294 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE: WICHITA. 
had seen would be in use. The tree for the bow was also to be used 
for shinny clubs, etc., for it was hard; the cedar tree was for their 
lodges ; the soap weed they were to use for grass-lodges, etc. From the 
time when the promises were made to them it was promised further on 
that they would have their grass-lodge built and would be given plenty 
of things to use, and there would be corn planted by the lodge, which 
they were to eat. 
This went on until finally one morning they woke and found they 
were in a grass-lodge, and outside of this place they found four corn 
stalks, each having on it an ear of corn. They observed that the 
promises that had been made to them were being fulfilled. They had been ~ 
promised a grass-lodge with a cedar frame; that in the future the people 
were to use cedar for their grass-lodge frames. These grass-lodges 
were to stand for a while without being torn down, and they could 
endure hard winds. After they had settled down in the place where 
they woke up they were told to go ahead with their work with the 
materials they already had. The man was told that it was time for 
the animals to generate, and it was his duty to hunt for his meat, for 
the weapons and game were for that purpose. The woman was told 
to teach others to plant the corn. Generation after generation the corn 
was to be used, and if the time should come that they planted corn and 
something else than corn came up, it would be a sign that the end of 
the world was at hand. 
56. THE DELUGE AND THE REPEOPLING OF THE EARTH.* 
Once upon a time there was a head man who had many thousands 
of people to rule. The time came when his wife was to give birth to 
four children in the form of something like that of the horse. When 
this came to pass the head man was displeased, and got some one to 
carry the young monsters away; but they grew rapidly, and it made 
the chief fell badly. Up to this time the people had been in the habit 
of wandering from one place to another, but the time had now. come 
when they could not get around without being injured by these mon- 
sters. They went around under the monsters’ feet, and when they tried 
to go on further the monsters would reach down and get them and 
swallow them. The monsters, who were called Standing-in-Water* 
(Hoskakakadiki), faced north, east, south, and west. 
The time came when the chief selected a certain man to go due 
northwest, to see a certain being who, though but'a small man, had 
*Told by Ahahe (Waco). 
