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of beautiful colors — yellow, bluivgreeu, and red, white, black, and 

 varied. Attached to it were shells and other potent conteuts of the 

 uuder-world. When the people saw all these things and the beauti- 

 ful baton, and heard the song-like tinkle of the sacred sliells, they 

 stretched forth their hands like little children and cried oiit, asking- 

 many questions. 



Yanaululia, and other priests (shiwandteuna) having been made 

 wise by teaching of the masters of life (god-beings) witli self-magic- 

 knowing {yam tsepan dnikiraiuiii), replied: "It is a staff of extension, 

 wherewith to test the hearts and understandings of children." Then 

 he balanced it in his hand and struck with it a hard place and blew 

 upon it. Amid the plumes appeared four round things, seeds of moving 

 beings, mere eggs were they, two blue like the sky or turkis; two dun- 

 red like the flesh of the Earth-mother. 



Again the people cried out with wonder and ecstasy, and again asked 

 they questions, many. 



"These be," said he who was named Yauauluha, "the seed of liv- 

 ing things; both the cberishers and annoyancers, of summer time; 

 choose ye without greed which ye will have for to follow ! For from 

 one twain shall issue beings of beautiful plumage, colored like the 

 verdure and fruitage of summer ; and whither they fly and ye follow, 

 shall be everlastingly manifest summer, and without toil, the pain 

 wliereof ye ken not, fields full fertile of food shall flourish there. And 

 from the other twain shall issue beings evil, uncolored, black, piebald 

 with white ; and wliither these two shall fly and ye follow, shall strive 

 winter with summer; fields furnished only by labor such as ,\e wot not 

 of shall ye find there, and contended for between their ottspring and 

 yours shall be the food-fruits thereof. 



"The blue! the blue!" cried the people, and those who were most 

 hasty and strongest strove for the blue eggs, leaving the other eggs 

 for those who had waited. "See," said they as they carried them with 

 much gentleness and laid them, as one would the new-born, in soft 

 sand on the sunny side of a clift", watching them day by day, " precious 

 of color are these; surely then, of precious things they must be the 

 seed!" And "Yea verily!" said they when the eggs cracked and 

 worms issued, presently becoming birds with open eyes and with pin- 

 feathers under their skins, " Verily we chose with understanding, for see ! 

 yellow and blue, red and greeu are their dresses, even seen through 

 their skins! " So they fed the pair freely of the food that men favor — 

 thus alas! cherishing their appetites for food of all kinds! But when 

 their feathers appeared they were black with white bandings; for 

 ravens were they! And they flew away mocking our fathers and 

 croaking coarse laughs ! 



And the other eggs held by those who had waited and by their 

 father Yaniiuluha, became gorgeous macaws and were wafted by 

 him with a toss of his wand to the far southward summer-laud. As 

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