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in existence, their names : Sleep, Hunger, Misery, and Louse. Their 

 father was slaiu. 



The deities caine together and built the first hut ; it was made in 

 the form of a cone. Their form is still preserved in the construction of 

 the Navajo " ko-hran." 



Spanning from east to west, the sides were of sun rays. The north 

 and south sides were of rays from the rainbow. There were assembled 

 at the making of the house — 



First man and first woman — man and wife, Hos-di-velti : " He who 

 never speaks/' he is also called Hai-yolc-kalc, " The god of the early 

 day light." Tjalc. kelc, " Darkness," a female deity. These two are 

 also husband and wife. 



I-ya-dilc-kilg, "The black (cloud) above." A male deity. 



Na-asau, the first-earth, a female deity, these two are also husband 

 and wife. 



Tjon-a ai, " The sun god," and his wife called Asun nut le-hi, a female, 

 and the most highly esteemed of all their deities. At night-fall she 

 has grown to be a wrinkled, exhausted old woman, but she renews her 

 beauty and virginity on the dawn of every morning. 



Kle on a ai, the moon god, and his wife, Yola-kai asun, White Shell 

 Woman. There were also present the seven wind gods, each of differ- 

 ent color, four of them beneficent and three of them maliguaut and de- 

 structive. 



Hos-dj-yelti brought with him the niue different kinds of corn known 

 to the Navajo. White, yellow, blue, speckled, etc. 



These were laid in this hut and from them were formed four pairs of 

 people, male and female, and one old woman. The gods supplied these 

 corn people with everything necessary, except shoes, and these the peo- 

 ple made for themselves from three kinds of grass, three kinds of 

 yucca, and the bark of the juniper. 



The people continued to make and wear these shoes for a very long- 

 while. One day when a great many of the corn men were sitting in a 

 hut making shoes and sleeping-mats aud door curtains from grass and 

 yucca, Hos dj-yelti, wearing a mask, appeared among them. As I 

 have said, he never speaks, but conveys his meaning by signs. He 

 stooped and drew with his finger the figure of a foot-print on the sand — 

 the left foot — beginning at the toe and drawing the left side, then from 

 the toe drawing the right side. 



The sole they were to make from the neck skin of the badger, the 

 uppers from deerskin, aud the shoe was to be sewed with sinew from 

 the back of the mountain sheep. The name of the corn man who owned 

 this hut was E-dil-klj i, the cutter, aud he proceeded to make the first 

 shoe, and as he finished it all the men pronounced it beautiful. 



Coyote came in to admire the new foot-gear, and after he went out 

 the shoe was missed and every one knew that Coyote had stolen it. 

 E-dil-kij i cursed Coyote and all his family, and then went on making 



