiing Wuhti told her not to rub her 

 body any more, as the sand had already adhered to her body and 

 the latter was dry. She hereupon told the maiden that she should 

 be called Sand Clan member (Tuwa-wung^^a), and Lizard Clan mem- 

 ber (Kiikuts-wungwa) . Huruing Wuhti hereupon sent the maiden 

 off after the other two, giving her, however, one grain of shelled corn 

 before she left. 



By this time it became a little lighter and the Sun said to Huruing 

 W^uhti, she should hurry up. So the latter this time rubbed her face, 

 and the inside of her nose, and from the scales thus rubbed off she 

 formed a little ball, placed it on the floor, and again covered it. They 

 went through the same process as before. Soon they heard a child 

 crying like a Hopi child would cry, and another one like the crying 

 of a coyote. Removing the covering, they found a youth and a 

 maiden, both also perspiring profusely and wiping off the 

 perspiration. "Why do you want us?" the children asked. "Yes," 

 Huruing Wuhti said, "we have made this beautiful world here and 

 there is hardly anybody living there yet, and that you should live here 



