were twenty-one dances, four figures in each dance, and each time the
dancers appeared they were sprinkled with meal by the invalid, while
Hasjelti and Hostjoghon performed their antics with fawn skin and wands.
The third series embraced all the dances exactly like the above. The
fourth series embraced nineteen dances. The only variation in this was
that the leaders were often more clownish in their performances, and upon
several occasions only four men representing women appeared. In this case
two men danced together. Some of the dancers dropped out from weariness,
which caused diminution in some of the sets. The last dance closed at the
first light of day. The song-priest had preceded the last dancers to the
green room and awaited their arrival to obtain the masks, which were his
special property.

MYTHS OF THE NAVAJO.

CREATION OF THE SUN.

The first three worlds were neither good nor healthful. They moved all the
time and made the people dizzy. Upon ascending into this world the Navajo
found only darkness and they said "We must have light."

In the Ute Mountain lived two women, Ahsonnutli, the turquoise
hermaphrodite, and Yolaikaiason, the white-shell woman. These two women
were sent for by the Navajo, who told them they wished light. The Navajo
had already partially separated light into its several colors. Next to the
floor was white indicating dawn, upon the white blue was spread for
morning, and on the blue yellow for sunset, and next was black
representing night. They had prayed long and continuously over these, but
their prayers had availed nothing. The two women on arriving told the
people to have patience and their prayers would eventually be answered.

Night had a familiar, who was always at his ear. This person said, "Send
for the youth at the great falls." Night sent as his messenger a shooting
star. The youth soon appeared and said, "Ahsonnutli, the ahstjeohltoi
(hermaphrodite), has white beads in her right breast and turquoise in her
left. We will tell her to lay them on darkness and see what she can do
with her prayers." This she did.(6) The youth from the great falls said to
Ahsonnutli, "You have carried the white-shell beads and turquoise a long
time; you should know what to say." Then with a crystal dipped in pollen
she marked eyes and mouth on the turquoise and on the white-shell beads,
and forming a circle around these with the crystal she produced a slight
light from the white-