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were of ice. His costume also consisted of ice and was full of little 

 fringes or icicles that rattled all over his body. On the head he also 

 had two large ice ridges representing clouds.* 



The little boy was very much frightened and grasped his brother 

 and cried: "Get up, there is somebody here." So the elder brother 

 jumped up and beheld the C6tukvnangi. He also was very much 

 frightened and the two children embraced each other and cried. 

 While the children looked downward, Cdtukvnangi removed his 

 mask and when they again looked up they saw a very handsome 

 man. "Do not cry, do not cry," he said to the children, "here, 

 drink; I have brought some water for you," and handed them the 

 gourd vessel, from which they drank and quenched their thirst. He 

 then handed them the food, and they ate it and satisfied their hunger. 

 "You remain here," he said, "you remain here at least two or three 

 days and eat and drink this, and when you have recovered and be- 

 come strong then follow your people. They are not far away. They 

 are right east of here. " After he had said this and the children were 

 not just looking .towards him he rose again and disappeared in the 

 sky. When the children looked for him he was gone. 



So they slept there that night, stayed the next day and remained 

 another night, and the following day at about noon C6tukvnangi 

 again appeared to them bringing them some more of the same kind 

 of food, also some water melons and drinking water. C6tukvnangi 

 remained with them that afternoon and after the sun had gone down 

 he began to talk to them, talking to them all that night. C6tukvnangi 

 is the great warrior chief, arid he now gave to these two youths the 

 lightning and the thunder, and he told them how to kill enemies and 

 that when they had killed their enemies they should take their 

 scalps; and he taught them the songs that they were to sing when 

 they returned from their war expeditions and after they had killed 

 some one, and told them that when they came to their home they 

 should throw the scalps into the kiva, on the cloud symbol made 

 with corn-meal by the warrior chief. They should then cut out a 

 round piece of bear skin which they should place on the floor in the 

 kiva and encircle it by a line of corn-meal. The warrior who had 

 brought home the scalp should sit on this bear skin for three days 

 and three nights, and on the morning of the fourth day the warrior 

 should wash his head in the kiva (t6kasnaya). Then he should 

 go to his home where his Raamu,* should also wash his head. 

 Then he should put the scalp which he had brought on a stick and 



' Similar ridges are still made on top of the mask of the Tukwtinangw Katcinas. 

 • Clan aunts. 



