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and he pulled out another. He held him up and said: ‘And what is your 
name?” Thismanwasalsoahuman being. He wore the robe and the red 
paint, but upon his forehead was painted the picture of lightning. He said: 
‘‘My name is Lightning.’’ Then he pulled out another. He also was 
painted. ‘‘What is your name?” the boy said. He said: ‘‘My name 
is Loud-Thunder.’’ Then he dropped him in front of his brother. Then 
he reached in again. This time he pulled out another human being. 
He held him up and said: ‘‘What is your name?’’ This being said: 
‘““My name is Wonderful-Lightning.” ‘So your name is Wonderful- 
Lightning? I have taken your lightning from you. You shall go to my 
home with me and you shall work there for my father.’’ He dropped him 
down in front of Handsome-Boy and then the strange boy came down. 
When he got down he spoke roughly to the four beings. He took two 
of them by the arm and said: ‘‘Here, Handsome-Boy, you take these 
two and I will take the other two.’’ Then they went to their earth- 
lodge and placed the four beings near the lodge. After a while the 
father came. The boys ran to him and said: ‘‘Father, we have brought 
Lightnings and Thunders, four in number, and they shall work for you.”’ 
The father said: ‘‘Children, you have done wrong. They are from the 
heavens. They are not to be molested. You must take them back to 
the place where you got them.” Then the strange boy said: “‘No; 
Tirawa did not intend that these things should be upon a tree always, where 
they could kill whoever came near them.’’ Then the boy took one of 
the beings and said: ‘‘Now you must fly in the west. You must be in 
the west always and you shall be the one who shall thunder first early in 
the spring.’’ Then he took one of the Lightnings and he said: ‘‘Go with 
the Thunder, and when the thunders first sound you must also lighten 
around the circle of the heavens.’’ Then he took the other Thunder and 
said: ‘““You must stand in the south, and you, Wonderful-Lightning, 
must go with this one. There will be times when you travel over the 
earth. The thunders will sound loud and the lightnings will be thick. 
Sometimes you will kill people.’” These beings were glad and they 
promised to do as the boy had said. They disappeared and were never 
to remain upon the earth any more. Now these boys had scattered the 
thunders and lightnings. The father of the two boys was now becoming 
afraid of them. 
One day the father sat down with the two boys and he began to talk 
to them. He told them of the many wonderful places where he had 
told them not to go, but they had gone anyway and had destroyed those 
places. At last they had destroyed the gods and he thought that was 
too much. The man said: ‘‘There is but one more place where I do 
