March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 87 



So the next morning he went over to the shrine of Achamali 

 (about one-eighth of a mile north of Oraibi), where the P6okongs 

 (Pookonghoya and Bal6ongawhoya) lived with their grandmother, 

 Spider Woman. Spider Woman told him to come in and sit down. 

 The two brothers were playing with their ball and did not hear the 

 chief enter. The woman told them to stop, as some one had come in, 

 but they would not listen, so she struck one over the back. "What 

 is it?" he said, but continued to play. She finally grasped him by 

 both arms and told him to stop as somebody had come in. So they 

 stopped their playing. Hereupon she said to the chief: "Now, 

 what is it? You certainly have come for some reason." "Yes," 

 he said; "these, my children here in Oraibi when they get wood they 

 are killed, and it is C6oyoko who kills them, and I want you to take 

 revenge on him. That is the reason why I have come here. " "Yes, " 

 they said, "he does it. He is our uncle and he is bad, but we shall 

 help you. We shall go there." Hereupon the chief asked them 

 what they would want for it. They said that he should make some 

 of those balls, when they had killed him, because those were what 

 they wanted. 



The chief hereupon returned to the village. The next morning 

 the two brothers took their bow, their arrows, which consisted of 

 lightning, and their ball. As they went along they kept striking 

 their ball before them. One of them struck it forward, and the 

 other one backward, and in this way they slowly proceeded. They 

 finally arrived at the Cdoyoko's house. This was located at Munaovi 

 on top of the mesa, a short distance east of Oraibi (about four miles). 

 When they came here they looked into the house, but C6oyoko was 

 gone. His wife, Cdoyok Wuhti, had also gone away. They followed 

 the tracks of the latter westward, and found her at a place sitting 

 and killing white lice in her dress. "There is somebody sitting," 

 they said to each other, and laughed at her. "Now let us do some- 

 thing to her," the elder brother said, "because she does not notice 

 us." Hereupon they both shot a lightning arrow at her, which 

 shattered her to pieces. "Now, let us go to the house," they said, 

 which they did. 



When they arrived there C6oyoko had not yet returned, so they 

 went in and looked around. They found in one of the rooms still 

 fresh human flesh that had just been fried, and they found hanging 

 on the wall a great many beads, clothing, and scalps that had been 

 taken from the Hopi whom the C6oyoko had killed. Here they now 

 waited for the return of C6oyoko. Soon they heard him come. He 

 was singing the same song that he had been singing before. "He 



