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he went there and grabbed her, saying: "So you are the one. On 

 your account my child has died. I shall throw you back again." 

 He then lifted her to the opening. "I am going to throw you down here," 

 he said, "you have come out with us and we shall now live in the same 

 way here again." But she did not want to. "No, "she said, "you 

 must not throw me down, I want to stay with you, and if you will 

 contend with one another again I shall always talk for you (be on your 

 side). " Now, you go and look down there and you will see your child 

 going around down there." So he looked down and there he saw 

 his child running around with the others. "That is the way it will 

 be," the maiden said to the chief; "if any one dies, he will go down 

 there and he will remain there only four days, and after the four days 

 he will come back again and live with his people."' Hereupon the 

 chief was willing that she should remain and he did not throw her 

 down, but he told her that she could not go with them right away. 

 When they should leave, when they had slept, after the first day she 

 might follow them. So she remained there near the opening. 



Hereupon P6okong looked around all over and he found out that 

 towards one side it was always cold. It was at this time dark yet, 

 so Spider Woman (K6hl<ang Wuhti) took a piece of white native 

 cloth (6wa) and cut a large round piece but of it on which she made 

 a drawing. She was assisted by the, Flute priest. They sang some 

 songs over it, and Spider Woman then took the disk away towards 

 the east. Soon they saw something rise there, but it did not become 

 very light yet, and it was the moon. So they said they must make 

 something else. Spider Woman and the Flute priest then took a piece 

 of buckskin, cut a circular piece out of it, and made on it a drawing 

 of the sun symbol,, as is still used by the Flute priest to-day. They 

 sang over this, whereupon Spider Woman took that away and in a 

 little while something rose again, and now it became light and very 

 warm. But they had rubbed the yelks of eggs over this sun symbol 

 -.and that is what makes it so very light, and that is why the chickens 

 know when it is light and yellow in the morning, and crow early at 

 the sunrise, and at noon, and in the evening, and now they know all 

 about the time. And now the chief and all the people were happy 

 because it was light and warm. 



The chiefs now made all different kinds of blossoms and plants 

 and everything. They now thought of starting and scattering out. 

 The language then spoken was the Hopi language. This language 



1 This is the way the narrator stated it. The meaning is not quite clear but probablyit re/ers 

 to the belief of the Hopi that the souls of the dead remain in the grave three days, leaving the 

 grave on the fourth day to travel to the skeleton house to live with the departed Hopi. 



