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secret which the Twain gods were teaching uuto the first Priests of 

 the Bow. 



THE DOWNFALL OF HAN'HLIPirjK'YA, AND THE SEARCH ANEW 



FOR THE MIDDLE. 



Thus wise were the Priests of the Bow established by teaching of the 



Twain, whose breatlis of destrnction each one of them breathed in due 



part; whom none might gainsay; nay, not even the fathers whose 



speakers they were, and with whom none might contend ; nay, not even 



, sorcerers, whose scourgers they were — nor yet the Fearful! 



And so, when on a dark night thereafter the world groaned and the 

 shells sounded warning, all together the Twain and these their new 

 warriors sought the priest-fathers of the people, bidding them take in 

 hand for carrying, their tabernacles of precious possessions. And 

 swiftly and sternly too they wakened all sleepers, old ones and young, 

 and those who obeyed them were gathered in clan-lines and led ott' to 

 safety, for Ahaijuta, the elder, and his warriors journeyed before 

 them, and Matsailema, the younger, and his warriors followed behind — 

 shields of the jjeople, makers and destroyers of pathways ! But those 

 who loved sleeping or who murmured like children were left to their evil ; 

 they were choked by tlie black fumes, or buried in the walls of their 

 houses, which fell when jiresently the earth heaved with dire fames, fire 

 and thunder. Their bones are still digged by the gopher and marmot. 



Thus, from country to country journeyed the people, their fathers 

 the priests and the keepers of the mysteries, with the women and 

 children in their midst, while before them, from valley to '.alley, the 

 Bow-priests swept danger away. 



THE WARS WITH THE BLACK PEOPLE OF THE HIGH BUILDINGS 

 AND WITH THE ANCIENT W^OMAN OF THE K'YA'KWEINA AND 

 OTHER KA'KAKWE. 



At last the people neared, in the midst of plains to the eastward, 

 gi-eat towns built in the heights (heshotaydlaica). But in these times the 

 thoughts of their warriors were always those of the eagle or mountain- 

 lion or other fierce crsatures of prey. Of those they met it was "Lo, 

 now ! If I can but seize him and utterly overthrow him and eat of his 

 substance, feeding therewith also my kind ! " Thus, only, thought they. 



G-reat were the fields and possessions of this i)eople, for they knew how 

 to command and carry the waters', bringing new soil; and this too with- 

 out hail or rain. So, our ancients, hungry with long wandering for new 

 food, were the more greedy, and gave them battle. Now as these people 

 of the highlands and clifts were of the elder nations of men and were 

 allied to the Akiika-kwe (the Man-soul Dance-gods) themselves, these 

 our people, ere they had done, were well nigh finished of fighting. For 

 it was here that the K'yakweina Ok'yiitsiki, or Ancient Woman of the 

 K'y^kweina, who carried her heart in her rattle and was deathless 



