EDSSBLL] MYTHS 223 



Kovakova, kovakova, 



Kovakova, kovakova. 

 Singing on the summit 



Of great Mo'hatuk mountain, 

 Anayokuna. anayokuna. hayokuna. 

 Sacred pipe of Tru-unarsat, 



Sleep-inducing sacred pipe, 

 Anayokuna, anayokuna, liayokun;u 



Ha-ak flees from her pursutTs, 

 But her spring and mortar stay. 



Throw a great stone! 

 Throw a great stone! " 



The blue owl is brightest. 

 Throw a great stone! 



The blue owl is brightest, 

 Throw a great stone. 



When he killed Ha-ak a great feast was made, just as when Eagle 

 was killed, and to this day the cave remains there where Hti-ak was 

 killed, and 2 or 3 miles distant is a stone inclosure, Ha-ak moakkdt, 

 Place where Ha-ak was killed. The people formerly placed offer- 

 ings within the inclosure to hrmg them good luck. 



Another version of the same story states that Vaktcuktclthap, the 

 mosquito hawk, wished to marry the virgin at Casa Blanca, who had 

 many suitors. He went to the Sun, who gave him a many-colored 

 ball, wluch he took to the woman Pia Konikam Of'(i). When near 

 her he kicked it as the Pimas do the kicking ball, so that it rolled 

 near her. , She placed it in the fold of her blanket and became 

 pregnant. 



After Ha-ak was killed the people were invited to come and partake 

 of the feast which had been cooked there. One old woman and her 

 two grandsons were not in\'ited to come. When the feast was over 

 she told her grandsons to go and see if they could find any of Ha-ak's 

 blood, and if so to bring it to her. After the boys had brought the few 

 drops of blood which they found among the rocks she put it into a 

 dish and told them to look at it after four days. Wlien they did so 

 they found two eggs in the dish. On reporting this to their grand- 

 mother she told them to look again after four more days. When they 

 looked they saw two little birds, at which their grandmother told them 

 to look again at the end of four days. When they came to look they 

 found two very beautifid birds. After four days the people came and 

 tried to destroy the grandmother and the boys in order to get the 

 birds. The old woman told her grandsons that after another four 

 days the people would come and take their birds away. So they must 

 take them at night to a distant land and set them free there. She said 

 that when the\' returned they would fuid her dead, as the people 

 would have killed her. 



a The stone referred to is the one thrown against the cave walls by H&-&k when she was entrapped. 

 In proof of the story we iimy see the stone there to the present day. 



