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said, ‘Do as I ask.”’ So the girl hit the turkey lightly with a small 
stick. The turkey said, ‘‘Please, hit me harder.’”’ This time the girl 
hit the turkey harder. The turkey stumbled and coughed up a manta. 
Kotcininako (Yellow Woman; a generic term for women in myths) 
was pleased to see the manta. The turkey told her to put the manta 
on. Then the second turkey told the girl to hit him. The girl did 
not want to, but finally she hit the turkey hard and the turkey coughed 
up a woven belt (hopipya’nyi). They went through the same pro- 
cedure with the third turkey, who produced moccasins and leggings, 
and with the fourth turkey, who coughed up strings of beads. So 
now Kotcininako was completely and beautifully dressed. 
Kotcininako kept on going toward the west, where she knew not. 
After awhile she met an old lady who was sitting down, doing her hair. 
The old lady called Kotcininako by name, asking her ‘‘Where are you 
going? Youshouldn’t be traveling in your condition.’”’ ‘My parents 
have driven me out of our home,” the girl told her, “because I could 
not tell them how I became with child.”’ ‘Yes, I know,” the old lady 
said, “later on you will learn who caused your trouble. But now you 
are welcome in my house. Come in!’ This old lady was Tsityo- 
stinako. She walked a little way and came to a small hole in the 
ground. ‘‘This is my home,” she said. But the girl looked at the 
little hole and said ‘How can I go in there? It is too small.” But 
the old lady said, ‘Just walk in.”” When Kotcininako stepped in the 
door it became larger. She went in; the old lady followed. She put 
the girl in a room by herself. On the fourth morning the girl gave 
birth to twin boys. On the fourth morning after they were born the 
old lady took the boys out at sunrise to introduce them to the world 
and to the sun. She named the boys Masewi and Oyoyewi. 
Meanwhile at White House things were becoming worse. The 
people were doing bad things. That is why Masewi and Oyoyewi 
were brought into the world, to control the people. 
The twins went to K’oaik vtc (place of the sunrise) to see their father, 
the Sun.'* Then they returned to White House. There were some 
monsters (ckoyo) in the countryside about White House. They were 
catching people and eating them.” 
Naotsityi began to show her powers. She had different kinds of 
tealyanyi; she was doing her work. Naotsityi invented things more 
wonderful than those that Utctsiti had created. Naotsityi created 
14In Keresan mythology the Sun subjects the boys to a number of tests to determine whether they really 
are his sons. They pass the tests, the Sun accepts them, and sends them on their way with great powers. 
My informant omitted all this. 
15 Cycles of stories about the adventures of the War twins with the ogres, and their visits to inhospitable 
pueblos which they turn into stone, common in Keresan mythology, were omitted bymy informant. How- 
ever, he launched into another cycle about the contests between Utctsiti, the mother of the Indians, and 
her sister, Naotstiti, the mother of other races. 
