March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 167 



After they had left the kiva, Spider Woman told them all that 

 they could now go to their respective homes. She took her grand- 

 child with her and also returned to her home with him. Here she 

 told him that he should fear nothing after this because nobody would 

 now hurt him, that having been the only one that was bad and dan- 

 gerous. The Wren had in the meanwhile been down to this earth 

 and had seen the parents of the young man and found out that they 

 were longing for their lost son, and when it returned it told Spider 

 Woman about it. So about four or five days after they had returned 

 from Hasohkata's kiva, she told him that he might go home now, as 

 his father and mother were homesick after him. She did not, how- 

 ever, tell him how she had found it out, and she promised him that 

 the next day she would go with him. So the next day they went to 

 the opening through which the Eagles had brought the young man. 

 They looked down and could see nothing. Everything looked as if 

 we are now looking upward. So Spider Woman placed around the 

 opening sticks and brush of all kinds just the same as around a 

 spider hole. Over this she then spun a great deal of web and before 

 cutting the thread she told the young man to mount her back. Here- 

 upon they began to descend, the thread of spider web unraveling at 

 the opening as they descended farther and farther downward. She 

 advised the young man to keep his eyes closed, which he did. They 

 struck the earth somewhere close to the field of the young man's 

 parents. Here he left Spider Woman and started to his parents' 

 home himself. When he arrived at his home one of the neighbors 

 said to his parents :" Some one has come; your child has come," but 

 they would not believe it. "He will never come, he is gone," the 

 mother said. When he entered the house he said: "I have come." 

 "Who are you?" the father said. "I am Chorzhvukfqolo. " "No, 

 you are not the one." "Yes, I am," he said; but at last the father 

 recognized him and said, "Yes, you have come." The mother then, 

 too, recognized him and she was very happy. The sisters who had 

 been waiting and longing for their brother, were also very happy that 

 he had returned. So they were all united again and maybe they are 

 still living there. 



50. THE HAWK AND THE CHILD.' 



A long time ago some Navaho lived east of Orafbi. They had 

 stolen, as occasionally happened, a little Hopi boy. They were very 

 hard on him, making him work constantly and giving him very little 



' Told by 06y4\vaima (Oraibi) . 



