March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 65 



Ochitana, iyawa, iyava 

 Ochitana! iyava, iyava. 

 Alas ! (This is the only word of which meaning could be 



obtained.) 

 Hininiya ihihi io hiiohiio, h- h- h- h-. 



Hereupon they both went home into the mountain where there 

 were a great many Katcinas, men, women, youths, and maidens. 

 " Why do you come alone? " they asked the Hotdto, The latter here- 

 upon repeated what he had said to the Heh^a Katcina. "We shall 

 sometime take revenge," said the chief of the Katcinas, and ordered 

 the Katcinas to assemble and to dress up. Hereupon they made it 

 hail for three days. Early in the morning of the fourth day they 

 caused a cloud to rise which hovered over the mountains. This was 

 their emblem or standard (natsi); it was a very beautiful cloud. 

 Then the Katcinas ate their morning meal. 



The people in the village saw the cloud. They had gone to their 

 fields early in the morning for they had many fields around the vil- 

 lage. After breakfast many more clouds began to rise above the 

 mountains, towering upon each other. They soon spread out and 

 during the afternoon they covered the sky, coming up from all four 

 sides. The corn of the Hopi had at this time begun to mature and 

 the people felt very happy over the clouds. They expected that they 

 would have a good rain now. Towards noon it began to thunder 

 and to rain in the mountains and the clouds began to move towards 

 the Hopi village. When they had arrived there it was thundering 

 and lightning and it rained great hailstones. All the crops were 

 destroyed, and even the people, although they left their houses and 

 fled to the kivas, were killed. Only one man and one woman re- 

 mained alive. When everything had been destroyed, the clouds said: 

 "We will stop now and return," and then they began to disperse in 

 all directions, some of them returning to the mountains. The 

 Katcinas were then happy saying, "Now we have revenged our- 

 selves, let it be thus. " The woman that had been spared again bore 

 children and the village was by and by again inhabited. 



14. HOW THE CIRCLE (PONGO) KATCINA AND HIS WIFE BECAME 



STARS.' 



Haliksai! In Orafbi the people were living. In the north-west- 

 em part of the village was at that time a kiva called Hamis-kiva. 

 Somewhat south of this kiva close to the present site of the Han6- 



* Told by Lomin6mtiwa (Oraibi). 



