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Uprooted An Bush. Near Kihatoak' h(> stopped again upon a 

 mountain to eat the heart, but he saw that it was covered with ashes, 

 so he shook it and the ashes fell and covered the mountain, so that it 

 is white to this day, and is called Gray mountain. Agaui the people 

 overtook Coyt>te, and he ran northward across the Gila, where he ate 

 the heart, and as he did so the grease fell upon every stone of the 

 mountain, which accounts for its appearance and the name it bears 

 to this day — Mo'liatiik, Greasy mountain. From that place Goyote 

 ran to live in the sea in the south. 



Now the tribes of men began to learn how they shoidd provide for 

 themselves, how they niiglit gather footl, hunt, and till the soil. 

 Mavit, Puma, and Rsu-u-d. Wolf, joined their fortunes and went 

 hunting together. One day Wolf said, ''I wonder where is our 

 brother, Goyote; suppose I call him." So he took the kidney of a deer 

 and roasted it and the wind carried the appetizing odor toward the 

 south. When Goyote smellcd it he said, "Surely, these are my broth- 

 ers, who wish me to return." So he ran to the place where Puma 

 and Wolf were living. When he reached them he was in great dis- 

 tress, for when he ate fooil it fell from him as wheat falls from the 

 broken sack. Finally, Puma and Wolf stitched his skin until it 

 retained the food he ate. Then they all went in search of wives. 

 Goyote found a woman and called to the others, who came to see her. 

 She became the wife of Puma, but Goyote said he would take her home. 

 On the way he fell and pretended to be in great pain. The woman 

 was frightened and knew not what to do. Coyote said, "I shall not 

 get well unless you strip o\\ my clothing and your own antl carry me 

 on your back for a few yards. That is the way my brothers treated 

 me when I was in this condition before." So she obeyed and made 

 their clothing into a l)undle, which she carried on her head, as is the 

 Pima custom. Goyotem humeris sustulit, sed cum paucos modo 

 passus ingressa esset, ''Siste! Siste!" exclamavit Goyote, "Doleo; 

 paulum me dimitte." Ubi c[uod poposcit fecerat, copulare potuit. 

 Mulierem turpiter tlum domum iebant Coyote egit. This was the 

 cau.se of much trouble, for she belonged to a tribe that had great magic 

 power. They tried to induce her to return, but she woukl not. P\u'- 

 t her more, Puma refused to restore her to her friends. Then the Rsar- 

 sdkatc A-atam," magicians, revenged thcMnselves by driving the deer, 

 the antelope, and every animal that is swift of foot and soft of fur and 

 useful to human kind into a cave in the Aloam or Yellow mountain, 

 which lies south of the jiresent Pimeria and northeast of Baboquivari. 

 This deprived the tribes of men of their chief support, and messengers 

 were sent to see if some means could not be foimd by which the impris- 

 oned animals could be liberated. One by one these agents failed to 



a The mirage that distorts tile early morning landscape in Pimeria is called rsarsOkatc, and it is 

 believed tiiat it is the spirits of the ancient magicians returned to earth . 



