. Bulletin. Ethnology. O'Bbyan] the dine: origin myths of the NAVAHO INDIANS 121 (Today, their descendants are the people who can dance with snakes, the people who hold the Snake Ceremony.) Then, while some of the people moved from the top of the Black Mountain ^^ and the countiy near there, others moved farther south and they built on the top of locky mesas where the Hopi Villages are today. There is where they made their homes. Sandoval's grandmother, who was a Hopi Indian, told him that the pictograph of the coil (fig. 18) was the symbol of the Winds.^^ She. Figure 18.—The Great Coil above
. Bulletin. Ethnology. O'Bbyan] the dine: origin myths of the NAVAHO INDIANS 121 (Today, their descendants are the people who can dance with snakes, the people who hold the Snake Ceremony.) Then, while some of the people moved from the top of the Black Mountain ^^ and the countiy near there, others moved farther south and they built on the top of locky mesas where the Hopi Villages are today. There is where they made their homes. Sandoval's grandmother, who was a Hopi Indian, told him that the pictograph of the coil (fig. 18) was the symbol of the Winds.^^ She. Figure 18.—The Great Coil above the Square Tower House Ruin, Mesa Verde. took him to the different places and showed him how the people had carved the coil in the rock so that people would always remember this story and never make the mistake again. THE STORY OF THE MOUNTAIN CHANT AND THE FIRE, DANCE *^ There was once a young man captured by a people whose descend- ants are the Utes. The peoples were at war and the people of the North carried the young man to their country. They crossed a big body of water. There many gathered and they held a dance. They planned to kill the young man, but Hasjelti and Hasjohon had not forgotten him. They followed their captured grandson. Now the Northern Indians had tied the young man inside a tepee. He was sitting there when the two Holy Beings appeared to him. They told him not to be frightened, that he would not be harmed. They made known to him that they wanted gifts. If he made these gifts to them he would be saved. They wanted moccasins trimmed with porcupine quills, leggings and shirts of buckskin, fringed, and a headdress with 12 eagle feathers. Hasjelti wanted these. Hasjohon wanted the same clothing, all decorated and fringed, but he wanted " Interpreter's note: A low mountain range beyond Kayante near Chin Lee. •" Informant's note: The great First Wind is the cyclone. He who travels around, but not the whirlwind. He is very great. The great coll above
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