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The Brother met Coyote and called him brother, but Coyote would not reply. 
So a flood was sent to destroy Coyote and the earth and all its inhabitants. 
Small numbers were saved by clinging to trunks of trees that floated on the 
water. Coyote insisted the Brother should address him as Elder Brother. This 
was conceded. Coyote made a ball of mud from the root of the tree on which he 
floated. He stuck in a bunch of grass from the bill of the duck the Brother had 
made. This he cast upon the water to be the nucleus of a new world, and the 
flood subsided. 
Then Barth Doctor proceeded to construct the third generation. Coyote 
helped, or rather hindered. His companion, Fox, made trouble by pranks of 
his own. 
Men increased rapidly. They had no diseases. There were no wars. The 
few deaths were from snake bites or accidents. The earth was crowded. 
There was not food for all. 
Some killed little children for food. One especially had from girlhood a yora- 
cious appetite; as a woman she went from village to village, prowling about 
houses and carrying off children for food. She had eaten the flesh of all 
animals and the children of all tribes. A council was held in the skies. The 
seats of those who were there are in a circle.¢ They agreed to have the great 
flood, so there would not be too many people. 
The cannibal woman was bound and carried away. She was burned alive; 
all kinds of wood were used for fuel, and the flames were fed seven years. 
The ashes were then collected, mixed with meal made of all kinds of seeds, and 
the whole was put into an earthen jar for the seed of the fourth generation. 
The flood that followed continued for four years. The Brother, as Spider, 
sat on the northern end of the milky way ® opposite Coyote (the Dipper), who 
tended his fish net, fastened to the immovable star. Coyote’s companion, intent 
upon some prank, ran along the milky way toward the south and fell off, where 
he may be seen as six stars ¢ arranged like the seven stars that represent Coyote. 
He is generally seen with his head lower than his tail. But when the Moon is 
full she takes him in her lap, and we can see him there as Rabbit (man in the 
moon). 
Earth Doctor took his seat at the end of the milky way that is south,? on the 
western side, opposite Fox. Only his head may be seen. It is very large and 
grand. His face is looking toward the west. The lower end of his long braid 
of hair is in the milky way. When ‘“ the moon is dead” and stars are thick two 
eagle feathers may be seen in his hair, each composed of three very small stars 
in a row. 
The vessel containing the seed of future generations floated upon the water, 
and, as the waters subsided, touched ground at the highest point; Che-o-tmaka, 
as the Pima cal! him, the Maricopa Kokmat, crossed over the sky to get the 
vessel. But Coyote was just ahead of him, and took refuge in the joint of a 
great reed that floated upon the water. There were three other joints of reed 
floating by it, and Coyote having sealed up his reed with resin from the mesquite 
and chaparral bushes, Kokmat could not tell in which he was concealed. 
Now, the earth was barely dry enough to support one who passed over it rap- 
idly, but if he stopped he would sink. As both Coyote and Kokmat wanted the 
vessel, they ran toward it, Coyote coming forth from his reed when it had 
floated to a point on the opposite side of the vessel from Kokmat. Coyote chal- 
lenged Kokmat to exchange places with him and see which could first arrive. 
The offer was accepted. The two were so nearly equally matched that both 
arrived at the same time. They tried again, with the same result. When they 
« Corona Borealis. © In Sagittarius (7). 
° Cassiopeia’s Chair. 4 Scorpio and the others (see Hehuleyuks in constellations). 
