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| 79 6. The Sun and the Moon Are Made (second version)1 a long time ago the sun was not lighted, but was dark. There were two men, brothers. The younger said, “You must make the sun lighter in order to see rabbits and kill them.” But the older man said it was light enough. The younger man said, “You do not know how to make the sun a little lighter, so I am going to be the older man.” Then he got a pipe, put some tobacco in it and smoked. He just blew the smoke out and his hair turned gray. When his hair became gray he said, “Now I am the older man.” The younger man said, “I will be the older man. I am going to make the sun a little lighter.” He took a stick and pushed up the sky a little higher so that the sun shone with a bright light. When he was going to make the sun he got a big piece of ice to make a disk. Then he threw it where the sun comes up; then the sun appeared there very bright. The youngest man’s name was Tudja’pa and the other one’s was Hogumata. When they made the sun, they made the stars too. He put water in his mouth and blew it up to make the stars. (That is all of this story.) That is the way he made it light so that people could see rabbits, deer, and antelope; so that people could see to go everywhere they wanted to. People are all happy in the sun’s light. Now in the daylight they go everywhere they want to go. Of the same two men, the older made the moon and tried to make the sun, but he just made the moon. He took a piece of ice to make the moon. The same two men made the people hereabout. They made the various tribes: Havasupai, Mohave, Apache. They just cut arrows, about fifty or one hundred, and threw them where the sun comes up and they were people. When they made the people they made the food for them. They made piñon, corn, beans, and peaches. 80 | part ii| notes | 1. Told by Manakadja; interpreted by West; recorded by E. G., 1921. ...

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