156 THE ACOMA INDIANS [eth. ann.47 



The k'atsina went back to Weninia. (Wenima, or Wenimats', is a 

 place "out west"; it is always referred to as "the home of the 

 k'atsina.") The gomaiowic and the Antelope man went back to 

 Shipap (the place of emergence, located "in the north"). They told 

 the people it was gomg to rain four days and four nights. After, on 

 the fifth and sixth day, they could plant anytliing they want. 



Next day the clouds came from Wenima and it rained like every- 

 thing. The people had a meeting at Shipap. They made the Ante- 

 lope man, the headman, to call out the k'atsina. No one else could. 

 The people, everybody, made prayer sticks. After the rain, in the 

 morning, Kimac" came to the Antelope man's house and said, "Well, 

 we finished now. You can tell your people to plant to-morrow. It 

 will be all right." "All right." 



The people came in with prayer sticks to give to I\imac°. Kimac" 

 told the people that the Antelope man was their headman because he 

 was the one who had brought them back. He would be cacique." 



The k'atsina went back to Wenima. 



Da Hama tcui naut". 



Masewi and Oyoyewi Kill a Giantess 



They were living right near Acoma, with their mother. (The sun 

 was their father. They used to live at HaKaaitc — place where sim 

 rises — but he sent them away to Uve near Acoma. They grew big 

 enough in four days.) They were pretty brave boys and smai't boys 

 too. After four days they went out hunting rabbits and deer. 

 They brought in rabbits and anything they could get. Next day, 

 went out again. They got an antelope and some other animals 

 too. Next day they got a deer. Next day, got a bear. 



Then they wanted to go to the east to the sim. The cacique (of 

 Acoma, presumably) wanted to know where they came from. From 

 the sun they told him. "How you come?" They told him the 

 sun sent them. Then he believed them. Then they told their 

 mother they wanted to go back to the sun, their father, to see him. 

 The mother said, "How you can go? There is all kinds of dangers." 

 But they said, "But we can go. We can manage those tilings, 

 those dangers. Our father will take care of us, and we got arrows 

 and bows to protect with. And we got hictian tcaipitcan (this is a 

 ]iiece of flint shaped somewhat like a boomerang. When it is thrown 

 it looks 'like lightning')." They get to the sun. "Now we got 

 back here Naicnia Ocatc (Father Sun) to see you. Doco domako 

 skaaitsa (now we are grown big). We come to get you to help us 

 to get more strength and to be brave in this world and to have more 



'•'* The cacique at Acoma is always an Antelope man (member of the Antelope clan, the kuuts' hanotc). 

 lie is spoken of as the "father of the k'atsina." 



