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said, "Now, father of the bears, black bear, we shall give you a home 

 in the east. That will be your home and when we need you when 

 anyone wants to join (a society?) we shall call you and you will come. 

 You will always come when we call you." So they said, and he went 

 to the east. Then they sent the mountain Uon to the north and told 

 him to come whenever they called him. And they sent the wild cat 

 to the west. Then they called Atcialatapa and told him to look after 

 the heaven. They told each animal to look after one of the direc- 

 tions. "And now who will go underneath and look after the earth?" 

 Then they sent badger there. Then they called the stars and said, 

 "You will always come down to the altars because yoii are the seeds 

 of the heavens." So when the society people put up their altars 

 they always make a meal painting. This represents the sky and they 

 always use grains of white corn for the stars. So they told each one 

 what he was to do when he came into the society. 



Then they went out in all directions. The black bear went to the 

 east. He was reallj' a bear and walked around the trees eating pinon 

 nuts. It was at the winter solstice that they sent the animals out. 

 Then he went to sleep because the bears sleep in winter. In February, 

 while the winter dance series was going on, the black bear awoke. 

 The bear wakes up at the first thunderstorm of spring. So he woke 

 up and stretched liimself. He looked around. There were no clouds 

 and nothing growing and he was very lonely. Then he thought, "I 

 think it is spring. I do not have to go back again now." The other 

 animals had all gone back to Cipapohma, but this bear had been told 

 to watch the east. Then he thought, "I have heard there are katcinas 

 at katcina village, and if anyone wants to he can go there and join 

 them and go with them whenever they go to dance at Itiwana. I 

 have feathers, too, so I can go there. I think I shall go there." 



So he went. He went around to the south so as to meet his brother, 

 the wliite bear. He came to the south and there was the white bear. 

 He was still asleep. So he thought he would wake him up. But then 

 he thought, "Maybe if I wake j^ou up j^ou will be angry. I suppose 

 you did not hear the nimble of the thunder. "When you wake up you 

 will come to the Sacred Lake. So he left him and went on to katcina 

 village. "When he reached there he went in. He went in, a big black 

 bear with big feet, and he sniffed at all of them. He smelled of the 

 little Heli'ea and the others. The katcinas were all dancing and sing- 

 ing different lands of songs. Then he went to the valuable place, 

 where fautiwa and Sayataca and all the valuable people stayed. 

 Then Pautiwa said, " Now, my children, be quiet for a moment. Our 

 father has come here. I want to hear why he has come." So they 

 stopped dancing and everj'one took his place. Then he asked, "Why 

 have you come? I know you have come for something, for you have 

 never come here before." "Well," he said, "I have come to jom in 



