BCNZEL] ZUNI ORIGIN MYTHS 597 



it." Thus he said. "Indeed it is so. To-morrow we shall arise. 

 Therefore we have come to speak to you." "WeU indeed? May you 

 go happilj". You will tell our parents, 'Do not worry.' We have not 

 perished. In order to remain thus forever we stay here. To Itiwana 

 but one day's travel remains. Therefore we stay near by. When our 

 world grows old and the waters are exhausted and the seeds are 

 exhausted, none of you will go back to the place of your first beginning. 

 Whenever the waters are exhausted and the seeds are exhausted you 

 will send us prayer sticks. Yonder at the place of our first beginning 

 with them we shall bend over to speak to them. Thus there will not 

 fail to be waters. Therefore we shall stay quietly near by." Thus 

 they said to them. "Well indeed?" "Yes. You will tell my father, 

 my mother, 'Do not worry.' We have not perished." Thus they 

 said. They sent strong words to their parents. " Now we are going. 

 Our children, may you always Uve happily." "Even thus may you 

 also go." Thus they said to the two. They went out. They arrived. 

 They told them. " Now our children, here your children have stopped. 

 'They have perished,' you have said. But no. The male children 

 have become j'ouths, and the females have become maidens. They 

 are happy. They five joyously. They have sent you strong words. 

 'Do not worry,' they said." "Haiyi! Perhaps it is so." 



They stayed oveiTught. Next morning they arose. Gathering 

 together all their sacred possessions, they came hither. They came 

 to HanHpiijka. Meanwhile the two Ne'weivwc looked ahead. They 

 came to Rock-in-the-river. There two girls were washing a woolen 

 dress. They killed them. After they had Idlled them they scalped 

 them. Then someone found them out. \Mien they were found out, 

 because they were raw people, they wrapped themselves in mist. 

 There to where ka-eto"we were staying they came. "Alack, alas! 

 We have done wrong!" Thus they said. Then they set the days 

 for the enemy. There they watched one another's days for rain, 

 ka-etonve's four days and four nights passed with the falling of 

 heavy rain. There where a waterfall issued from a cave the foam 

 arose. There the two Ahaiyute appeared. They came to where 

 Ea-eto-we were staying. Meanwhile, from the fourth innerworld, 

 Unasinte,'" Uhepololo,' KaUuhtsawaki, Hattuijka, Oloma, Catunka, 

 came out to sit down in the daylight. There they gave them the 

 coniatowe song cycle.^ Meanwhile, right there, Coyote was going 

 about hunting. He gave them their pottery drum. They sang 

 coniatowe. 



After this had happened, the two said, "Now, my younger brother, 

 Itiwana is less than one day distant. We shall gather together our 



" Whirlwind; 

 ' "Wool rolled up." 



•"Spiral," a song sequence and dance occurring as the last rite of the scalp dance. Comatowe is also sung 

 at the winter solstice. 



