So he went to sleep again and again she whistled; he awoke again and asked:
"Why did you whistle?"
"Oh, I was just playing with the baby."
So the third time he went sound asleep, and she whistled softly, but he did not awake. Then she whistled louder and Elder Brother came out and resumed his natural form. He beat the head of Eagle until it was flat. He cut Eagle's throat and that of his son, sprinkled their blood upon the dead bodies, whereon they all regained their lives. He asked them where they belonged, and on finding where each lived he sent him home. When he came to the last bodies he found that they spoke a different tongue, so he sent them to a distant land, where they practised their peculiar customs. The Pimas suppose that these were the whites, who became white from lying under the others until decayed.[1]
Elder Brother then went home and told the people how to conduct themselves when they had killed an enemy, such, for example, as the Apaches. On his return he found the people singing and dancing. He arranged four periods, and each period contained four days. So to this day the man who kills an Apache must live sixteen days in the woods and subsist upon pinole.
While these events were occurring here the people about Baboquivari wished to have Elder Brother come to them.
At the time when Elder Brother transformed Văntre into an eagle strange things happened to the people of Casa Grande. There is a game called tâkal played by the women. One day the women were playing tâkal, and among them was the daughter of Si’al Tcu’-utak Siʼvany. Suddenly a strange little green lizard dropped in front of her while she was standing among the other women. The earth about the spot became like the green part of the rainbow. They dug there and found some green stones (stcu’-uttŭk hâ’taiʼ), which became very useful for necklaces and ear pendants.
There were people living at some tanks on the east side of the mountains (Ta’-atûkam) north of Picacho, and among them was a man named Tarsnamkam, Meet the Sun. He saw the beautiful stones used at Casa Grande and wished to get some of them; but how was
- ↑ "Mr J.D. Walker, an old resident of the vicinity of Casa Grande, who has been to me personally an excellent friend and valuable informant, told me this tale:
"'The Gila Pimas claim to have been created on the banks of the river. After residing there for some thine a great flood came that destroyed the tribe, with the exception of one man, called Ci-ho. He was of small stature and became the ancestor of the present Pimas. The tribe, beginning to grow in numbers, built the villages now in ruins and also spread to the north bank of the river. But there appeared a monstrous eagle, which, occasionally assuming the shape of an old woman, visited the pueblos and stole women and children, carrying them to his abode in an inaccessible cliff. On one occasion the eagle seized a girl with the intention of making of her his wife. Ci-ho thereupon went to the cliff, but found it impossible to climb. The girl, who was still alive, shouted down to him the way of making the ascent. When the eagle came back Ci-ho slew him with a sword, and thus liberated his people from the scourge.'" A.F. Bandelier, Papers Archeol. Inst., ser. IV, pt. II, 462–463.
