404 THE MOUNTAIN CHANT. 
fire on which there was no wood. Four pebbles lay on the ground to- 
gether: a black pebble in the east, a blue one in the south, a yellow 
one in the west, and a white one in the north; from these the flames 
issued forth. Around the fire lay four bears, colored and placed to cor- 
respond with the pebbles. When the strangers approached the fire 
the bears asked them for tobacco, and when the former replied ‘that 
they had none the bears became angry and thrice more demanded it. 
When the Navajo fled from the Ute camp he had helped himself from 
one of the four bags which the council was using and had taken a 
pipe, and these he had tied up in his skin robe; so when the fourth 
demand was made he filled the pipe and lighted it at the fire. He 
handed the pipe to the black bear, who, taking but one whiff, passed it 
to the blue bear and immediately fell senseless. The blue bear took 
two whiffs and passed the pipe, when he too fell over in a state of un- 
consciousness. The yellow bear succumbed after the third whift, and 
the white bear, in the north, after the fourth whiff. Now the Navajo 
knocked the ashes and tobacco out of his pipe and rubbed the latter on 
the feet, legs, abdomen, chest, shoulders, forehead, and mouth of each 
of the bears in turn, and they were at once resuscitated. He replaced 
the pipe in the corner of his robe. When the bears recovered they 
assigned to the Navajo a place on the east side of the fire where he 
might lie all night, and they brought out their stores of corn meal and 
tciltcin and other berries and offered them to him to eat; but Qastceélei 
warned him not to touch the food and again disappeared. So, hungry 
as he was, the Indian lay down supperless to sleep. When he woke 
in the morning the bears again offered food, which he again declined, 
saying he was not hungry. Then they showed him how to make the’ 
bear kethawns, or sticks to be sacrificed to the bear gods, and they 
drew from one corner of the cave a great sheet of cloud, which they 
unrolled, and on it were painted the forms of the yays of the cultivated 
plants. As he departed the bears said, ‘‘There are others in these 
parts who have secrets to tell you. Yonder is Tsenasteci, where many 
dwell.” So he set forth for Tsenastei (Circle of Red Stones.) 
41. As he passed down the valley he heard a loud rushing noise be 
hind him, and looking around he beheld a tornado, The air was filled 
with logs and uprooted trees, borne along by the great storm. Itcame 
nearer and seemed to be advancing to destroy him. He was terrified _ 
and cried out to the storm: “Ciyéicee, Dsilyis Neyani, Qailaci?” (“Tis 
I, Reared Within the Mountains. Who art thou?”) The tempest recog- 
nized him and subsided, and in its place appeared four men in the shape 
of the gloi or weasel. The four weasel men showed him how to make 
the gloi-bikecan, or sacrificial sticks of the gloi. What name the Nav- 
ajo bore before this time the ancient tale does not tell us; but from 
the moment he said these words he was cailed among the gods Dsilyié 
Neyani, and was afterwards known by this name among his people. 
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