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The black rocks (igneous rocks) are his blood, and the petrified 
wood is his bones. The Spirit then said, “Do not let his blood run 
together, or he will get up again.” His blood ran down the hill. 
The boys then shot him with the four arrows which their father had 
given them, and killed him. The younger boy picked up the iron 
boomerangs and kept them. The younger boy was given the turquois 
gourd from his father. 
They then saw these animals—the Buffalo, the Twelve Antelope, the 
Large Bird, and the Animal Whose Hair Grew Fast to the Rocks over 
in a little valley. They shook this turquois gourd at these animals 
and the animals all died. 
The boys then went to the Cafion de Shelley’ and went into one of 
the cliff-dwellings, known as the “White House,” and disappeared, for- 
ever to remain as Yaybichys. 
THE MISSION OF THE YAYBICHYS. 
A man was once struck by lightning and knocked all to pieces. 
The Yaybichys came and sang over him and brought him to life again. 
The White Yaybichy was the first one who came. This one went over 
his body from east to west, from west to east, from north to south, and 
from south to north, and had four songs. This one picked up his 
meat. 
The Black Yaybichy did the same as the white one. ; 
The Red Yaybichy came, and when the man came partly to life he 
came from the east, and had a gourd in his hand, and made a noise — 
like lightning. He came from the south and made another queer noise. 
Then he came from the west, and then from the north, and shook the 
gourd” over the dead man’s head. 
The gourd represents the noise of the lightning when it strikes a 
person. ; 
The White Yabichy took the man home, after he got alive, and — 
showed him all these medicine things, and how he worshiped them. 
*Pronounced de Shay. It is a beautiful little cañon situated about fifty miles from 
Fort Defiance, Arizona Territory. It contains many cliff dwelli ngs, among which is 
2 the one known as the “ White House,” (because of its whitened walls) which is vis- 
ited by numerous adventurers every summer. Most of the walls remain at the pres- 
ent day. There are now twenty-six Yaybichys in the Navajo tribe, including the 
_ $un and these two boys. : 
~ “The turquois gourd referred to in the Origin of the Yaybichys, The medicine- 
-men of to-day seem to have unlimited faith in the turquois gourd, 
