FEWKES | TRADITIONS 47 
reported that the bird refused pumpkin seed. The father then said, “Put the seed 
into a blanket and spread it before the bird; then perhaps you may capture him.”’ 
Still Parrot would not eat, and the father thereupon suggested watermelon seeds. 
But Parrot was not tempted by these nor by seeds of cat’s claw, nor was he charmed 
by charcoal.1 
The chief of Casa Grande then told his daughter to tempt Parrot with corn well 
cooked and soaked in water, in a new food-bowl. Parrot was obdurate and would not 
taste it, but, noticing a turquoise bead of blue-green color, he swallowed it; when the 
two daughters of the chief saw this they brought to him a number of blue stones, 
which the bird greedily devoured. Then the girls brought valuable turquoise beads, 
which Parrot ate; then he flew away. The girls tried to capture him, but without 
success. He made his way through the air to the home of the Sun in the East, where 
he drank an emetic and vomited the turquoises, which the Sun god distributed 
among that people which reside near his house of rising, beyond the eastern moun- 
tains. This is the reason, it is said, why these people have many stone ornaments 
made of this material. 
But when the chief of Casa Grande heard that Parrot had been sent to steal his tur- 
quoises, he was greatly vexed and caused a violent rain to fall that extinguished all 
fires in the East. His magic power over the Rain god was so great that he was able 
even to extinguish the light of the Sun, making it very cold. Then the old priests 
gathered in council and debated what they should do. Man-Fox was first sent 
by them into the East to get fire, but he failed to obtain it, and then Road-runner 
was commissioned to visit Thunder, the only one that possessed fire, and steal his 
lighted torch. But when Thunder saw him running off with the torch he shot an 
arrow at the thief and sparks of fire were scattered around, setting afire every tree, 
bush, and other inflammable object, from which it happens that there is fire in every- 
thing. 
HOW MORNING GREEN LOST HIS POWER OVER THE WIND GODS AND 
THE RAIN GODS 
Morning Green is reputed to have had special magic power over two supernatural 
beings, known as Wind-manand Rain-man. Ithappened atone time that many people 
were playing a game with canes in the main plaza of Morning Green’s settlement [Casa 
Grande], on the south side of the compound; among these were Rain-man and Wind- 
man. The latter laid a wager that if he lost, his opponent should look on the charms 
of a certain maid. When Wind-man lost, in revenge he sent a great wind that blew 
aside her blanket, at which indignity she cried and complained of Wind-man to 
Morning Green, who was so angry that he made Rain-man blind, obliging him to be 
led about by his servant, the wind; he also banished both from Casa Grande. They 
went to the San Bernardino Mountains in what is now California and lived at Eagle 
Mountain, near the present town of Wadsworth, where as a consequence it rains 
continually. 
After the banishment of these two the rain ceased at Casa Grande for four years, and 
Morning Green sent Humming-bird to the mountains where Wind-man and Rain-man 
resided. Humming-bird carried with him a white feather, which he held aloft to detect 
thepresence ofthe wind. Three times he thus tried to discover Wind-man by the move- 
ment of this feather, but was not successful. When at last Humming-bird came to a 
place where there was much green grass he again held up the feather to see whether it 
showed any movement of the air. It responded by indicating a slight wind, and later 
he came to the spot where Wind-man and Rain-man were, but found them asleep. 
1 Charcoal, the product of fire, is regarded by the Hopi Yaya, or fire priests, as possessing most powerful 
magic in healing diseases, especially those of the skin in which there is a burning sensation. 
