ABSTRACTS OF MYTHS 
1. AqjasX®/NasXENA—A woman who has a baby boy leaves her 
husband and builds a small house outside the village. In the evening, 
when the people dance, she desires to join them, but hesitates to leave 
her child. Finally she goes, and the child is carried away by 
AqjasX@nasXéna, who takes him to the house in which she lives 
with the Crane. The boy grows up, and is informed by the Crane 
that AqjasXé’nasXEéna is not his mother. The Crane tells him how to 
kill her. The boy does as instructed. He asks AqjasX@’nas Xena to 
carry him up the mountain. When they reach a region grown with 
white pine, he cuts her neck. Her soul comes out, and he breaks 
it. Then he climbs a white pine and shoots his arrows toward the 
sky, making a chain. He ties his bow to the lower end and climbs 
up. He meets the Darkness, who carries darkness in her bag. He 
meets different kinds of insects, who are descending to the earth. 
He meets a man in whose body two arrows are sticking. Soon he 
meets the Evening Star, who asks if he has seen his game, and 
explains that he is hunting men. He reaches a parting of trails, and, 
going on to the left, finds the trail strewn with human bones. He 
reaches a house, takes a basket down, in which he finds a woman. 
In the evening her five brothers come home, throwing their game— 
dead people—down in front of the door. Finally the father, the 
Evening Star, returns. They offer him human eyes to eat. The 
daughter is the Moon. He leaves them and returns, reaches the 
parting of the roads, and turns to the right. He finds the trail strewn 
with mountain-goat bones. The same thing happens as in the house of 
the Evening Star. The woman in this house is the Sun, the daughter 
of the Morning Star. The Moon’s brothers make war upon them and 
are defeated. One day the man looks down and sees his village. He 
becomes homesick, and is let down to the earth with his wife. He 
finds his little brother blind, and being maltreated by Blue-jay. 
He restores his eyesight and punishes Blue-jay. His wife has twin 
children who are united in the middle. Blue-jay cuts them apart, 
and they die; then the woman returns to the sky. The twins are 
the sundogs. 
2. Nr«cramTca’c—Blue-jay advises a girl to marry the Panther. 
She goes to the house of the animals, and by mistake marries the 
Beaver. She notices that the fish that he catches are really willow 
branches. She leaves the Beaver, who sends all the animals to bring 
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