422 ZUNI CREATION MYTHS. [eth.ann.13 



And deluged the vale with swift water; 

 And [etc.]. 



When they named the sixth name of the soug strand, 

 Saiahiwan i ripped the earth open ; 



Gliosts, corpses, and demons of blackness 

 Writhed forth in hot flames from the chasm, 



And hurled the gods into tht water ! 

 Black smoke rose and strangled the people. 



Who fell, like the stricken of lightning! 

 It stiffened the drummer and singers 



Whose song ceased to sound, when, all weakly, 

 They named the last name of the song strand — 



Nor moved, when replied t'nahainte, 

 Whirling in (twisting trees as the spinner 



Twists fiber of yucca), and rescued 

 The Twain from the hot, surging waters, 



Dried the foam in their hair to war-bonnets, 

 Caught his brothers the Wind Gods in order 



And hurled them, each one to his mountain 

 (In the north, in the west, and the southw.ard; 



In the east, and the upper, and under) ; 

 And rising, uplifted the smoke-clouds. 



Lo! the world was alight with the sunshine. 

 And bending above was the Rainbow ! 



But the drummer and singers were sitting. 



Lifted up by the power of the ancients; 

 Close enwrapped in the dust swept around them. 



Made stark by the roar of the death-sounds. 

 Fixed in death by the shock of the lightnings. 



Burned hard by the frost-mingled tire-draughts; 

 Still sat they, their drum in the middle. 



As they sit evermore, in that valley. 



Lo! dwarfed and hideous-disgui-sed were the two gods Aliaiyuta 

 and M4tsaileuia, erst Uauainachi Piahkoa or the Beloved Twain who 

 Descended — strong now with the full strength of evil; and armed 

 as warriors of old, with long bows and black stone tipped arrows of 

 cane-wood in quivers of long- tailed skins of catamounts; whizzing 

 slings, and death-singing slung stones in iiber- pockets; spears with 

 dart dealing fling-slats, and blood-drinking broad-knives of gray stone 

 in fore-pouches of fur-skin; short face-pulping war-clubs stuck aslant 

 in their girdles, and on their backs targets of cotton close plaited with 

 yucca. Yea, and on their trunks, were casings of scorched rawhide, 

 horn-like in hardness, and on their heads wore they helmets of strength 

 like to the thick neck-hide of male elks, whereof they were fashioned. 



Small were they Twain, 



Small and misshapen ; 

 Strong were they Twain, 



Strong and hard favored; 

 Enduringly thoughtful were they Twain, 



Enduring of will; 

 Unyieldingly thoughtful were they Twain, 



Unyielding of will : 



