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actly like the above. The fourth series embraced nineteen dances. 
The only variation in this was that the leaders were often more clown- 
ish in their performances, and upon several occasions only four men 
representing women appeared. In this case two men danced together. 
Some of the dancers dropped out from weariness, which caused diminu- 
tion in some of the sets. The last dance closed at the first light of day. 
The song-priest had preceded the last dancers to the green room and 
awaited their arrival to obtain the masks, which were his special prop- 
erty. 
MYTHS OF THE NAVAJO. 
CREATION OF THE SUN. 
The first three worlds were neither good nor healthful. They moved 
all the time and made the people dizzy. Upon ascending into this 
world the Navajo found only darkness and they said ‘* We must have 
light.” 
In the Ute Mountain lived two women, Ahsonnutli, the turquoise 
hermaphrodite, and Yolaikaiason, the white-shell woman. These two 
women were sent for by the Navajo, who told them they wished light. 
The Navajo had already partially separated light into its several colors. 
Next to the floor was white indicating dawn, upon the white blue was 
spread for morning, and on the blue yellow for sunset, and next was 
black representing night. They had prayed long and continuously 
over these, but their prayers had availed nothing. The two women on 
arriving told the people to have patience and their prayers would 
eventually be answered. 
Night had a familiar, who was always at his ear. This person said, 
“Send for the youth at the great falls.” Night sent as his messenger a 
shooting star. The youth soon appeared and said, “Ahsonnutli, the 
ahstjeohltoi (hermaphrodite), has white beads in her right breast and 
turquoise in her left. We will tell her to lay them on darkness and see 
what she can do with her prayers.” This she did.t The youth from 
the great falls said to Ahsonnutli, “You have carried the white-shell 
beads and turquoise a long time; you should know what to say.” Then 
with a erystal dipped in pollen she marked eyes and mouth on the tur- 
quoise and on the white-shell beads, and forming a circle around these 
with the erystal she produced a slight light from the white-shell bead 
and a greater light from the turquoise, but the light was insufficient. 
Twelve men lived at each of the cardinal points. The forty-eight 
men were sent for. After their arrival Ahsonnutli sang a song, the 
men sitting opposite to her; yet even with their presence the song failed 
to secure the needed light. Two eagle plumes were placed upon each 
cheek of the turquoise and two on the cheeks of the white-shell beads 
1 The old priest relating this myth now produced a pouch containing corn pollen and a crystal, which 
he dipped in the pollen and said, ‘‘ Now we must all eat of this pollen and place some on our heads, for 
we are to talk about it.” 
