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return from the place whence I started (my home). Until I will 

 complete my preparations there just then I will go to visit the lodge 

 of you two. I will tell thee then that I sliall not settle down there 

 where the lodge of you two stands, you, mother and daughter. I 

 will only go there and return when I go there." Then at that time 

 the maiden returned from that place. When she returned the Elder 

 Woman said, " Wliat thing has come to pass that he does not accom- 

 pany thee?" Then the maiden said, "He returned home. There, 

 it is said, he will first pay a visit to the place whence he started. As 

 soon as, it is said, he will complete his preparations, then he will 

 come hither. Not, it is said, he will settle down here. Just, it is 

 said, he will only pay a visit here." 



Then the Elder Woman said, "That verily I have kept saying, 

 it is well known that he is immune (invulnerable)."'^ At that time 

 then verily they two awaited the time when he should come. Just 

 then when it was growing dark then they two went to lie down to 

 sleep. Just after they had lain down then he came in and he said, 

 "Here, now, behold, I have arrived. Then I will tell thee what shall 

 come to pass. That I will leave here mj' arrows to lie here during the 

 night. Tomorrow, early in the morning, I shall come for them." 

 Then at that time she saw that he held two arrows, one having a 

 flint point and the other having no attached point. Then at that 

 time he repeatedly straightened the arrow which had no attached 

 point. Then at that time there as she lay he laid them on her body, 

 he laid the two arrows side by side. Then at that tune he said, 

 "Thus let them be during the night. Do thou not undo them until 

 I come again and I myself will undo them." Then at that time he 

 left the lodge and then returned home. 



Then when tomorrow came, early in the morning then he returned 

 and then removed the two arrows and then returned home. Then 

 at that time the maiden was verily happy. After the lapse of a 

 certain time she became aware that now her life was different. Now 

 the Elder Woman said, "We two have good fortune. For that 

 verily thou wilt have a child in tlie near future." 



The time was not long when it was very evident from her appear- 

 ance that she was about to be a mother. Then she was 'surprised 

 that she heard two male persons conversing within her body. One 

 kept saying, "What things wilt thou do when thou goest about here 

 in the place where thou and I shall be born?" Then this other 

 person said, "I will cause human beings to dwell as peoples; game 

 animals also, they also I will cause to dwell as groups of beings, and 

 I will create that by which human beings shall live and that by which 

 game animals shall live here on this earth, and as many things as 



See note on p. 609. 



