10G2 zuNi levrciXAs [kth. vxn. 47 



After they g:ot home they sat down in the room and cried. They 

 were dirty and iijrly. They were not pretty any more beeaiise Butter- 

 fly girl had done this to them. They were sitting there worryinj.-, about 

 it when Mahetinaca oame. Then he wanted to marry these girls, but 

 they did not want him. They had been married to the handsome Ka- 

 kima youth and they were imhappy. Then he danced for them. He 

 stayed there a little while to see if they would cheer up. Then he 

 asked them, "Why are you sad? \Vliat are you worrying about? 

 1 know you are worrying about something." They would not tell 

 him what worried them. He tried to play with the girls. He showed 

 them his dance, and he swung his bull roarer for them. Then the 

 youngest one said, "Let me do it." They thought they would give 

 him what the butterfly girl had given them. They thought if they 

 played Mith him and touched him he would get dirty and ugly and 

 then they would get rid of the dirt and ashes and give them to him, 

 and then they would be pretty again. They did not want to marry 

 him because lie had a funny mouth and they had been married to the 

 handsome Kiikima boy. Then they went over to him and touched 

 his clothing and asked limi about everything he had on. They came 

 close to him and put their hands all over him. He tried to play with 

 them, but they did not want him. Finally, when he was ready to go 

 they said to him, "Come again." He said, "No, 1 will never come 

 again. You do not Hke me." Then they said, "All right. Now we 

 will do this to you." And they shook their wings and he got dirty and 

 black. Then he looked and saw he was dirtj' and said, " ! lummmmm." 

 Then they said to him, "Now that is the way you will always be. 

 You will be dirty and ugly and you will look sharply at jieople and say 

 'hunmmuum. '" And that is the way he is. WTien this Mahetinaca 

 was turned into an ugly dirty pereon all his people became that kind 

 too. And that is why their noses are black and shiny, and that is why 

 they always go after the people when they go outside and look sharply 

 at them and say "Ilummnmun." 



That is all, and that is why we do not Hke Mahetinaca. Just the 

 way the bat girls gave the dirty things to the butterflies, so they made 

 Mahetinaca ugly so that all the i)eople dislike him. Even though 

 Mahetinaca are katcinas no one likes to see them, and none of the 

 young men will dance Mahetinaca. They make nasty songs about the 

 ])eople here. They say they are shiging about people in the sacred 

 lake but everyone knows that it is about the Itiwana people. And so 

 no one likes to see them. Not all the people know the story, but they 

 all know there is something wrong with Mahetinaca. 



