Hupa texts / by Pliny Earle Goddard.

  • Pliny Earle Goddard
Date:
1904
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Credit: Hupa texts / by Pliny Earle Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they saw coming along with his face half covered with blood. He ran back to his master.* It was at the edge of the world toward the south that they had the fight. When Yimantuwinyai looked back the way he had come he was surprised to see smoke. When anything is about to come into existence its smoke appears. Indians were to appear. He started back toward the north. When he got down to Leldin he found the KIxunai preparing for a journey. They were going to the world across the ocean northward. He traveled with them down this way toward Hupa. At Tcoxol- tcwedin they camped. In the morning they started out in boats and went across the ocean to the north. Yimantuwinyai went back with them. Then he thought, How is it going to be with the Indians who are to appear?” I am going around the world,” he thought, and measure it. They will renew their youth.”t He started around the world to measure it. When he got to the place west of us on the other side. The Maiyotel began to talk about him. He must not do this thing he is attempting,” they said. I wish someway we could stop him. It is women that he can’t resist,” said the Maiyotel. As Yimantuwinyai was walking along he saw a woman lying in the trail waiting for him. He stepped over her and walked on. Soon he saw a second woman. With her he dallied. She caught him and swam back with him through the water north to the world beyond the ocean. Through his own weakness and the plots of his enemies he failed to arrange for Indians to renew their lives upon earth. He came back here again to a place south of the Big Lagoon. There he placed a sweat-house and a house in which the people should dance. Here,” he said, they will dance if anything goes wrong with the ocean. If the water rises up they will dance here and it will settle down again.” Then he went back to the northern world beyond the ocean. He thought again about the coming of men. In that place they will come into existence before my eyes,” he thought. I *Compare Dixon, Maidu Myths, pp. 84-5. tif the world proved large, people might be rejuvenated several times without overcrowding it.
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