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power." The sun said "All right. I give you the power because 

 there are many ckoyos (giants) who carry peoples away with their 

 baskets and eat them." The boys said that they wanted to kill 

 those ckoyos. The sun said they could Idll them wdth their flints. 

 "And I am going to give you advice. You stand this far from the 

 ckoyo and tell him to look back. When he look back you can throw 

 this fhnt and cut his head off." "Now we better go back (the boys 

 said) and do what we want to the ckoyos. Because there is one 

 place where a ckoyo has got lots prisoners. He got them full in 

 all liis rooms." 



They start back to their mother. When they got back they told 

 their mother what they going to do. "We want to kill all these 

 ckoyos now. When we are ready we are going out to kill them." 

 Their mother said, "No; better not go out 'cause surely they going 

 to get you fellers and eat you up." They told her, "No; they 

 wouldn't eat us up. We're going to cut their heads off." "How 

 you going to kill those ckoyos? You haven't got the power to kill 

 them." "Yes; Father Sun gave us the power and told us to kill 

 them." "How, and with what, are you going to kill those ckoyos?" 

 "Well, we got bows and arrows, and here is the flint that we going 

 to use to loll those ckoyos." "No; dear children, I don't think you 

 can do it. They going to grab you before you can run away. They 

 got long hands and long-legged, too." "Well, mother, we know 

 how to kill them. We can hide. They can never find us where we 

 hide." "The ckoyo will see you very far oft". They will see where 

 you Mde and get you right there," she told them. "Never mind, 

 mother, you wiU see how we going to do it, to get them." "No, my 

 dear cliildren, I wish you would mind me." But the boys say, 

 "Now we want to go where the ckoyo, his home is." 



When they start out they laughing, dancing. "Oh, we going have 

 lots of fun with that grandmother ckoyo (stcra basa). (The inform- 

 ant always used the word ckoyo, never translating it. He formed 

 the i)lural easilj^ by adding 's.') Let's go out here where she can 

 see us." Then they went out to the northwest from their home 

 south of Acoma. They look for a place where ckoyo can see them. 

 They stopped on a sandy place and played like children so the ckoyo 

 could see them. Pretty soon a ckoyo saw them; Masewi knew it. 

 "Let her come here; we going to get her to-day." Oyoyewi was a 

 httle afraid. 



Ckoyo Uved at Cakaiya (a large mesa near Acoma) on top. Ckoyo 

 saw them; look down. She knew it was Masewi and Oyoyewi. "I 

 am going to get those children. 1 am going to eat them up." She 

 takes only four steps and gets where Masewi and Oyoye\vi were. 

 When she get there they pretended they didn't see her. "Let's 

 holler and play and she'll feel funnj'," Masewi said. Oyoyewi said, 



