2 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. V. 



come. Then he took a rod and made different motions over the waters 

 for the rivers. Where the dirt was the thickest he caused mountains. 



After the earth was made, there was nothing to grow. It was 

 barren. This man then says, "I have to have servants to watch and to 

 dig the earth." So the Father made the sun and moon, to represent 

 man and woman. After this, he said, "Before I do more I have got 

 to make a man and to make a woman to inhabit this earth to represent 

 the sun and the moon." So he went to work to make clay images of 

 those two people, man and woman. So he made them out of clay. 

 There they were in clay. The sun causes the trees, the grass and the 

 vegetation to grow. After the sun and moon had been made and these 

 two people, he caused the trees and the grass and vegetation and the 

 animals and beasts and birds to live. 



Then these two people, man and woman, were identical. This 

 man and woman were virtuous at that time. There was nothing of 

 connection at that time. It was commanded that there be a day and 

 night, seasons of the year and that there should be summer and winter, 

 t^hat the grass be new one season and old one season. When the 

 command was made that there were to be lojdges, the Willow lodge was 

 commarided to be, and also other lodges — the Thunder-bird, Club- 

 Board, Buffalo Women's, Sweat lodge, Lime-Crazy, Dog-Soldier and 

 the Old Men's lodge. The oldest one was the Sweat lodge. 



Man was now asked, "Where are you going to place yourself?" 

 After thinking^ of it some time he left it entirely with the Father, 

 and they were left just the way they were, and time passed on and on, 

 and all the fruits grew. Then the Father said for male and female 

 beasts of every description and fowls, genital organs shall be located, 

 but for the human beings — choice how they shall be located — that shall 

 be decided later on. 



Then the Father told this, man and woman that all the lodges or 

 commands laid down for them should be made up of birds, beasts, and 

 the different kinds of paints and fruits and that the animals should 

 never be worthy to belong to any of these lodges.^— D. 



Told by Hawkan. See also Nos. i and 2. A much more extended and detailed Origin Myth 

 may be found in the author's "Arapaho Sun Dance," Field Columbian Museum, Anthropologi- 

 cal Series, Vol. IV. The Flat-Pipe is the tribal "medicine" of the Arapaho, and is in the keeping 

 of Weasel-Bear, in Wyoming. The "ofhcial" version of the ."Arapaho Origin Myth is told only during 

 the performance of rites connected with the Flat-Pipe ceremony. The Flat-Pipe in Arapaho 

 mythology is really the Creator, and is held in greater veneration than the Sun. 



For the origin of death, which is usually told in connection with this m^th, see No. 41. 



