398 ZUXI CREATION MYTHS. ieth.an.n. 13 



We afar sought for water, 

 Drinkiug dew from our father, 

 Like (leer, ou the mouiitaius ! 

 Aud for long ere ye found us 

 Ye wandered iu hunger, 

 Seeking seed of the grasses. 

 Like birds on the mesas. 

 Thus, 'tis well, brothers younger. 

 That ye dwell by our firesides! 



Thus, happily were our fathers joined to the People of the Dew, and 

 the many houses ou the hills were now builded together iu the plain 

 where first grew the corn plants abundautly ; being prepared year after 

 year by the beautiful custom of the ever young maidens, and attended 

 faithfully by the labors of the people and the vigils of their fathers. 



THE RENEWAL OF THE SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE. 



When men had almost forgotten the seeking of the Middle, the eai'th 

 trembled anew, aud the shells sounded warning. Murmuring sore 

 when the Twain Beloved came and called them again, yet carrying 

 whatsoever they could with them (more preciously than all things else 

 save their little ones, the seed of corn!), they and the people they had 

 dwelt with journeyed on, seeking safety. For now, their kin were 

 mingled; thus, their children were one i^eople. Wheresoever they 

 rested, they builded them great houses of stone, all together, as may 

 still be seen. And in the plains ever they built them bowers for the 

 watching of the renewal and growth of the seeds of the corn. There- 

 fore, they never hungered whether journeying anon or sitting still. 



THE CHOOSING OF SEEKERS FOR SIGNS OF THE MIDDLE. 



j^ow with much of journeying the people came to grow weary with 

 ever seeking for the Middle all together, along a single way, insomuch 

 that increasingly they murmured whenever they were summoned aud 

 must needs be leaving their homes and accustomed ranging-places. 

 And so they fell to devising amongst themselves, until at last it 

 seemed good to them to be sending messengers forth iu one direction 

 and another, the sooner to feel out the better way, aud flud signs of the 

 Middle: as, by dividing, a company of hunters the sooner find trace of 

 their quarry. 



Xow there was a priest of the people named Ka'wimosa (of the Ka'ka 

 master-maker or source), thus named because he it was who was to estab- 

 lish, all unwittingly, the most jjotent and good sacred dance (myth- 

 drama or Ka'ka) as happened after this wise : 



He had four sons (some say more) and a daughter. And Uis eldest 

 sou was named K-yak'la, which signifies, it is said, "Whensoever;" 

 for he was wiser of words and the understanding thereof than all 

 others, having listened to the councils of men with all beings, since 



