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came to where the corn priest stayed. "How have you Hved these 

 daj's?"' "As we are Uving: happily you have passed us on our road. 

 Sit down." They sat down. There they questioned one another. 

 "Well, speak. I think some word that is not too long, your word 

 will be. Now, if you let me know that, remembering it, I shall always 

 live." "Indeed, it is so. To-morrow, when we arise, we shall set 

 out to seek Itiwana. Nowhere have we found the middle. Oiir chil- 

 dren, our women, are tired. They are crying. Therefore we have 

 come to you. To-morrow your two children will look ahead. Per- 

 haps if they find the middle when our fathers, our mothers, Ka-eto'we, 

 tcu-eto'we, mu-etcwe, le-eto'we, all the society priests, come to rest, 

 there our children will i-est themselves. Because we have failed to 

 find the middle." "Haiyi! Is that so? With plain words you have 

 passed us on our road. Very well, then, thus it shall be." Thus he 

 said. The two went. 



Next morning when they were about to set out they put down a 

 split ear of corn and eggs. They made the corn priest stand up. 

 They said, "Now, my children, some of you wiU go yonder to the 

 south. You will take these." Thus he said (indicating) the tip of 

 the ear and the macaw egg. And then the ones that were to come 

 this way took the base of the ear and the raven egg. Those that were 

 to go to the south took the tip of the ear and the macaw egg. "Now, 

 my children, yonder to the south you wiU go. If at any time you 

 come to Itiwana, then some time we shall meet one another." Thus 

 they said. They came hither. 



They came to the place that was to be Katcina village. The girl 

 got tired. Her brother said, "Wait, sit do\vn for a while. Let me 

 climb up and look about to see what land of a place we are going to." 

 Thus he said. His sister sat down. Her brother clmibed the hill. 

 When he had climbed up, he stood looking this way. "Eha! Maybe 

 the place where we are going lies m this direction. Maybe it is this 

 kind of a place." Thus he said and came dowTi. Meanwhile his 

 sister had scooped out the sand. She rested against the side of the 

 hill. As she lay sleeping the uind came and raised her apron of grass. 

 It blew up and she lay with her vulva exposed. As he came down 

 he saw her. He desired her. He lay down upon his sister and 

 copulated with her. His sister awoke. "Oh, dear, oh, dear," she 

 was about to say (but she said,) "Watsela, watsela." Her brother 

 said, "Ah!" He sat up. With his foot he drew a line. It became 

 a stream of water. The two went about talldng. The brother talked 

 Uke Koyemci. His sister talked like Komakatsik. The people came. 



"Oh alas, alas! Our children have become different beings." 

 Thus they said. The brother speaking: "Now it vnll be all right for 

 you to cross here." Thus he said. They came and went in. They 

 entered the river. Some of their children turned into water snakes. 



