March. 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 39 



The Mocking-bird (Yahpa) was sitting outside and distributed 

 the languages to the people. As they were climbing up one of them 

 dropped one of his moccasins. Below the Hopi had pretty moccasins, 

 but as this moccasin was dropped and the man had to make another 

 one, and could not make it as nicely as the other one had been, the 

 Hopi now have not very nice moccasins. The people had not yet 

 all come out when the chief stopped them and closed up the opening, 

 but one of the sorcerers (P6pwaktu) had also come out. 



From here the people now started on different routes, the White 

 Man taking the most southern route. All the other people took 

 different routes further north. The Hopi brought with them Md- 

 yingwu, whose body consisted entirely of corn, his feet being ears of 

 com, so that he could not move very fast. The Hopi were to have 

 the horse, but as they tried to ride him they could not do so, as they 

 did not put any bridle on him; so the Navaho, wearing a band around 

 their head, tried it and they could ride him. The two matched 

 together better for that reason because they also bridled the pony, 

 probably with yucca leaves. 



They had not gone very far when the chief's son took sick and 

 died. They thought that the sorcerer who was with them had killed 

 him, but the latter said: "Nobody has died, he is not dead; just go 

 and look down into the opening through which we came. He is 

 down there." So the chief went and looked down there, and beheld 

 his child walking about in the other world. So they took the Powaku 

 with them. He said that hereafter no one would be really dead, but 

 the people who would die would simply go back to the lower world. 

 After they had travelled for some time, just how long tradition does 

 not say, the Coyote who had carried the stars in his hand, and was 

 traveling with the Hopi people, threw the stars into the sky so that 

 from that time it was somewhat light during the night. 



The White People had taken with them the Spider which was very 

 skillful, so that when they had traveled some distance the Spider 

 rubbed some scales from her skin, and from these created burros. 

 These the White Men afterwards used for carrying their burdens. 

 So they got along faster and reached the place where the sun rises 

 first. When they arrived there a star arose in the south, which told 

 the other migrating people that some one had arrived at the sunrise. 

 This was a signal that they had agreed upon before starting. This 

 star is said to have influence over the animals, and the old people say 

 that whoever wants to own a horse, cattle, sheep, etc., should pray 

 to this star, which the Hopi are doing to this day. 



So the people traveled on. All at once one party came upon a 



