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whole region ; their wise men and medicine men (priests) made 

 the sun, moon, and stars (for it was as yet dark) after four days ex- 

 periment ; and one of the medicine men went with the sun to 

 regulate its movements and he was never afterwards seen, but con- 

 tinues with the sun to this day. 



A similar wise or magic man, but of the Zuriis, went with the 

 moon. 



After this they planted the seeds of trees and vegetation in gen- 

 eral, which they had brought up with them. 



After increasing to a great number, a conflagration destroyed all 

 but a few of the people ; and after this remnant had again increased 

 to a large number, certain monstrous animals and a giant in human 

 form came and devoured all but one male and one female. Tins 

 female found a female child at the foot of a rainbow one day, which 

 she took home and raised as her daughter. In due time this child, 

 having grown to maturity, became the mother of two male children 

 by the sun. These children were infants in arms four days ; after 

 which they were able to run about four more days ; and at the end 

 of this period they were men grown. 



On reaching manhood they asked their mother about their father ; 

 and being by her instructed, set off on a long journey to visit their 

 father, whose house they found far away in the East ; after an in- 

 terview with him they returned, journeying with their father in his 

 daily course in the heavens, to their own country ; and by his as- 

 sistance, killed the various monsters which had devoured their 

 people. 



Under instructions from their father they consulted their mother 

 about re-peopling the earth ; and she, by magic, made one male and 

 one female in human shape ; and this pair was the source of nearly 

 all the Navajos. 



This woman went then to a great ocean in the West, where she 

 still lives; and she and the sun-man are the deities which are 

 reverenced by the Navajos. 



The story is localized by the introduction of the names of moun- 



