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cloud that pointed toward the south, and a red cloud that pointed to- 
ward the west. It was now pretty near night (sundown). 
The sun had two children by this young wife, a girl and a boy. 
The boy spoke and said, “ I hear my father coming home, for I hear 
the white gourd rattle.” 
The girl spoke and said, “ My father is coming, for I hear the blue 
gourd rattle.” Then the boy said, “ My father is coming home, for I 
hear the ivory gourd rattle.” The girl spoke and said, “ My father is 
coming close, for I hear the turquois gourd rattle.” 
At that moment the father came, making a fearful noise rattling the 
irons on his body. 
“The sun demanded of his young wife who those two young 
men were that he saw come into the house, but did not see go out 
again. 
The wife replied, “You think you are pretty cunning. You told 
me that you had no wife but me. These young men claim to be your 
sons.” . 
At this the sun became angry and rattled his gourds, and the earth 
began to tremble, the lightning flashed, the bears roared, and the 
snakes rattled and hissed. Thesun then demanded where the two 
young men were, but the wife made no answer. He demanded this 
again, but no answer. He then demanded the fourth time, but still 
the wife refused to answer. Then the sun went to the cloud in the 
east, and knocked that down; but no one fell out of it. He went to 
the cloud in the west, and knocked that down; but no one fell out of 
it. He went to the cloud in the south, and knocked that down; but 
no one fell out of it. He went to the cloud in the north and knocked 
that down, and the boys fell out of it and stood before him. 
All at once four sharp irons, corresponding to the four clouds, 
pointed toward the boys. There was a white iron from the north, a 
black iron from the east, a yellow iron from the south, and a red one 
from the west. The sun threw the boys violently against these irons, 
the north one first, then the east one, then the south one, and then the 
west one, but this white feather which the old Woman-spider gaye them 
would let them down easy; so they remained unhurt. 
The sun became angry and said, “I will find out if you are my 
children. If you withstand my test you are my children.” Then a 
spirit descended and stood on each of their ears, and told the boys how 
to answer the sun’s questions. It said, “ Tell him he is your father.” 
Then the sun took a huge turquois hammer and tried to mash the boys, 
but the feathers made the turquois hammer come down easy. The sun 
