DEHiTTl MYTH OF THE EARTH-GRASPER 533 



Now at that time Sapling began to do the things which he had 

 assigned to him as a duty. Now too De'hae'"hi% awa"kho°' started 

 and went there to the place where the floating island of O'ha'ii' stood 

 out of the water. 



When De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' arrived there he then traveled about. 

 Just as ciuickly as he found a horn he placed it up high; also did he 

 place up high all the flints which he saw. 



Now at that time he went to the side of the lodge and there he 

 found exceedingly many, which covered the space around the lodge. 

 He then picked up all and placed them severally up high, and also 

 the flint rocks. Wlien he completed the task then he looked about in 

 different places, and verdj- he saw there a tree standing hard b}-, 

 and there to the top of the tree the Head'^ was fastened. Then he 

 understood that it was not difficult for some one to be able to climb 

 the standing tree, and he saw there beside the tree O'hil'a' in ambush. 



Now at that time he turned himself around and he went toward a 

 mountain standing in the distance, and so there he met a Man Being 

 and that one said, "Whence dost thou come?" Then De'hae"'- 

 hiyawa"kho°' said, in speaking, "Yonder there floats an island; I 

 come from there* verily I am going about examining what is taking 

 place on the earth." Not long after then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho'" 

 again spoke and said another thing, "Now verdy thou hast asked 

 me, so now in my turn I ask thee whence then didst thou thyself 

 come?" Now at that time the Man Being said, "I come from the 

 direction of the Sun's setting, and I too am going about examining 

 the earth present here. It is known that I myself possess it; I myself 

 completed all." '' 



Now at that time De'hae"'hiyawa"kho'" said, "What then art 

 thou called?" The Man Being replied, "Hadu"i',I myself am called." 

 Now at that time the Man Being said, "What manner of thing then 

 art thou thyself called?" De'hae"'hiyawa"kho°' replied and said, 

 "Verily, I myself am called De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°'. I completed 

 the bodies of human beings who live on the earth. So now I wish 

 dearly to see how much power thou thyself hast, in that thou dost 

 continue to say, 'I myself have completed the earth present here.' " 



Now at that time Hadu"i' held a rattle which was made of the 

 shell of the great turtle, and now he shook his rattle to cause it to 

 give sounds; it made a loud sound. It was evident that all the various 

 kinds of animals which were traveling about were frightened. 



Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "I realh' believe, 

 seemingly, that I am not satisfied with it. That perhaps woulil 

 satisfy my mind to see that thou could'st cause the mountain standing 

 j'onder in the distance to come hither, just to move itself hither." 



See note on p. 610. 



