208 THE PIMA INDIANS [eth. ann. L'6 



'riu'ii he sang: 



I have mado the moon! 



I have made the moon! 

 Hurling it high 



In the four directions. 

 To the east I threw it 



To run its appointed course. 



Earth Doctor saw that while the moon was yet above the horizon 

 there was suflicient light, but when it disappeared the darkness was 

 intense, so he took some of the water in liis mouth and blew it into 

 the sky in a spray, wliich formed the stars, but the night was still 

 dark. Then he took liis magic crystal and, after breaking it, threw 

 it also into the sky to form the larger stars, so the darkness was 

 less intense. Then he sang: 



I have made the stars! 



I have made the stars! 

 Above the eartli I threw them. 



All things above I've made 

 And placed them to illumine. 



Next he took his walking stick, and placing ashes on the end he 

 drew it across the sky to form the milky way. 



When the earth was thus prepared for habitation. Earth Doctor 

 created all manner of birds and creeping things. Next he formed 

 images of clay, which he commanded to become animate human 

 beings, and they obeyed him. For a time they increased and over- 

 spread the earth until it became so populous that food became scarce 

 antl there was not sufficient water to supply their needs. Of sick- 

 ness and death they knew nothing, and their numbers grew apace. 

 Hiuigering, they began to kill one another and to eat himian flesh. 

 Earth Doctor pitied them in their extremity, but could devise no 

 plan for relieving their distress, except to destroy all, and this he at 

 length felt forced to do. 



Earth Doctor said: "I sliall unite earth and sky: the earth shall 

 be as a female and the sky as a male, and from their imion shall be 

 born one who will be a helper to me. Let the sun be joined with 

 the moon, also even as man is wedded to woman, and their offspring 

 shall be a helper to me." Then he caught the hook of his staff into 

 the sky and pulled it down, crushing to ileath the people and all 

 other living things. Thrusting his stick through the earth. Earth 

 Doctor went through the hole and came out alone on the other side. 

 He called upon tlie sun and moon to come forth from the wreck 

 of world and sky, antl they obeyed him. But there was no sky for 

 them to travel through, no stars nor milky way, so he created all 

 these anew. Then he called for the offspring of earth and sky, but 

 there was no response. Then he created a race of men, as lie had 

 done before; these were the Rsasanatc. 



