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was always dancing for rain. In the fall when the squash were ripe 
they gathered them. They were told how to prepare them to eat. 
Thus the people learned. 
But they began to have troubles at White House. Utctsiti saw 
that her people were not living a good life. She decided to create 
officers. The first one she created was Macta hotcanyi. His duties 
were like those of Masewi and Oyoyewi (the War chiefs) today. But 
this officer did not do right so Utctsiti punished him by turning him 
into arat. The next to be created was Opi hotcanyi (Warrior chief). 
He was given the right to go to the tcaiyanyi (medicinemen) and ask 
them to help when anything was needed, to pray for rain or anything 
else that was needed. 
The people increased in numbers. Soon there were not enough 
crops to support them. Then Utctsiti went to work again with her 
manta and created all kinds of game animals. She gave to each 
kind its life, its habits, and its place to live. Then the men of White 
House were called out to see the game. 
The people continued to increase, and they kept on having troubles. 
There was a young woman, the daughter of the cacique. She was 
very industrious and very beautiful, but she would not have anything 
to do with men. They would go to her but she would always refuse 
them. This was the work of Tsityostinako and Utctsiti. One 
morning, very early, she was grinding corn. About Gyitsityuye 
(mid-morning) she felt tired so she lay down near an opening in the 
wall of the house. As the sun climbed higher in the heavens his rays 
came in through the hole in the wall and fell upon her. After a while 
she felt rested and went back to her grinding bins.” 
Within a few months the girl began to grow big and she wondered 
why. And everyone else wondered, too. Her father and mother 
begged her, almost forced her, to tell them how she had become preg- 
nant for they knew that no man had had contact with her. 
The time for delivery drew near. But before the baby was born 
the girl’s parents drove her out of the house, naked, because they 
were so ashamed and angry with her. The girl left the pueblo, going 
toward the west from White House. But before she left she called 
her four turkeys to her; she loved these turkeys as her own heart.” 
The girl went to the ash pile on the west side of the village; the turkeys 
were following her. When they got there one of the turkeys said to 
her, ‘““Mother, hit me on the neck, hard.’”’ ‘‘Why should I do that?” 
the girl asked, ‘“‘I love you. I shouldn’t hurt you.” But the turkey 
12 The episode of the twin War gods, born ofa virgin and sired by the Sun, is recounted in the origin myths 
in all the Keresan pueblos. 
13 This episode about the turkeys is not commonly associated with the birth of the War twins among 
the Keres. But see the Santo Domingo myth, ‘‘Turkeys Befriend a Girl” (White, 1935, pp. 191-194), in 
which the same events befall an ordinary girl in a modern pueblo. 
