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another shall produce chia, that another shall produce Wild Amaranth, 

 etc. ; likewise that another shall produce cottontail rabbits, that an- 

 other shall produce ducks, that another shall produce geese, that 

 another shall produce deer, etc. To each one he gave the power, 

 now to produce seeds, now animals, of the kind that they eat. And 

 still at the present time, those who pretend to be their descendants, 

 claim to have this power, and the [other] Indians consult them, asking 

 that they produce many seeds, that they make the ducks tame, and 

 they pay them well, so that they will be i:)leased, for they believe that 

 if they do not pay them, there will be no seeds, nor will they get game. 



After Chinigchinix had given the power, as we have said, to the 

 descendants of Oiot, which must have been the time of dixit et 

 factum est, he created the people that he had told them about, and 

 Chinigchinix made these people from a little mud of the shore of a 

 lake, and these are the Indians that now exist, and he did not make 

 merely one but a number of men and women, and he told them : 

 " He who obeys me not or believes not in what I teach him, him shall 

 I punish, to him shall I send bears to bite, rattlesnakes to sting, and 

 other misfortunes." And he taught them the law which they should 

 observe henceforth with its rites and ceremonies. 



The first commandment which he gave them was that they should 

 build him a temple in which they were to worship him, offer him sacri- 

 fices, veneration, and cult, this same Chinigchinix furnishing the de- 

 sign or model of how the temple was to be built. This Chinigchinix, 

 whom from that time on they considered as God, the Indians say had no 

 father or mother, and all are ignorant of his origin. I have not been 

 able to obtain the etymology of the name Chinigchinix, nor do the 

 Indians know what it means or its significance, as is also the case Avith 

 the name Ouiot. It is true that they are proper names, and for that 

 reason must have and should have their origin, but so far I am ignorant 

 of it. 



They believed that the God Chinigchinix was everywhere present, 

 that he saw everything, though it were dark night, but that no one 

 could see him ; that he was a friend of the good and punished the 

 wicked much. This God Chinigchinix has three distinct names, 

 namely: Saor, Quoar, and Tohct. Each name has its own meaning, 

 for Saor signifies or means the time when the said Chinigchinix did 

 not yet know how to dance. Quoar when he already knew how to dance. 

 And Tobet when he danced wearing a little skirt or apron of feathers, 

 adorned with feathers like a crown on his head, and painted up. And 

 they say that this Chinigchinix went away dancing to Heaven. And 

 this kind of dress their God Chinigchinix commanded them to use in 

 their feasts, and they use it in the special dances of their great feasts. 



