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covered with water, Humming-bird, led by Buzzard, flew into the sky, crying out 
that they would return after the water should have subsided. Buzzard soared aloft 
to an opening in the sky, through which he passed, but his companion could not 
follow him. Both were caught in the passage and there they hung. Humming-bird 
cried because it was cold in the sky region, but Woodpecker made a nest of feathers 
to keep them warm. The flood rose until the water reached them and there may still 
be seen on the feathers of the woodpecker marks where the water touched him. 
The olla in which Tcuhu was concealed floated far away into the southwest, but 
that containing Earth Doctor went northwest. The third, in which was Tohouse, 
went east. The tracks of the ollas of Earth Doctor and Tohouse Doctor crossed sev- 
eral times and as they did so Earth Doctor addressed the other as Elder Brother. 
There were seven persons saved from the flood, and these were called brothers. Their 
names are Tcuwut, Teuhu, Tohouse, Buzzard, Woodpecker, Humming-bird, and an 
unknown. When the water had subsided these seven brothers held a council to deter- 
mine the position of the middle of the earth. Woodpecker was sent to the east and 
Humming-bird to the west, to find it. Three times they returned without success, 
but on their fourth meeting they reported that they had found the middle of the 
earth. 
Tcuhu plucked a hair from the right side of his head and, putting it in his mouth, 
drew it back and forth, stretching it and miraculously forming a snake, which he laid 
on the earth at his north side. He took a hair from the left side of his head and, stretch- 
ing it out as before, created a second snake, which he laid at the west side. He then 
laid one at the south and another at the east.1 These snakes prevent the water from 
flooding the land and cause it to flow in channels or rivers. Tcuhu created ants, 
which he put on the wet ground; these threw up hills that became dryland. After 
the water had subsided Earth Doctor, Teuhu, and Tohouse set themselves to re-create 
men, having agreed not to inform one another what kind of beings each would make. 
To prevent one another from seeing their work they faced in different directions—Earth 
Doctor to the east, Tohouse to the south, and Teuhu to the west. When their crea- 
tions were finished it was found that Tcuhu had made men similar in form to those 
now living, but that Tohouse’s men had webbed fingers like ducks, while those cre- 
ated by Earth Doctor had but one leg each and subsisted not on food, but on smells, 
which they inhaled. Tcuhu asked Tohouse why he made his men with webbed 
fingers. ‘‘That they may live in water,’’ responded Tohouse. Tcuhu was dissat- 
isfied with the beings made by Tohouse, and he threw them into the water, where they 
became ducks. The creations of Earth Doctor became fishes and snakes; he was 
much pleased with his children, which descended into the Underworld where he 
daily visits them. 
When Earth Doctor stuck his staff into the ground to cause the flood and water cov- 
ered the earth, most of the people perished, but some escaped and followed White 
Feather, who fled to the top of Superstition Mountains. The water rose, covering all 
the valley until it was as high as the line of white sandstone which is a conspicuous 
landmark. White Feather, surrounded by his followers, tried all his magic in vain to 
prevent the further rise of the flood. When he saw he was powerless to prevent this, 
he gathered all his people and consulted them, saying, ‘‘I have exhausted all 
magic powers but one, which I will now try.’’ Taking in his left hand a medicine- 
stone from his pouch, he held it at arm’s length, at the same time extending his 
right hand toward the sky. After he had sung four songs he raised his hand and 
seized the lightning and with it struck the stone which he held. This broke into 
splinters with a peal of thunder and all his people were transformed into the pinna- 
cles of stone which can now be seen ‘projecting from the summit of one of the peaks 
of the Superstition Mountains. 
1 It is thought that dreams come from the east and that the west sends cold. 
