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expand until it had grown so large that she could no longer see its 

 bounds. Then shrubs, red willow, grasses, and other vegetation 

 began to appear. 



In the fidlness of time she gave birth to a daughter. After attain- 

 ing womanhood this daughter was courted by various man-beings and 

 other beings disguised in the assumed shape of fine-looking young men. 

 But, by her mother's advice, she rejected the suit of all until a young 

 man of the race of the Great Turtle sought her to wife. He was 

 accepted and bidden to the lodge of her mother. At twilight he 

 came to the lodge bearing two, some say three, arrows, of which one 

 was tipped with a flint point. As the young woman- lay down he 

 passed two of the arrows, including the flint-tipped one, over her 

 body; others say that he placed them in the wall of the lodge just 

 above her body. He at once departed and said that he would return 

 the next day. At twilight he returned, and taking his arrows at 

 once withdrew, saying that he would not again return. 



In due time the young woman gave birth to twins, one of whom 

 caused her death by violently bursting through her armpit. The 

 name of the culprit twin was O'ha'a', and that of his brother, the 

 elder, was De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°'. Awe°'ha'i', the grandmother, 

 being greatly enraged by the death of her daughter, asked the twins 

 which of the twain had committed this act. O'ha'a' quickly replied 

 and accused his innocent brother. So, seizing the supposed culprit, 

 the grandmother cast him far away among the shrubbery. He did 

 not die there, but grew rapidly to manhood. His grandmother 

 hated him bitterly, but was very fond of O'ha'a'. In time De'hae"'- 

 hiyawa"kho°' was taught by his father how to buUd a lodge, to 

 kindle fire, and to plant and cultivate the ground, his father giving 

 him bean, melon, squash, tobacco, and corn seed. He gave his son 

 likewise the third arrow, it is said, by which he must destroy the Great 

 Water Serpent, the Fire Dragon of the White Body, when it should 

 begin to destroy the things he was to create and cause to grow. 

 De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' then toiled at his tasks, forming the various 

 kinds of animals and birds and making various varieties of useful 

 trees, shrubs, and plants. In all this work his grandmother and his 

 twin brother sought to thwart him by all manner of devices, but by 

 the timely counsel of his father he was able to defeat their efforts. 

 De'hae°'hiyawa"kho'" labored to prepare the earth for man, the 

 human being, whom later he was to create. For ease of transit for 

 man De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' had made the rivers and streams with 

 double currents, the one current running upstream and the other 

 running downstream; but his brother changed this well-intentioned 

 device by putting falls and cascades in the rivers and streams. The 

 grandmother, seeing that De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' had produced 

 great ears of perfect corn, immediately blighted them and said, 



