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not fall in rain, but caiiit' in as rivers between the mesas, and contiuued 

 flowing from all sides until the jn'ople and all animals fled to the mesa. 

 The waters continued to rise until nearly level with the mesa top, and 

 Sus'sistinnako cried, "Where shall my people go? Where is the road 

 to the north, lie looking to the north, the road to the west, he facing 

 the west, the road to the south, he turning south, the road to the 

 east, he facing east? Alas, I see the waters are everywhere." And 

 all of his theurgists sang four days and nights before their altars and 

 made many ott'erings, but still the waters continued to rise as before. 

 Sus'sistinnako said to the sun: "My son, you will ascend and pass 

 over the world above ; your course will be from the north to the south, 

 and you will return and tell me what you think of it." On his return 

 the sun said, "Mother, I did as you bade me, and I did not like the 

 road." Again he told him to ascend and pass over the world from the 

 west to the east, and on his return Sus'sistinnako inquired how he 

 liked that road. "It may be good for some, mother, but I did not like 

 it." "You will again ascend and jiass over the straight road from east 

 to west," and upon the suu's return the father inquired what he thought 

 of that road. His reply was, "I am much contented; I like the road 

 much." Then Sus'sistinnako said, "My son, you will ascend each day 

 and pass over the world from east to west." Upon each day's journey 

 the sun stops midway from the east to the center of the world to eat 

 his breakfast, in the center to eat his dinner, and midway the center to 

 the west to eat his supper, he never failing to take his three meals 

 daily, stopping at these particular points to obtain them. 



The sun wears a^ shirt of dressed deerskin, and leggings of the same, 

 reaching to his thighs; the shirt and leggings are fringed; his mocca- 

 sins are also of deerskin and embroidered in yellow, red, and turkis 

 beads; he wears a kilt of deerskin, the kilt having a snake painted 

 upon it; he carries a bow and arrows, the quiver being of cougar skin, 

 hanging over his shoulder, and he holds his bow in his left hand and 

 an aiTOw in his right; he still wears the mask which protects him from 

 view of the people of the earth. An eagle plume with a parrot plume 

 on either side, ornaments the top of the mask, and an eagle plume is on 

 either side of the mask and one is at the bottom; the hair around the 

 head and face is red like fire, and when it moves and shakes the people 

 can not look closely at the mask; it is not intended that they should 

 observe closely and thereby know that instead of seeing the sun they 

 see only his mask ; the heavy line encircling the mask is yellow, and 

 indicates rain. (Fig. 14.) 



The moon came to the upper world with the sun and he also wears a 

 mask. 



Each night the sun passes by the house of Siis'sistinnako, who asks 

 him: "How are my children above, how many have died to-day, and 

 how many have been born today!" He lingers with him only long 

 enough to answer his questions. He then passes on to his house in 

 the east. 



