384 ZUNI CREATION MYTHS. [eth.ann.13 



brightness and cried out with many mouth-motioniugs that surely now 

 the Father was coming; but it was only the elder of the Bright Ones, 

 gone before Avith elder nations and with his shield of flame, heralding 

 from afar (as we herald with wet shell scales or crystals) the approach 

 of the Sun-father! And when, low down in the east the Sun father 

 himself appeared, what though shrouded in the midst of the great 

 world waters, they were so blinded and heated by his light aud glory 

 that they cried out to one another in anguish and fell down wallowing 

 and covering their eyes with their bare hands and arms. Yet ever 

 anew they looked afresh to the light and anew struggled toward the 

 sun as moths aud other night creatures seek the light of a camp fire; 

 yea, and what though burned, seek ever anew that light! 



Thus ere long they became used to the light, and to this high world 

 they had entered. Wherefore, when they arose and no longer walked 

 bended, lo! it was then that they first looked full upon one another 

 and in horror of their filthier parts, strove to hide. these, even fi'om one 

 another, with girdles of bark and rushes; aud when by thus walking 

 only upon their hinder feet the same became bruised and sore, they 

 sought to protect them with ijlaited soles (sandals) of jTicca fiber, 



THE ORIGIN OF PRIESTS AND OF KNOWLEDGE. 



It was thus, by much devising of ways, that men began to grow know- 

 ing in many things, and were instructed by what they saw, and so 

 became wiser and better able to receive the words and gifts of their 

 fathers aud elder brothers, the gods. Twain and others, and priests. 

 For already masters-to-be were amongst them. Even in the dark of 

 the under-worlds such had come to be; as had, indeed, the various 

 kinds of creatures-to-be, so these. And according to their natures they 

 had found and cherished things, aud had been granted gifts by the gods ; 

 but as yet they knew not the meaning of their own powers and posses- 

 sions, even as children know not the meanings and right uses of the 

 precious or needfid things given them; nay nor yet the functions of 

 theii- very parts! 'Now in the light of the Sun-father, persons became 

 knowa from persons, and these things from other things; and thus the 

 people came to know their many fathers among men, to know them by 

 themselves or by the possessions they had. 



Now the first and most perfect of all these fathers among men after 

 Poshaiyaijk'ya was Yanduluha, who brought up from the under- world 

 water of the inner ocean, and seeds of life-production and growiog 

 things; in gourds'he brought these up, and also things containing the 

 "of-doing-powers." 



THE ORIGIN OF THE RAVEN AND THE MACAW, TOTEMS OF 

 W^INTER AND SUMMER. 



He who was named YanAiduha carried ever in his hand a staff 

 which now in the daylight appeared plumed aud covered with feathers 



