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showed them deer, buffalo, antelope and all kinds of game, and said, 
“Do you want these?” The Spirit said, “Tell him no.” The father 
then brought the boys home, and said, “ My children, what can I do 
for you?” 
The boys looked and saw four lightning arrows and a huge bow hang- 
ing on the wall. The spirit said, “Tell him that you want these; that 
some animals, a Huge Giant, Twelve Antelope, a Huge Bird, an Animal 
Whose Hair Grew Fast to the Rock, are eating all the Navajos. Those 
arrows will kill them.” 
The sun replied, “ The Giant’ is my son and your brother, but if he 
is eating the Navajos you have my permission to kill him. He has 
no right to live. I will take you and go to-morrow morning.” 
On the following morning they started, and came to Sanmateo 
Mountain® about noon. The sun said, “ Boys, where did you start 
from?” The Spirit said, “ Tell him that it was from here ; that here is 
where the Big Giant was.” Then the sun let the lightning down, and 
the boys climbed down the lightning to a big spring at the foot of the 
mountains. 
The Giant drank the water from the spring, and then lay down on a 
rock to rest. He did this the second time and the third time and the 
fourth time. As he turned his face toward the north the boys saw him 
lying on the rock. The Giant turned his face toward the east, and 
they could see his shoulders. He turned his face to the south, and 
they could see his waist. He turned his face to the west, and they 
could see his whole body. 
The Giant now saw the boys and said, “ Will not they make fine 
eating?” The Spirit said, “ Tell him that he will make fine eating.” 
The giant then flew in a rage and threw an iron boomerang at the 
head of the older boy. The Spirit said, “Stoop low, for he is throwing 
at your head.” The Giant then threw one at his middle; the Spirit 
said, “Jump to the right or he will hit you.” He next threw one 
very low, and the Spirit said, “ Jump high, for he is going to throw it 
low.” . 
The sun then appeared and said, “ He is my son and I will have the 
first chance at him.” Then the sun struck him with the lightning. 
The Giant fell to the earth and grew weak because he lost his blood. 
Navajo mythology is so replete. Dr. Mathews refers to it several times in his 
« Mountain Chant,” found in the annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1883- 
84, J. W. Powell, Director. 
