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became lighter and lighter. So now they could go about and they 

 were happy. That turned out to be the moon, and though it was light, 

 the light was only dim and the people, when working in the fields, 

 would still occasionally cut off their plants because they could not 

 see very distinctly, and it was still cold and the people were freezing, 

 and they still had to keep the ground warm with fires. So the people 

 were thinking about it. The chiefs again met in council, and said: 

 "Ishohf! It is better already, it is light, but it is not quite good yet, 

 it is still cold. Can we not make something better?" They con- 

 cluded that perhaps the buffalo skin was not good, and that it was 

 too cold, so they decided that this time they would take a piece of 

 mochdpu. They again cut out a round piece, stretched it over a 

 ring, but this time painted it with oxide of copper (cdJcwa). They 

 painted eyes and a mouth on the disk, and decorated the forehead of 

 what this was to resemble in yellow, red, and other colors. They 

 put a ring of corn-husks around it, which were worked in a zigzag 

 fashion.' Around this they tied a tawahona, that is, a string of red 

 horse-hair, finally thrusting a number of eagle-tail feathers into a 

 corn-husk ring, fastened to the back of the disk. In fact, they pre- 

 pared a sun symbol as it is still worn on the back of the flute players 

 in the Flute ceremony. To the forehead of the face painted on the 

 disk they tied an abalone shell. Finally the chief made nakwd,kwosis 

 of the feathers of a small yellowish bird, called irdhoya, which resem- 

 bles a fly-catcher, but has some red hair on top of the head," 



Of these nakwdkwosis the chief tied one to the point of each eagle- 

 tail feather on the sun symbol. They then placed this symbol on 

 the white cloth again, again asked some one to stand on it, and, as 

 in the case .of the moon, they swung the cloth with its contents into 

 the air, where it kept twirling upward and upward towards the east. 

 Soon they again saw a light rise in the east. It became brighter and 

 brighter and warmer. That proved to be the sun, and it had not 

 come up very high when the Hopi already felt its warmth.' After 



> Lamdvantiva says that the Hopi are very secretive about making this zigzag ring. They 

 do not want any one to witness the manufacturing of this peculiar object. 



' The Hopi say that this red spot resembles fire, and hence the feathers of this bird are very 

 much prized for prayer-oflferings, whose object it is to produce warm weather. 



' Which is said to come partly from those small nakwikwosis and partly from the glittering 

 shell which is said to also contain heat. As the shell glitters the light is said to proceed from the 

 sun on account of that shell. The man that was thrown up with the sun is said to hold the sun in 

 front of himself, but the rotation of the sun is caused by the Huruing Wuhti of the east and the 

 Huniing Wuhti of the west who keep drawing and rotating the sun with a string. The man who 

 was thrown up with the moon is also said to be still behind the moon, but instead of holding the 

 moon in the center, as is the case of the sun, he still holds her by a stick that they attached to it 

 when the moon was male. The increase and decrease of the moon is caused by a covering which 

 is probably the piece of cloth in which the moon disk and the man were thrown into the sky a€^ 

 the time when the moon was created. 



