20 CIKqA THEIR MYTH. Khnolog? 



found a person in that basket. [The person said:] ''O my children! 

 Your mother is bad. You see me. I am only half now ! Quick ! Hang 

 me up again, else your mother will come and devour us ! " They took 

 their father and hung him uj) again. lu the evening their mother 

 came back. Now the boys were angry. They became young men; 

 then they said to their father: "We will cure you." "Well," he 

 replied. Now they took him and carried him to the river. They put 

 him under water. Then they took their mother and transformed her 

 into a dog. 



Now the two young men [who were now called Cikia] traveled on. 

 They came to a lake in which they saw a swan with two heads. " I 

 will shoot that swan." "Oh, don't shoot it. Many monsters are in 

 that lake." He, however, took his arrows and shot the swan. "I will 

 swim across the lake and get it." He threw off his blanket, swam, and 

 took hold of the swan. Then he disappeared under water. His elder 

 brother cried. He picked up stones and made a fire in which he heated 

 the stones. When they were hot he threw them into the lake and 

 made it boil. Then the lake became dry. Then he said: "Oh, how 

 many monsters there are ! " Then he took his knife and opened their 

 bellies. When he opened them all he said: "Oh, I cannot find my 

 brother." He cried. Now only one small monster remained. He cut 

 its belly and found his brother who held the swan in his hand. Ha 

 carried him to the water and blew on him. Then he arose: "Oh, I told 

 you not to swim! [I thought] you would be swallowed!" 



They went on. They met a person who held his paddle in his hand 

 and danced. "What are you doing there?" "I catch flounders." 

 [The flounders jumped into his canoe while he was dancing.] "Come 

 here; have you no dipnef?" "I have one." "Bring it here! Step 

 near! Drive the flounders. Stand here! Put your dipnet into the 

 water!" He did so and held the net under water a very long time. 

 "Now lift it." It was neaiiy full. "Thus people shall always catch 

 flounders." 



Now they went on. They met a person who always made waa'waa't 

 "What are you doing?" "I shoot the rain." "Stay here!" Now 

 they took his house, threw it away, and made a good house for him.^ 

 They said: "Stay here; henceforth people will not shoot the rain." 



Then they went on. They found a country. There they bathed. 

 Then they rubbed their arms and made people [of the dirt that they 

 rubbed from their skin]. They blew upon them and they arose. 



Now they came to Quinaielt. " Here people shall catch blue-back 

 salmon." 



They went on and found a person. [He said:] "I will sharpen my 



knives. When these people come who make everything good I shall 



kill them with these knives." Now they met him. "What are you 



doing, old man? " they said. " I shall kill those who make everything 



^His house had no roof, and he protected himself by shooting at the rain. 



