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2. Ko'-pisb-tai-:i : The cloud, liglitning, thunder, rainbow peoples, and 



all animal life not included under the first and 

 third heads. 



3. Ka'-'suna: Beings having human bodies and monster heads, who 



are personated in Sia by men and women wearing 

 masks. 



After a time the younger sister closed the door and they returned to 

 the front room. liTot a word had been spoken except by the younger. 

 As the elder sister left she said, "Tomorrow you come to my house." 

 Sus'sistinnako whispered in the ear of the younger, " To-morrow you 

 will see fine things in your. sister's house, but they Mill not be good; 

 they will be bad." Now'utset then said: "Before the Suu has left his 

 home we will go together to see him; we will each have a wand ou our 

 heads made of the long white fluffy feathers of the under tail of the eagle, 

 and we will place them vertically ou our heads that they may see the 

 sun when he first comes out;" and the younger sister replied: "You 

 are the elder and must go before, and your plumes will see the sun first; 

 mine can not see him until he has traveled far, because I am so small; 

 you are the greater and must go before." Though she said this she 

 knew better; she knew that though she was smaller in stature she was 

 the greater and more important woman. That night Sus'sistinnako 

 talked much to frt'sPt. She said : " Now that you have created the 

 Ka'*suna you must create a man as messenger between the sun and the 

 Ka"suna and another as messenger between the moon and the Ka'*suna. 



The first man created was called Ko'shairi ; he not only acts as cou- 

 rier between the sun and the Ka"suna, but he is the companion, the 

 jester and musician (the flute bsing his instrument) of the sun; he is 

 also mediator between the people of the earth and the sun ; when act- 

 ing as courier between the suQ and the Ka"suna and vice versa and as 

 mediator between the people of the earth and the sun he is chief for 

 the sun ; when accompanying the sun in his daily travels he furnishes 

 him with music and amusement ; he is then the servant of the sun. The 

 second man created was Quer'ninna, his duties being identical with 

 those of the Ko'shairi, excepting that tlie moon is his particular chief 

 instead of the sun, both, however, being sulwrdinate to the sun. 



After the creation of Ko'shairi and Quer'ranna, Ut'set called Shu- 

 ah-kai (a small black bird with white wings) to her and said: 



"To-morrow my sister and I go to see the sun when he first leaves 

 his house. We will have wands ou our heads, we will be side by side; 

 she is much taller than I; the sun will see her face before he sees mine, 

 and that will not be good; you must go to-morrow morning very early 

 near the house of the sun and tiike a itluiiie from your left wing, but 

 none from your right; spread your wings and rest in front of the sun 

 as he comes from Iiis house." The two women started very early in 

 the moruiug to greet the rising sun. They were accompanied by all 

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