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back of Balolookong, and had brought with them. So when the 

 Batki people made bahos they rubbed a little of this meat into the 

 paint with which they painted the bahos, and then it thundered and 

 rained. Before that it had rained only a very little, and hardly ever 

 was there any lightning and thunder. After this there came heavy 

 rains and weather, which made the Batki people "Great Batki" 

 people. 



The two youths grew up to be young men, but they became bad, 

 warring and fighting the Hopi children and the other youths, and 

 when they had grown up they remembered what their father, the 

 Thunder, had told them. They said to each other: "We have now 

 grown up, let us go out and ask our father for what he has promised 

 us, and then let us go and kill some one. " To their mother and the 

 people they said that they were going to kill some deer, and so she 

 prepared some food for them and they started off. In the evening 

 they gathered some wood and built a fire. C6tukvnangi saw them 

 and came down to them again. "You have now reached your ob- 

 ject," he said to them. "Yes," they replied. "It is well that you 

 have come, "he said. "Close by here are some Apache, and whoever 

 becomes a warrior for having killed them, he is a great warrior, be- 

 cause they are fierce. These Navaho do not amount to much, and it 

 is well that you have come in this direction." So during the night 

 he instructed them how to go out and kill the Apache, also teaching 

 them some war songs. Hereupon he went home again. He first 

 told them, however, that he would watch them, and that he would 

 kill their enemies for them. They would do it, he said, but it would 

 be he that would do it through them. Then when they were through 

 they should come back again and he would come down again, then 

 they would talk together and from here they should go back again to 

 their home. 



So in the morning they proceeded and soon came upon some 

 Apache (Utsaamu). There were a great many of them, who at once 

 became excited and ran towards them and began to surround them. 

 The two brothers at once began to shoot arrows into the crowd for 

 some time, but did not hit any one, neither did the Apache hit them. 

 The brothers had put the lightning (t^lwipiki) and the thunder 

 (umiikpi) under their clothing. After they had been shooting for 

 some time, they became tired, and the older brother all at once said: 

 " Now then, it seems they are upon us. How long yet will this last?" 

 Hereupon he drew forth the lightning and the thunder and aimed 

 at the Apache and shot the lightning into the crowd. All their 

 enemies were slain, their camps burned up, and the two brothers 



