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into mountain ridges and deep canyons. So he put up his hand and pushed the 
sky away to its present position. There are five stars where his fingers touched 
the sky. They are called the hand of God. Then he went about making green 
things grow, shaping what came forth after subsequent whirlwinds into living 
things and men and women, teaching these how to build houses, and making the 
earth fit for them to live upon. So his Pima name is Harth Doctor (Che-o- 
tma’-ka).@ 
The Brother, ceasing to be a spider, followed and imitated Earth Doctor. 
Using common clay, he bungled so that misshapen animals were all that he 
could make. 3 
The man he formed had the palm of his hand extending out to the end of his 
fingers. Earth Doctor rebuked him, so he threw it down hard against the sur- 
face of the water and it swam off in the form of a duck, with a web foot and a 
very flat breast. 
Others were so bad he threw them up against the sky, and they remain there. 
One of these is Gopher (Pleiades) ; one is Mountain Sheep (Orion), farther 
east, and one is the Scorpion of five stars,’ three in the body and one for each 
claw, whose place is west of the Gopher. These go in the sun’s path. When 
the Gopher and the Mountain Sheep are east, the Scorpion is west; but when 
the Gopher and Mountain Sheep are in the west, the Hand is east. Now 
all the things that were made then were of the first generation. The first flood 
‘ame because the Brother made so much trouble and claimed to have more 
power than Barth Doctor, who at length drove him off the earth. 
Changing again to a spider, he took refuge in the sky, across which he spun the 
web of the milky way. Earth Doctor took water into his mouth and spurted it 
upward at the Spider, but it fell in a spray and remained on the web making a 
river of the milky way. He took dust in a pouch, and, jerking it, tried to make 
it go into Spider’s eyes. The dust made a road and banks along the river, but 
some fell in Spider’s eyes. Observing that water did not injure him, even when 
Earth Doctor took handfuls and sprinkled the sky with stars of snow and ice, 
and also that earth, even in the form of dust, did injure him, Spider tried his 
own power over the water, calling upon it to rise up and wash away the earth. 
The waters rose, washing away all except the mountains and the representa- 
tive races and animals that took refuge there. A truce was called; it was 
agreed that Harth Doctor should have power over the earth, the Brother over 
water. The sun’s reflection in water was dipped up with the hand and cast 
toward the sky, and the flood subsided.¢ 
From the mountains that stood, a stronger earth was built. The broken web 
was mended with strong ropes made of yucca fibers. Eagle feathers were set 
up around the border. Remnants of the first generation were gathered up, 
and the second generation began. 
In the meantime the Sun, who is a male, had observed what was done by 
the Sky upon the maiden world of turbid water and visited the Moon in like 
manner. The Moon’s twins were Coyote and his companion the Fox. 
When the road and river were complete across the sky along the milky way, 
Coyote and his companion came down upon the earth. Whatever Harth Doctor 
did the Coyote imitated, bungling his work as the Brother had done, until at 
length there was strife again. 
«He is known in Maricopa as Kokmat, which may mean mud or middle earth. 
°’As this constellation rises in the east about August, the three stars of the body are 
nearly horizontal. The two claws point toward the south, upward and downward. 
¢ When a rain doctor wants the rain to cease he still does the same. It is obvious that 
there must first be a rift in the clouds to get the sun’s reflection. 
