398 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann.47 



ka'a!" "Akuwani imiiwe, my sons!"' They told him how they 

 were born, and the sim did not like it. "I have no sons in the world 

 like you, with a big head and snotty nose." The sun was mad. He 

 said to the old man, "Build a big fire in the oven and put them in. 

 If they come out alive they are my sons; if they burn they are not 

 my sons." These boys were powerful, and they slept well that night 

 in the oven. So the next morning they came out hollering and laugh- 

 ing, and the sun said, "Yes, my boys, you are my sons." Then the 

 sun asked the younger boy, "How do you use those bows and arrows? '' 

 The boy drew the bow and shot his father in the heart and killed him. 

 The older one opened his chest with his knife. He had a rock for a 

 heart. The boy took out the rock and put in the egg they got, which 

 was his right heart. The younger boy went and sewed up his father.** 

 After a while the father woke up and said, "My sons, I fainted." So 

 the boys said, "Well, we will take care of you." That is why some- 

 times the sun has two sims, one on each side. This means it is going 

 to be a good year — the sun has recognized his sons. 



14. Test for Paternity; Variant (Lake Boy; the Twins Seek 

 THEIR Father Sun; Sun Tests in Oven) 



There was an old woman living by herself. She had a daughter. 

 Their father was dead. Everybody hated them. The girl had noth- 

 ing else to do but grind and make blue bread. That way they were 

 living. At last the girl appeared to be pregnant. They wondered 

 how she was like that when she did not go outdoors or anywhere. 

 They thought the wilawe would call a meeting at the house of the 

 t'aikabede and find out how the girl had got that way. At the council 

 they brought the girl and her mother to question them. At the coun- 

 cil they could leaiTi nothing because the girl never went anywhere. 

 She did not know how she had become pregnant. The t'aikabede 

 decided to let her go untU the child was bom. While she was waiting 

 for the birth, they were never out of corn or wheat or deer meat. 

 When the child was bom, 12 days later, they made another council. 

 Two boys were born. Wlien they had the meetmg again, they asked 

 who had put her in that trouble. She said she had never been with 

 anyone in this world. They told her if she really did not Icnow she 

 must get ready and take the children to the spring pawiha.*' After 

 they told her that, t'aikabede told her, "I will prepare and on the 

 fourth day in the morning you go and throw the children into the 

 spring." On this fourth day the t'aikabede and the 12 wilawe had 

 to have moccasins ready for the children. On the fourth day in the 

 morning they took the little moccasins to the woman, telling her that 



^^ Compare Parsons 17: 86. 



»• Informant stated that the blue lake at Taos was referred to. But I inchno to think from the song given 

 on-p. 400 that a lake or spring in the sacred mountain of Isleta is being referred to. 



