PANTHER AND Lynx (TOLD 1891) 
There were the Panther and his younger brother, the Lynx. Every 
morning the Panther went hunting elk. In the evening he came home. 
He told his younger brother: ‘*Don’t leave our fire.” He left him 
often; then the Lynx went to play, and played a long time. When he 
“ame home, the fire had gone out. Then he thought: ‘‘1I will swim 
across to get some fire.” He swam across and opened the door of the 
house. There was an old blind woman. She could not see anything. 
She tended the fire of the Grizzly Bears. Lynx took a firebrand and 
put it down at some little distance. The old woman looked after the 
firebrands. Now she had lost one. Then she spread her legs and struck 
her vulva often, crying: ‘‘ You, you, you have eaten it, you have 
eaten it, the fire, the fire, vulva, vulva!” Then Lynx looked at the 
Ixjoayawa’ Icra’KjANE KjA Ipu’KoA 
THE PANTHER THEIR MYTH AND THE LYNX 
Texela’-ittX ikjoaya’wa kja ipu’koa, ia’m XTX ikjoaya’wa. Wax 
There were the panther and the lynx, his younger the panther’s. The next 
brother morning 
qayoix; imdlekmmax  nigElo’ix. Tso’yustiX  niXkjoa’mamx. 
he went: elks he went to In the evening he came home. 
hunt. 
Itcid’lXam ia’mXTX: ‘‘Nict amaqeElo’quqa atxa/toL.” Qa’watiX 
He said to him his younger “Not leave it our fire,’’ Several times 
brother: 
Lx igiqn’loquq. Aqa i0d/ya igixkjaya’wolalemam. E’yarqtiX 
maybe he left him. Then he went he went to play. Long time 
igixkjaya’wolalemtck. Ige’Xkjoa. Toi Xkjoa’mam. A’nqa 
he played. He went home. He came home. Already 
teXup igi’/x6x acta’tor. Igixnd’xoa-it ipu’koa: ‘‘Anukjoe’x‘ia 
extin- ~ was their fire. He thought the lynx: “T will swim 
guished 
wa kjanate’ton. Anugoa’lemam = a/ton.” lo’kjuiXa ipu’koa. 
thus across. - Iwill fetch it fire.” He swam the lynx. 
Igiga’ptckamiX. Itcixn’laqikiX. A, LOxt  Lqjéyo'qt 
He came up to the house. He opened the door. Ah, there was anold woman 
aLa’pjonr/nkau. Niveqé@ ina’géqame. A, cekjEnx‘a’t wuXi ara’ton 
a blind one. Not at all she saw. Ah, tied together that their fire 
lengthwise 
Lteay!muke. Ited’gnlea VEXt wuXi aqa/leptckiX. Itcaxé’ma mank 
the grizzly bears. He took it one that firebrand. He placed it alittle 
kelatX. Iktukjuma’/nanemtck wuXi aqjeyo’qt taXi tqa’leptckiX. 
far. She looked at them that old woman those firebrands. 
Igona’xtatck aveXt. Lak ign’tdx tga’qo-tt. Inaxelge’liXrtck 
She had lost one. Spread she did her legs. She slapped herself 
them 
Le’gakei: ‘‘ Mai‘ka maika’ mo’welq; mowii'lqj, wa’tut watt’L, 
her hands: “You you you ate it you ate it, the fire the fire, 
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