rd to her whiteshell home on the
horizon, far out across the wide waters. Arriving there she determined to
make a few more people. Cuticle rubbed from her body, with bits of white
shell, turquoise, abalone, and jet, she placed between two sacred
deerskins, male and female, and called for the Spirit Winds of the east,
the Spirit Winds of the west, Hasche{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti and Haschogan, who came and
breathed upon and tapped the deerskins as once before, and lo! there arose
four pairs of people.

Each pair was given a walking-stick--one of white shell to one, staffs of
turquoise, abalone, and jet respectively to the others. Black Fog and
Black Cloud came and spread out over the water. Upon these the new people
took up their journey eastward to join others like themselves. For four
days they travelled on Fog and Cloud, reaching the earth at the end of the
fourth day, where, on the following day, they were welcomed by Chehonaai,
the Sun. There, too, the Bear, the Wolf, the Great Snake, the Mountain
Lion, the Weasel, and the Porcupine met them at the direction of Yolkai
Estsan, to guard them on their long land journey. The Lightning also she
made, to protect them from above.

They journeyed eastward, stopping to camp and rest at the end of the first
day. For water they had but to prod the earth with their walking-sticks
and a spring gushed forth. The first of the four, the man of White Shell,
stuck his staff into the ground and water came up at once. "The water is
close," he remarked, from which speech he took his name, for the others
henceforth called him To Ahani, Water Is Close. The following night the
Turquoise Woman brought water, but it was bitter, so she said, from which
fact she took her name of To Dichini, Bitter Water. The man who tried for
water on the third night found only a muddy flow, so the others called him
Hashkli{~COMBINING BREVE~}shni, Mud. The fourth night they camped in sight of the Dine{~COMBINING BREVE~}
(Navaho) whom they had come to join. The woman of the fourth pair called
attention to the houses in the caves, after which they called her Ki{~COMBINING BREVE~}nya
Ani, Houses in the Cliffs.(7)

The following day they were welcomed by the twelve who had been created
and given dominion over the land but a short time before, and from these
twenty have the pure-blood Navaho descended.

MIRACLE PERFORMERS

[Illustration: _Naye{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani_ - Navaho]