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left for the food of man on the face of the earth, save only roots, clover, 
and earth-worms. These three things were all that men had to eat. 
Also Kodoyampeh changed the air so that it was no longer always the 
same the year round, but now there was frost, and rain, and fog, and wind, and 
heat, and drought, together with the pleasant days. Asa recompense he gave 
them fire to warm themselves, whereas before they had had only stones to 
press against their bodies. He established the seasons—Kum’-men-ni (the 
rain season); Yo’-ho-men-ni (the leaf season); I’-hi-lak-ki (the dry season); 
Mat’-men-ni (the falling-leaf season). He also instituted the sacred kw'-meh, 
the assembly-hall, and gave the Konkau songs to sing, but he did not yet 
give them any dances. Before this time they had had no diseases and no 
deaths, but after they cooked and ate in the woods they became subject to 
fever and pestilences, and many died. But Kodoyampeh told them that if 
they were good, at death they would go away to the spirit-land by the right- 
hand path (yim’-dim-bo), which is light ; but if they were bad they would go 
away by the left-hand path (dak’-kim-bo), which leads away into darkness. 
LEGEND OF OAN-KOI’-TU-PEH. 
An old man named Pi-u’-chun-nuh, long ago, lived at We-le’-u-deh 
(above Oroville near Cherokee Flat). In those days the Indians lived 
wholly on clover, roots, and earth-worms; there was ne game, no fish, 
no acorns, no nuts, no grasshoppers. Piuchunnuh went about everywhere, 
praying to hear a voice; he prayed to the woods, and to the rocks, and to 
the river. He prayed in the assembly-house, and listened if perchance he 
might hear a voice answering his prayer. But he heard nothing. He went 
to the oak and looked to see if it bore acorns, but it had only leaves; he 
went to the manzanita bush and looked for berries, but it had only leaves. 
He brought the leaves in the house and he prayed three days and nights ; 
but still no answer, no voice. 
Far away to the north, in the ice-land, there lived two old men, Hai’- 
kut-wo-to-peh (the great one’, and Woan’-no-mih (the death-giver). 
Piuchunnuh resolved to send for them. He sent a boy to see them, and 
the boy went like a humming-bird, and reached the ice-land in one day. 
These two old men lived in a house and they were asleep inside (it was in 
