394 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



together; and the girl began to cry and said to her father that nobody 

 had come in, only her mother bringing in the food. Her father was so 

 angry that he put his daughter out of the house. So she went. It 

 was growing dark. She went around the viUage, ashamed to go into 

 a house because of her figure. She was passing a house where an old 

 woman was living alone. Then she asked the old woman if she could 

 stay with her. The old woman was pleased to take her for a chabe 

 (younger female relation) or maku (grandchild). Then she told all 

 about it to her grandmother (chi'i). While they were living there the 

 time came for her to have the baby. She had twins (kuyu), and the 

 old woman was very glad to have more grandchildren. She told the 

 girl that all she had would belong to them. 



So the little boys were growing up. They began to go out and 

 wanted to play with the children of the village. The children did not 

 like the little boys and would make them cry. One day, in the morn- 

 ing, the twins thought to go to a lake near the village to play. They 

 came in and asked their grandmother to let them go and play. Their 

 grandmother said, "No, grandchild, I won't let you go and play at 

 that lake; you might get drowned." But they decided to go, and 

 they hid from her. When they got to the lake, they threw stones into 

 it. Then a young boy (owa'de) came out of the lake, PawMesoan, 

 Lake boy. He said to the cliildren, "Why are you casting into the 

 lake. Don't you know people are living in the lake? You might hit 

 somebody." The boys said no; they did not know anybody was 

 living there. Lake boy asked the children who was their father? 

 They said that they had no father, only a grandmother. Lake boy 

 said yes; they had a father; the sun was their father. "You better 

 go; do not stay around the lake here. Stay in the house with your 

 grandmother." So they started back home. When they came in 

 their grandmother asked, "Where have you been, pikhorun, you rock 

 heather?" "Grandmother, we have been out to the lake throwing 

 stones, and a young man came out and asked us if we did not know 

 people were living there." The old woman began to scold them, too. 

 "Why did you go? No children go there, and you pihmg'en (big 

 heads) went there. Did I not tell you not to go, and yet you went. 

 Now you know what you do not need to know." " Yes, grandmother, 

 we know the sun is our father, and we want to see him." "Ea'wo', 

 you are not the sons of the sun, you big heads! You snotty nosed 

 (lereiungen; Mexican, mokosso) — who would want you for sons?" 

 The little boys paid no attention to their grandmother. They played 

 horseback (with sticks). Late in the evening the boys told their 

 grandmother and mother to prepare a lunch for them, they were 

 going to look for their father. "Ea'wo', grandson, you can not reach 

 him. You wdll die first. He is so far." The boys said they were 

 going anyhow. 



