284 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS. 
kiddi represented among the Navajo, for they would not believe it and 
there would be trouble. They could not learn all of their songs. The 
youth returned to his brothers, carrying with him all songs, all medi- 
cine, and clothing. 
THE OLD MAN AND WOMAN OF THE FIRST WORLD. 
In the lower world four gods were created by Etseastin and Etseasun. 
These gods were so annoyed by ants that they said, “‘ Let us go to the 
four points of the world.” A spring was found at each of the cardinal 
points, and each god took possession of a spring, which he jealously 
guarded. 
Etseastin and Etseasun were jealous because they had no water and 
they needed some to produce nourishment. The old man finally 
obtained a little water from each of the gods and planted it, and from 
it he raised a spring such as the gods had. From this spring came 
corn and other vegetation. Etseastin and Etseasun sat on oppo- 
site sides of the spring facing each other, and sang and prayed and 
talked to somebody about themselves, and thus they originated worship. 
One day the old man saw some kind of fruit in the middle of the spring. 
He tried to reach it but he could not, and asked the spider woman (a 
member of his family) to get it for him. She spun a web across the 
water and by its use procured the fruit, which proved to be a large white 
shell, quite as large as a Tusayan basket. The following day Etseastin 
discovered another kind of fruit in the spring which the spider woman 
also brought him; this fruit was the turquoise. The third day still 
another kind of fruit was discovered by him and obtained by the spider 
woman; this was the abalone shell. The fourth day produced the 
black stone bead, which was also procured. 
After ascending into the upper world Etseastin visited the four cor- 
ners to see what he could find. (They had brought a bit of everything 
from the lower world with them). From the east he brought eagle 
feathers; from the south feathers from the bluejay; in the west he 
found hawk feathers, and in the north speckled night bird (whippoor- 
will) feathers. Etseastin and Etseasun carried these to a spring, plae- 
ing them toward the cardinal pomts. The eagle plumes were laid to 
the east and near by them white corn and white shell; the blue feathers 
were laid to the south with blue corn and turquoise; the hawk feathers 
were laid to the west with yellow corn and abalone shell; and to the 
north were laid the whippoorwill feathers with black beads and corn of 
all the several colors. The old man and woman sang and prayed as 
they had done at the spring in the lower world. They prayed to the 
past, and the white wolf was created; to the south, and the otter ap- 
peared; to the west, and the mountain lion came; and to the north, the 
beaver. Etseastin made these animals rulers over the several points 
from which they came. 
