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flesh of his body, and devoured it; and only his bare bones were left 

 where he had been sitting. As soon as his brother, Mouth At Each 

 End, came ashore from the lake, he looked, and, behold! his brother's 

 skeleton was lying there at the foot of a large spruce tree. Then the 

 brother who had just come from out of the water cried because he 

 saw his brother's bare bones lying there. He went toward them and 

 tried to restore him to life. He took up some earth and rubbed it 

 with his hands over the bare bones of his brother, in order to restore 

 the flesh. Soon the bare bones became covered with flesh again, but 

 they had no skin. Therefore he took a small root to make smews, and 

 Mouth At Each End danced around the body with his supernatural 

 powers. Then he took up moss and rubbed it over the flesh, and it 

 became skin. Thus he made him alive again; and he made his brother 

 a shaman, and gave him the name Devoured By The Martens. 



Mouth At Each End caught the martens which had eaten his 

 brother's flesh, and put the live martens into his brother, and he gave 

 him a vessel of blood to be his supernatural power. They went 

 home with the live Grizzly Bear, who walked down with them. As 

 soon as they came to then house, Mouth At Each End was able to 

 cure all kinds of diseases, and he was able to heal persons who had 

 died suddenly. 



Then all the supernatural beings in the mountains heard that 

 Mouth At Each End had a really great supernatural helper, and tried 

 to kill him. Mouth At Each End, however, knew about it, and was 

 ready to fight with them. As soon as one of the supernatural powers 

 or a shaman came secretly to kill him, the shaman Mouth At Each 

 End sent his supernatural helpers Mouth At Each End and Cuttlefish, 

 who killed those who tried to murder then master; or, if a shaman 

 came through the water, Mouth At Each End and Cuttlefish would 

 go into the water and destroy him; or, if a shaman with his super- 

 natural helpers came overland, the Grizzly Bear would fight him and 

 destroy him; or, if a supernatural power came up flying through the 

 air, Thunderbird and Lightning with Hail would destroy him. 

 Therefore the supernatural beings from all parts of the world could 

 not kill this shaman, Mouth At Each End. 



At last two great shamans came along in then canoe. We call 

 these hermaphrodites. Two of them were hi one canoe. Then 

 Mouth At Each End sent down his supernatural helpers, Mouth At 

 Each End and Cuttlefish, and the two shamans sent up then super- 

 natural helper, which was Blood. Thus the supernatural helpers of 

 Mouth At Each End were killed by the Blood; and both of them died, 

 Mouth At Each End and Cuttlefish, and the shaman Mouth At Each 

 End also died. 



Only his brother, Devoured By Martens, remained. He sent forth 

 his own supernatural helpers, Blood and Martens, who killed the two 



