Native American Legends: Stories Of The Hopi Indians Vol One by G.W. Mullins

Author:G.W. Mullins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Light Of The Moon Publishing

HOW THE ANTELOPE MAIDEN WAS RECONCILED

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Told by Tawiima (Mishongnovi)

Aliksai! At Zuni the people were living, and the two sons of the village chief were racing with each other. At a place called Aamusha some one dangerous (nukpana), lived. A path led by this place, and as the two brothers were racing they came to this bluff and when they were close by they heard some one call, “Come here. There is something beautiful here, come and see it. Oh, no, there is nothing there,” the boys said. “Yes, come and see, there is something beautiful here,” the voice replied. So they approached closer, and they saw on the top of the bluff a beautiful maiden. It was an Antelope Maiden. She at once drew up the elder brother by a long, deep inhalation. She then said to the younger brother: “Even if you bring your beads here, the most valuable possession of the Zunis, I shall not give you back your brother, as I do not want your beads.”

Hereupon the younger brother ran home. “Why do you come alone?” his father said. “Yes,” he said, “when we were racing there a beautiful maiden called us and then drew my brother up with her breath, on top of the bluff.”Oh!” the father said, “Yes, some one dangerous lives there.” The father then told his son to go and hunt up the Pookonghoyas and ask their assistance. He cut a round piece from the middle of a buckskin and made a ball which he tied to a stick; also an arrow, to which he fastened blue-bird and parrot feathers, and finally gave his boy some tobacco and then sent him (on his errand. Going south, he all at once heard some one calling, and saw Pookonghoya and his brother, both being very small, wandering and playing around there. He went first to the house where Spider Woman (So Wuhti), the grandmother of the two brothers lived. She called to the latter and said, “Stop, and come here, some one has come,” but they at first did not listen; so she called again. They then came into the kiva and the messenger, handing them the presents, said to them, “This I have brought for you. Way over there lives a pretty maiden who drew my brother up to her, and now my father has made these things and told me to bring them to you in order to see what you thought about it and could do for us.” They told him to go westward to the Mole, his uncle. They said he would come to a hollow place where a ladder was protruding, there the Mole lived, and he should see what the Mole thought about it.

So the young man went to the house of the Mole, who told him to go northward to his uncle. So he proceeded northward and came to a little opening in the ground from which there came a breeze. “This must be the place,” the young man said, and thereupon a great strong wind came out of the opening.

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