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when it got fast. They made also four bdhos, put them and a young 

 man into the box, and sent the box off floating down the river. 



After a while the box would go no farther, and so the young man 

 got out. He saw water everywhere. In the midst of it was a house. 

 But how should he get there? Presently Huruing Wuhti came out 

 there and called him four times. Then he consented to go to her. 

 She rolled a corn-meal ball across the water, which made a road. On 

 this he went to her house. In the evening Huruing Wuhti sent him 

 into a side room saying that something was coming. It was the Sun. 

 He was sitting on a disk attached to a pole like a spindle and made a 

 great noise. He was dressed like some Katcinas (Powamu and others) 

 and nicely painted up with fine siRdhpiRi. Her house is open below. 

 He came in and assorted the bahos that had been offered to him on 

 his course around the earth. Those offered by the bad people were 

 thrown away; those from the good people were put in a row. He 

 then came into Huruing Wuhti 's house and bathed his body. After 

 his bath he ate some hurushiRi, oongawi, etc. When he was through 

 eating he put on his paint and clothes again, went down into his 

 house and under the earth to the east and west on his course again. 

 During this course eastward the people below the earth see him there. 

 In the east he goes down in his house. Hence, the bahos offered to 

 the Sun are carried eastward to the Sun Shrines of the Sun clan 

 (tawd, kihus). There east lived also "Flutes" (Ldlentu), who are 

 always playing and then the sun rises. For that reason at the Flute 

 ceremony the gray fox skin (Idtayo ndtsi) is put up at the white 

 dawn (qoydngwunuptu), then the yellow fox skin (sikahtayo n^tsi) 

 at the yellow dawn (siKangwunuptu). 



Then the Sun there lays off his clothes again, bathes his body, 

 is fed by the Sun clan (Tawd-namu), arrays himself again, mounts 

 a bluff (chochokpi), and again proceeds on his course gathering the 

 bd,hos, etc., that are offered to him as he sweeps westward. 



8. THE WANDERINGS OF THE BEAR CLAN (HON-RAMU).' 



After we had left the sfpahpuni the Bear people separated and went 

 ahead of the others." First they came somewhere near the present 



' Told by Lomavantiwa (Shupaulavi) 



2 The Hopi agree in their different tales that after leaving the sipahpuni, not only the different 

 nationalities scattered and took different routes towards the East, but also those people whom they 

 considered their forefathers, scattered and traveled eastward in smaller and larger bodies. They 

 stopped at various places for shorter or longer periods, and it was in these wanderings that the 

 different clans were created, and it is by reason of this separation and of the traveling eastward of 

 the different bodies by different routes, that the traditions and tales of the different clans vary so 

 considerably from each other. The following is a tale of the experiences of the Bear clan as given 

 by one of the principal men in Shupaulavi, a member of different secret orders, and one of the 

 best story tellers and singers. 



