Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest | Page 5

(Arizona) Spider's Creation - Sia (New Mexico) The
Gods and the Six Regions How Old Man Above Created the World -
Shastika (Cal.) The Search for the Middle and the Hardening of the
World - Zuni (New Mexico) Origin of Light - Gallinomero (Russian
River, Cal.) Pokoh, the Old Man - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
Thunder and Lightning - Maidu (near Sacramento Valley. Cal.)
Creation of Man - Miwok (San Joaquin Valley, Cal.) The First Man
and Woman - Nishinam (near Bear River, Cal.) Old Man Above and
the Grizzlies - Shastika (Cal.) The Creation of Man-kind and the Flood

- Pima (Arizona) The Birds and the Flood - Pima (Arizona) Legend of
the Flood - Ashochimi (Coast Indians, Cal.) The Great Flood - Sia
(New Mexico) The Flood and the Theft of Fire - Tolowa (Del Norte
Co., Cal.) Legend of the Flood in Sacramento Maidu Valley - (near
Sacramento, Cal.) The Fable of the Animals - Karok (near Klamath
River, Cal.) Coyote and Sun - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.) The
Course of the Sun - Sia (New Mexico) The Foxes and the Sun - Yurok
(near Klamath River, Cal.) The Theft of Fire - Karok (near Klamath
River, Cal.) The Theft of Fire - Sia (New Mexico) The Earth-hardening
after the Flood - Sia (New Mexico) The Origins of the Totems and of
Names - Zuni (New Mexico) Traditions of Wanderings - Hopi (Arizona)
The Migration of the Water People - Walpi (Arizona) Coyote and the
Mesquite Beans - Pima (Arizona) Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and
Coast Range - Yokuts (near Fresno, Cal.) Yosemite Valley and its
Indian Names Legend of Tu-tok-a-nu'-la (El Capitan) - Yosemite
Valley Legend of Tis-se'-yak (South Dome and North Dome) Yosemite
Valley Historic Tradition of the Upper Tuolumne - Yosemite Valley
California Big Trees - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.) The Children of
Cloud - Pima (Arizona) The Cloud People - Sia (New Mexico) Rain
Song - Sia (New Mexico) Rain Song Rain Song - Sia (New Mexico)
The Corn Maidens - Zuni (New Mexico) The Search for the Corn
Maidens - Zuni (New Mexico) Hasjelti and Hostjoghon - Navajo (New
Mexico) The Song-hunter - Navajo (New Mexico) Sand Painting of the
Song-hunter - Navajo The Guiding Duck and the Lake of Death - Zuni
(New Mexico) The Boy who Became a God - Navajo (New Mexico)
Origin of Clear Lake - Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.) The Great Fire
- Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.) Origin of the Raven and the Macaw
- Zuni (New Mexico) Coyote and the Hare - Sia (New Mexico) Coyote
and the Quails - Pima (Arizona) Coyote and the Fawns - Sia (New
Mexico) How the Bluebird Got its Color - Pima (Arizona) Coyote's
Eyes - Pima (Arizona) Coyote and the Tortillas - Pima (Arizona)
Coyote as a Hunter - Sia (New Mexico) How the Rattlesnake Learned
to Bite - Pima (Arizona) Coyote and the Rattlesnake - Sia (New
Mexico) Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti - Pima (Arizona)
The Thirsty Quails - Pima (Arizona) The Boy and the Beast - Pima
(Arizona) Why the Apaches are Fierce - Pima (Arizona) Speech on the
Warpath - Pima (Arizona) The Spirit Land - Gallinomero (Russian

River, Cal.) Song of the Ghost Dance - Pai Ute (Kern River, Cal.)
The Beginning of Newness Zuni (New Mexico)
Before the beginning of the New-making, the All-father Father alone
had being. Through ages there was nothing else except black darkness.
In the beginning of the New-making, the All-father Father thought
outward in space, and mists were created and up-lifted. Thus through
his knowledge he made himself the Sun who was thus created and is
the great Father. The dark spaces brightened with light. The cloud mists
thickened and became water.
From his flesh, the Sun-father created the Seed-stuff of worlds, and he
himself rested upon the waters. And these two, the
Four-fold-containing Earth-mother and the All-covering Sky-father, the
surpassing beings, with power of changing their forms even as smoke
changes in the wind, were the father and mother of the soul beings.
Then as man and woman spoke these two together. "Behold!" said
Earth-mother, as a great terraced bowl appeared at hand, and within it
water, "This shall be the home of my tiny children. On the rim of each
world-country in which they wander, terraced mountains shall stand,
making in one region many mountains by which one country shall be
known from another."
Then she spat on the water and struck it and stirred it with her fingers.
Foam gathered about the terraced rim, mounting higher and higher.
Then with her warm breath she blew across the terraces. White flecks
of foam broke away and floated over the water. But the cold breath of
Sky-father shattered the