e it was covered with a forest of trees.

Again he flew back to the base of the mountain. Then he called all the
spirit Indians together. Now he is coming to help the living Indians.
He has already passed the sea. He is now on the western edge of the
world of living.

WAZIYA, THE WEATHER SPIRIT

_Teton_

The giant called Waziya knows when there is to be a change of weather.
He is a giant. When he travels, his footprints are large enough for
several Indians to stand in abreast. His strides are very far apart;
at one step he can go over a hill.

When it is cold, people say, "Waziya has returned." They used to pray
to him, but when they found he paid no attention to him, they ceased
to do it.

When warm weather is coming, Waziya wraps himself in a thick robe. But
when cold weather is coming, he wears nothing at all. Waziya, the
giant god of the north, and Itokaga, the god of the south, are ever
battling. Each in turn wins the victory.

KANSAS BLIZZARDS

_Kansa_

When there is a blizzard, the other Kansa beg the members of the
Tcihaci gens to interpose, as they are the Wind People.

They say, "Oh, grandfather, I wish good weather. Please have one of
your children decorated."

Then the youngest son of one of the Wind People, but one half grown,
is selected. He is painted all over with red paint. Then he goes out
into the storm and rolls over and over the snow, reddening it for some
distance. This stops the storm.

[Notes: "KILLED TWO ARIKARA CHIEFS"

(Indian drawing)

_The rank of the chiefs is shown by the white weasel skins attacked to
their costumes. The arrow in the thigh of the horseman indicates that
he was wounded._]

[Illustration: _Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology_]

[Notes: MANY TONGUES, OR LOUD TALKER

_Oddly enough, the name is given as that of the vanquished, not of the
victor, although the balloon of sound would seemingly indicate
otherwise. The pipe between the two indicates that the victor is
entitled to celebrate his victory._]

[Illustration: _Enlarged from a sketch in Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology_]

IKTO AND THE SNOWSTORM

_Teton_

Ikto was the first person in this world. He is more cunning than human
beings. He it was who named all the animals and people. But sometimes
Ikto was tricked by the beings he had created.

One day Ikto was hungry; just then he caught a rabbit. He was about to
roast him.

Suddenly R