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antelope started, before the antelope. But the war captain got there 

 after the antelope. The horse jumped over the antelope and threw 

 his rider. When the others reached him he was dead and turned 

 into a rock. They took the rock to the house of the Town Fathers to 

 see if they could biing him back to hfe. They looked through the 

 crystal and saw that though his body (mu'ide) was there, his soul 

 (wau'de™) was gone. The medicine men have kept the rock in their 

 house, in a secret place. They feed it when they conduct a ceremonj-. 

 With another rock they marked the spot where the war captain fell. 

 To this rock, which is but a few inches above ground, hunters take 

 ofi'erings — turquoise and red beads, pollen, meal, sometimes crumbs, 

 "to feed him," and sometimes prayer feathers prepared by the hunt 

 chief, all of which are buried — to get power from the deceased war 

 captain to kill a deer. 



7. The Cacique who Turned His Son to Stone 



Narrator: Yuanan, in olden time it happened. Listeners: Ha! 



The cacique had only one son. His "wife died ; he and his son were 

 living by themselves. He was very careful of his son, he never let 

 him go by himself, always somebody wdth him. One day he went to 

 Salt Lake with another boy. The two boys were going together 

 around the edge. They said, "How pretty it looks, the lake!" 

 They climbed up a little hill and they sat there a httle while. They 

 were both naked. As they sat there they happened to turn to the 

 east side, and they saw a lung (reide) and a queen (reinada) come 

 out from a hill. " Look at those nice people there ! Who are they?" 

 So they said, "We will wait here. If they are nice people, they will 

 come and see what we are doing." They came and said, "Hi'numi- 

 mim Idma." ^^ They turned and said, "Who are you?" The man 

 said, "We are the kuig and cpieen, and this is my wife." The cacicjue's 

 son shook hands with the queen. She left polonsiu (honey) in his 

 right hand. Then she shook hands with the other boy, but to him 

 she gave no honey. While she was disengaging her hand, softly she 

 said to him, "You eat that." Then the two boys went home. The 

 cacique's boy told nothing to his father nor to the other boy. So the 

 next time he went by himself. He saw the queen coming, she said, 

 "You are here again?" "Yes." "Did you eat what I gave you?" 

 "Yes." "Was it good?" "Yes, it was good." Then she said to 

 him, "WeU, that means that you will be my lover (hasore, stolen 

 husband)." He said, "All right. I shall come and meet you here 

 always." He never told his father what he was doing; but every day 



'0 Distinguish from wai'ide, the term for antelope, deer, etc. (See pp. 302, 377.) 



""What way getting dark," plural; hinu kakim, singular. The response is: Kijwekem, "I am all 

 right." The morning wayside greeting is: Hinu kaupuyu, " What way morning to you." 



