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came, sat down by his side, and cried : "Let us wail together for your 

 child, my dear." Then the Raven began to sing his wailing song and 

 said: "Your legs are thin." The Deer sang: "Your legs are lean." 

 The Raven wished to have the Deer for food. (He said : "Don't scold 

 me," and pushed him so that the Deer fell down the precipice near which 

 he was sitting.) He began to eat him at his anus. He opened him and 

 skinned him. Then his sisters came and carried the deer home. They 

 cut it, boiled it and it served as their food. 



5. The Origin op the Mink. 



Sx"umk-ts \va sonx ats alai'lc*. Sx'uma'lustusq T'otqoa'ya 

 It burnt the sun once. He burnt everything T'otqoa'ya 



alai'k". E'noxmaqs qumaito'o sk'a fi'nuxyeks wa slax wa 

 once. In the morning he rose and went to get fuel the much the 



ne'ix. Nuk'ali'k'ti sonxtx sx-uma'lus wa so'nx ats, sk*a atama'nauts 

 fuel. At noon the sun burnt all the sun, and they died 



wa slax wa L'umsta'tx". Slaxs ta xtsamk'tsut ta Lumsta'lx*. 

 the many the men. Many swam the men. 



Sk'x'nalustokts ti Snx t'aix' ta mnastx sk-a taia'mkits oaxe'nk* 

 He broke his bones the Snx he the his sou and threw him down 



sk'a t'o'kyas ala qeak- ats. 

 and minks at below (were.) 



Translation. 



A long time ago the sun burnt everything. T'otqoa'jj'a (m3'^thical name 

 of mink) burnt everything. He arose in the morning and went to get 

 fuel. At noon the sun burnt everything and many people died. Many 

 people (jumped into the water and) swam. Then Snx broke the bones of 

 his son, he threw him down (fi'om the sky) and he became a mink. 



Note. — This refers to the tradition of Mink or T'otqoa'ya, who was the 

 son of the sun god (Snx) and of a woman. He was maltreated by men and 

 visited his father in the sky, ascending to heaven in one version on the rays 

 of the sun, Snx's eyelashes ; in another version along a chain of arrows 

 which he had made. He carried the sun in his father's place, but dis- 

 obeyed the instructions of the latter, approaching too near the earth. 

 Then the woods began to burn, the rocks to crack and the water to boil. 

 Snx caught his son, flung him down and transformed him into the mink. 



6. The Creation op the Sun. 



X'LmE'nas ti Snx t'aix" wa name's wa x'na'suks. 

 The daughter of the Snx that one the four the girls. 



L'apskto'o qoa'x sk-a qoa'ls ul ta qlatx. i/ap anaik'sqto'o 

 He went the Raven (as) spike of flr to the water. Fetch she wished to 



11 qoalE'm iL niE'nas ti Snx t'aix" sk"a qa'axlas ul ta 

 the eldest one the daughter of the Snx that one and drank at, the 



qlatx. Qaaxlamfi'nix'isqto'o ta qoa'lstx. Atsiwilktfi'mk'imts qoa'x 

 water. She drank the spike. She became pregnant with the Raven 



