American Indian Design & Decoration by Le Roy H. Appleton

Author:Le Roy H. Appleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486135991
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

The blue-corn plant’s great ear sticks up.

Stay down and eat.

The yellow-corn plant’s great ear sticks up.

Stay down and eat.

The black-corn plant’s great ear sticks up.

Stay down and eat.

All-colored corn’s great ear sticks up.

Stay down and eat.

The round-eared corn’s great ear sticks up.

Stay down and eat.

This seemed a strange song to the Pueblo people, and they all wondered what it could mean; but they soon found out what it meant, for they observed that the dancing Navaho was slowly rising from the ground. First his head and then his shoulders appeared above the heads of the crowd; next his chest and waist; but it was not until his whole body had risen above the level of their heads that they began to realize the loss that threatened them. He was rising toward the sky with the great shell of Kintyel, and all the wealth of many pueblos in shell-beads and turquoise on his body. Then they screamed wildly to him and called him by all sorts of dear names—father, brother, son—to come down again, but the more they called the higher he rose. When his feet had risen above them they observed that a streak of white lightning passed under his feet like a rope, and hung from a dark cloud that gathered above. It was the gods that were lifting him; for thus, the legends say, the gods lift mortals to the sky. When the Pueblos found that no persuasions could induce the Navaho to return, some called for ropes that they might seize him and pull him down; but he was soon beyond the reach of their longest rope. Then a shout was raised for arrows that they might shoot him; but before the arrows could come he was lost to sight in the black cloud and was never more seen on earth.

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