28 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
and there will be many upon the ground.”” The young man went back 
into the cave and the woman said: ‘‘I have given you all the things that I 
promised you. Now you must go and give the seeds to the people, and 
let them put them in the ground. I shall return to the place where I 
came from and shall stay there forever. When I want to speak to you I 
will come to your bedside, and talk to you in your dreams. Then you 
must tell the people what I tell you.” 
The young man returned to the village and told the people that it was 
now time that they should have seeds; that they must put them into the 
ground and take care of them until the corn-stalks were dry and the corn 
ready to be gathered. The people did as the boy told them and they 
had plenty of corn and plenty of meat. The young man went to the cave 
once more, and he found that the spring was dry and that the cave had 
closed in and there was no opening. When the people found this out 
they became dissatisfied and divided into bands, and they went in dif- 
ferent directions. 
4, THE FOUR GODS OF THE NORTH.’ 
After Tirawa created the world he created a man and put him upon 
the earth facing the north. Tirawa told this man to put his thumbs to- 
gether and point towards the north. The man obeyed and his thumb- 
nails received the imprint of the faces of the two godsinthenorth. After 
the man’s thumb-nails had grown out and the faces had disappeared, he 
was told by Tirawa again to point his two thumbs toward the north, and 
the imprint of the faces of the other two gods were placed upon them.’ 
These four gods gave the man power to create a mate for himself. The 
gods in the north sent Kingfisher to the earth, who divided the earth so 
1Told by High-Eagle, a Kitkehahki medicine-man, about sixty years old. This 
tale explains the origin of the ceremony of the four gods of the north. These are 
the gods who send buffalo to the people, and who send rain that the crops may 
grow. The chief object in relating the story is that the children who may be pres- 
ent, sitting about the entrance to the lodge, may always bear in mind that these 
four gods exist in the north and that there is especially one of them, known as 
Ready-to-Give, who is the special patron of thehunters. It is said that often the 
Pawnee when on the hunt, failing to find game, raise their hands to the north and 
say: ‘‘Nawa, Kawahar, you are the leader of all the gods of the north. Send me 
game that I may kill it for my people.”’ 
2In the ceremony referred to in this tale, four sticks are erected on the north 
side of the lodge, each one bearing a clam shell. Collectively they represent the 
four gods of the north referred to in this tale, which in turn represent the imprints 
of the faces placed on the thumb-nails as referred to in the text. In this connec- 
tion it may be noted that the shell disk worn by the Kitkehahki on their heads is 
said to have had its origin from these four gods, as is the case among the Skidi. 
These sticks are covered with raven feathers, for the raven, like the coyote, is 
ates Pa in finding game. Ready-to-Give is supposed to be similarly 
endowed. 
