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The Search for the Corn Maidens
The people in their trouble called the two Master-Priests and said: "Who, now, think ye, should journey to seek our precious Maidens? Bethink ye! Who amongst the Beings is even as ye are, strong of will and good of eyes?"
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- Category: Zuni
The Search for the Middle & the Hardening of the World
- Origin: Zuni
As it was with the first men and creatures, so it was with the world. It was young and unripe. Earthquakes shook the world and rent it. Demons and monsters of the underworld fled forth.
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The Warrior Suitor of Moki
We take up a story. Of the times of the ancients, a story. Listen, ye young ones and youths, and from what I say draw inference.
For behold!
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The Youth and His Eagle
- Origin: Zuni
In forgotten times, in the days of our ancients, at the Middle Place, or what is now Shíwina (Zuñi), there lived a youth who was well grown, or perfect in manhood. He had a pet Eagle which he kept in a cage down on the roof of the first terrace of the house of his family.
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Creation and Longevity
Coyote began the creation of the earth, but Eagle completed it. Coyote scratched it up with his paws out of nothingness, but Eagle complained there were no mountains for him to perch on.
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- Category: Achomawi
The Underground Panthers
A hunter was in the woods one day in winter when suddenly he saw a panther coming toward him and at once prepared to defend himself.
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The Two Old Men
Two old men went hunting. One had an eye drawn down and was called Uk-kwûnägi'ta, "Eye-drawn-down."
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The Two Mohawks
In the year 1747 a couple of the Mohawk Indians came against the lower towns of the Cheerake, and cunningly ambuscaded them through most part of the spring and summer.
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The Spirit Defenders Of Nikwasi'
Long ago a powerful unknown tribe invaded the country from the southeast, killing people and destroying settlements wherever they went.
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