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takes delight in destroying things. His friends are generally sor- 
cerers and otgont (evilly potent) beasts. Many legends are related 
about Dagwanoeient in his various forms, for he has several trans- 
formations. | 
The Zephyr, Gaha‘, is a softer wind than the stormy Dagwan- 
oeient, and appears to be of a kindlier disposition. While Gaha 
may have done magical things, they were not done with evil intent. 
There are legends that tell how Gaha wooed some fair forest maid 
and married her. Gaha helps plants grow and is associated with 
the warm season when fruits ripen and mature. 
The Frost god is known as Ha”tho’. He is described as a fierce 
and unrelenting old man who lives where frosts and ice abound the 
year around. His home in the North is called Othowege. It is he 
who brings the frost and who causes the snows to sweep over the 
earth. His clothing is ice and he carries a maul with which he 
pounds the ice on rivers and lakes, making them crack with a re- 
sounding boom. He also causes that peculiar knocking sound on 
trees when the weather is very cold. He has one great enemy, the 
spirit of Spring, who assisted by Thaw drives him from the region 
_ that he has invaded and sends him grumbling back to the northland. 
The Frost god has as his friends Dagwanoeient, the Storm Wind, 
and Falling Hail. 
The Hail spirit is called Owisondyon. He loves to startle lh 
by coming unexpectedly i in the warm months of early summer and to 
pelt the growing crops with his icy missles. Sometimes he is given 
the name, Dehodyadgaowen, meaning Divided Body. 
The Spring god is Dedio‘s‘nwineqdo". He is young and very 
muscular. He loves to wrestle with the winter winds and even 
enters Ha’’t‘ho’s lodge and teases him to desperation while his faith- 
ful ally, Thaw, plays havoc with the ice and the drifts outside. 
Spring tortures the Winter god with a medicine made of blackberry 
juice, for the Winter god knows that when blackberries grow he is 
beyond the power of injuring the world. At last Spring and Winter 
have a wrestling match in which Winter is overcome and his bodily 
form melts upon the ground, while his spirit whines away, driven 
north by the south winds. Spring lives in Oné’na®’ge‘, sunshine 
land. 
The Thaw god is Daga’é™’da, the faithful ally of Spring. When 
he comes in midwinter he appears suddenly and begins to wreck the 
icy blankets that winter has placed over the earth. Winter then 
knows that Spring is coming and exerts all his magic to freeze the 
world again and to make his reign even more terrible. Time passes 
