RUSSELL] MYTHS 207 



Earth Magirian shapes this -n-drld; 



Earth Magician makes its mountains; . 

 Makes all larger, larger, larger. 



Into the earth the magician glance.-:; 

 Into its motmtains he may see. 



Next Earth Doctor (•reat(Ml some black in.sects, tcotclk tat&ny, 

 which made black gum on the creosote bush. Then he made hia- 

 pitc, the termite," which worked upon and increased the small begin- 

 ning until it grew to the proportions of our present earth. As he 

 sang and danced the wonderful world developed, and then he made 

 a sky to cover it, that was shaped like the round house of the Pimas. 

 But the earth shook and stretched so that it was unfit for ha])ita- 

 tion. So Earth Doctor maile a gray s{)ider, which he commaniled to 

 spin a web around the unconnected edges of earth and sky. When 

 this was done the earth grew firm and solid. 



All that we now see upon the land — water, mountains, trees, grass, 

 and weeds — was made, and then he maile a dish, poured w^ater into 

 it, and the water became ice. Taking this block of ice he threw it 

 toward tiie north, where it fell at the place where earth and sky 

 forever meet. At once the ice shone forth as the brilliant disk we 

 now know as the sun. For a certain <listance the sun rose into the 

 sky and then fell back again. Earth Doctor took it and threw it 

 toward the west, where earth and sky are sewn together, and again 

 it rose and slid back into the ground. And in the south it behaved 

 in a similar manner, but when he threw it to the east it rose higher 

 and higher, until it reached the zenith, and then went on to sink in 

 the west, and thus it has ccmtinued to do until this day. As the 

 evening glow grew dim the darkness fell in inky blackness. So 

 Earth Doctor poured more water into the disliand it became ice, and 

 he sang: 



I have made the sun! 



I have made the sun! 

 Hurling it high 



In the four directions. 

 To the east I threw it 



To nm its appointed course. 



Then to the north he threw the ice imtilit dropped at the edge where 

 the earth and sky are woven together. It became the shining circle 

 which we call the moon. The moon rose in the sky, but soon fell 

 back as the sun had done, so he threw it to the west, and then to 

 the south, and finally to the east before it rose and pursued its course 

 across the sky as it does to the present time. 



" Termes flavipes Koll. It was formerly believed that if anyone ate food prepared from grain that 

 was contained In anything upon which this insect lived that person's teeth would fall out. 



