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This Yaybichy took him to Sanmateo Mountain and told him these 
things. He told him that a thousand years from this time the people 
would follow the teachings of the Yaybichys, that his son and his son’s 
son through a period of a thousand years would be able to bring peo- 
ple back to life. 
Then the Red Yaybichy took this man to Sanmateo Mountain and 
shook the gourd over him and told him how to wave the gourd over 
the dead man, from east to west (from sunrise to sunset), and from 
north to south. Then this man came back into the Navajo tribe and 
showed them how to use the medicine things,” and he was a great 
_ medicine-man. 
But when this man came back and the Navajos broke their arms 
and legs, then they used these same medicine things, and they got well. 
So that made the Navajos have confidence in the medicine-man and 
the medicine things. 
When any one gets sick we rattle the gourd over him and he gets 
well. 
These two Yaybichys, the red one, called Ya-na’ Yä-zän, and the 
white one called T6-wizh-zhiis-chi-ni, were made on the top of Sanma- 
teo Mountain. 
There were some animals that ate the Navajos at that time, viz., a 
Bear, a Large Bird, a Huge Giant, and a Fierce Animal Whose Hair 
grew Fast to the Rocks, and which coaxed the people to pass that way, 
when he would kick them down over the rocks and then go down and 
eat them up. 
There was another fierce animal which chased the Navajos, killed 
them, and devoured them. 
The Red Yaybichy killed all these animals” off. 
' There was a sister who had twelve brothers. This sister became a 
bear and killed the twelve brothers. Then the White Yaybichy killed 
this sister. 
The father of the Red Yaybichy was the sun. The father of the 
White Yaybichy was the water—T. STANTON Van VLEET. 
The “ medicine things ” referred to are the things which are used by the Yay- 
bichy medicine-men at the present day. They consist of five pieces, each one of 
which performs a specific duty in restoring the health of the patient. The medicine- 
men claim that these “ medicine things ” have been handed down from generation to 
generation since the origin of the Yaybichys. 
These are the animals to which the “ Mysterious Maiden” gave birth 
seem to have a significant place in capes mythology, and find their way into a large 
number of their legends. 
