28 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
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carry-Light also told them how to travel with the arrows and ball. 
This marks the time when they learned to travel fast from one place 
to another. The men went out hunting animals after they had been 
taught that animals existed for their use, and they traveled with their 
arrows and ball. They would shoot an arrow in the direction they 
wanted to go, then would go with the arrow as it went up. This is 
the way they traveled. They would hit the ball and as it flew the per- 
son would be on the ball. When the ball would hit the ground they 
would hit it again, and so they would go from place to place. Having- 
Power-to-carry-Light traveled like a spirit. When he heard of a place 
he would be right there, but the people who were made after him were 
a little slower in traveling. This sort of traveling was fast enough for 
these people. From this place the went to other places, and he taught 
the people how to use things. He would make the things for them at 
frst, then would teach them how the things were made. 
When the woman began her work among the women she gave 
them Mother-Corn, and told them that this was theirs, and this was 
their mother; that from this time they should be nursed; that with the 
use of Mother-Corn they could live and it would strengthen the young 
ones; that Mother-Corn was to be used as long as the world should 
last. There were no certain times for the women to plant the corn, 
because the time passed pretty fast. When the women planted their 
corn it would grow right up and they would gather their corn at once. 
The Moon told the women that whenever Mother-Corn was eaten by 
them, whether ground or dry, they must offer some food to Man-never- 
known-on-Earth. Then they were to eat of it, and as a prayer for 
blessing before eating of the food they were to take four kernels of 
corn and rub them over the child. ‘These were the Moon’s instructions 
to the woman. Things progressed very rapidly. The young ones grew 
quickly. The woman told the women that Mother-Corn should be used 
for many different purposes. She gave them the things that they 
should use to enjoy themselves—namely, the double-ball game. She 
showed them how to play the game and told them that the ball was for 
their use in traveling. Now she told them the time was drawing near 
when she would have to leave them, for she had gone from one place 
to another, showing the women what to do, how to travel, how to raise 
Mother-Corn, how they must eat it and offer it, in all the ways that 
Mother-Corn was to be used. She told the women that after she had 
become something else she would ask the people, especially the women, 
to look upon her once in a while. She said that by her face women 
should be able to tell their condition; by their monthly flow, whether 
