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THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES 



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this time the Ancient of Otters never said a word. When the third 

 messenger was seen in the distance, the Ancient of Otters started off 

 at once, and went home. 



When he got home his grandmother made for him an ordinary sized 

 bed and a very small one, too. She set them up in the other room of 

 her house. She made the Ancient of Otters lie down on the larger 

 one, and she covered him with bearskins. As he was lying there and 

 his grandmother was sitting close to the fire the Woman was coming 

 in the distance, her garments rattling on account of the silver that 

 she wore. On reaching the house she asked the old woman, "Where 

 is that person?" The old woman replied, "I have not seen any one 

 at all." "I refer to the person who stays here," said the visitor. 

 "Pshaw! Is it that ugly boy whom you wish to see?" said the old 

 woman. "That is he," said the visitor. " He was sitting around here 

 for a while after eating some stewed fish, and 1 think that he is now 

 \ymg down with unwashed hands," said the old woman. The visitor 

 entered the house, making her garments rattle as she moved. 

 Addressing the Ancient of Otters, she said, " Lie farther over!" But 

 he did not move. She thought that she would get over him and lie 

 down on the other side, but in attempting it she fell to the ground, 

 and her garments rattled exceedingly as she kept falling about. She 

 rose to her feet and said, "lam much ashamed to-night. Though 

 you shall not be able to see me well during the day, 1 shall be there 

 [in the sky]." Then she went up above when day came, and they say 

 that she is still there. They say that because of the treatment of the 

 Sun Woman by the Ancient of Otters, i. e. , his making her ashamed, 

 she went up above, and she is still there. And because of the words 

 of the Sun Woman she is always one whom people can never see well. 



30. The Moon 



Nahi'^te' 



Moon 



aHatka' 



child 



kupa'hani o^'ni. 



disappeared in the past. 



apu'x ka° 



felt him when 



su pi 



black 



ha'^ 



and 



wu'xuki 



was 

 ashamed 



ha"^' 



and 



pu's ka'^ 



night when 



e' 



he 



E'keo'^nidi"' 



Therefore 



E'keo°'nidi°' 



Therefore 



supi 



black 



na'nki 



he sits 



xya . 



always. 



ko'wohi'k nanki' xya, etu' xa. 



up above he sits al- they al- 



ways say ways. 



Tcidike'-ya'^xa'*' a'xesa'hi ita'mini 



Sometimes money 



txa'xti 



alone 



uda'ti 



light 



ha'^ 



and 



na'nki 



he Bits 



pusi 



night 



ka° klipa'hani o'^'ni. 



when he disap- in the 



peared past. 



xya', etu' xa. 



usually they say always. 



Ekedi^ 



Therefore 



pusi 



night 



he was 

 dressed in 



dixya'^' 



when 



NOTES 



The Moon is a man in Biloxi mythology. Compare the German 

 de?' Mond. This text is evidentlv a fragment, but it was all that was 

 remembered. 



