212 THE PIMA INDIANS Ieth. ann. 26 



latter conducted the people to the top of (lie Crooked mountain, 

 and as they went away Earth Doctor sang: 



Haiya! Haiya! Flood! Flood! Hai-iya! 



See the doom awaiting them! 

 Haiya! Haiya! Flood! Flood! Ilai-iya! 



Here are my iloomcd people before me. 



As tlie flood rose toward the to]i of the mountain, South Doctor 

 sang a song vvliicii caused the mountain itself to rise higher and 

 ever higher alxtve the waters which raced toward them as if on the 

 level plain. These are the words that lifted the mountain upward: 



On the Crooked mmmtain I am .■standing, 



Trying to disperse the waters. 

 On the Crooked mountain I am standing, 



Trying to disperse the waters. 



Wlien he ceased singing he traced a line around the mountain and 

 this marked the limit of the flood for a time, but it soon rose again 

 and tlireatened to overflow the summit. Again South Doctor sang: 



On the Crooked mountain top I'm standing. 



Trying to disperse the waters. 

 On the Crooked mountain top Fm standing. 



Trying to disperse the waters. 



Four times he sang and raised the mountain above the rising waters 

 and then declared that he could do so no more, for liis power was 

 exhausted. Tie could do but one more tiling for them, and holding 

 his magic crystal in his left hand he sang: 



Powerless! Powerless! 



Powerless is my magie rrystal! 

 Powerless! Powerless! 



I shall become as stone. 



Then he smote with his right hand and the thunder peal rang in all 

 directions. He threw his staff into the water and it cracked with a 

 loud noise. Turning, he saw a dog near him, and this animal he 

 sent to see how high the tide had risen. The dog turned toward the 

 people and said, "It is very near the top." When the anxious 

 watchers heard the voice they, were transfixed in stone; and there 

 to this day we see them as they were gathered in groups, some of the 

 men talking, some of the women cooking, and some crying." 



a Pedro Font has given the following version of this myth in his Diary, pages 2,3 to 24a of original 

 manuscript: " He further said that after the old man, there came to that land a man called El Bebedor 

 (the Drinker), who became incensed with the people dwelling there and sent so much wjiter that it 

 covered all the land. lie then set out for a mountain ridge, which may be seen from that place, called 

 the Ridge of Foam, whither he brought with him a little dog and a coyote. This ridge is called the 

 Ridge of Foam. l>ecause at its summit, which ends gradually and. accessible after the fashion of the edge 

 of a bastion, may be descried near the very top a white crest like a clilT. which follows horizontally 

 along the ridge for a good space. The Indians say that this is a mark of the foam of the waters which 

 re-ichefi that height. The Bebedor remained above and left the dog below, so that he might warn him 

 wlien the waters reached that height. When the waters rose to the crest of foam, the beast warned 

 the Bebedor (for in those days animats could speak} and the latter raised him up from below. A few 



