NORWANCHAKUS AND KERIHA
PERSONAGES
After each name is given that of the creature or thing unto which the personage was changed subsequently.
Eltuluma, ——; Hubit, wasp; Kériha, ——; Kuntihlé, a small bird unknown; Lasaswa, large spider; Nodal Mónoko, ——; Norwanchakus, ——; Norwinte, ——; Patkilis, jack rabbit; Pawnit, kangaroo rat; Pom Norwanen Pitchen, daughter of the Southern Border, the same as Norwan; Puriwa, dark; Supchit, ——; Sanihas, daylight; Tsaik, blue jay; Tsiwihl, blue-breasted lizard; Waida Werris, polar star.
THE two brothers Norwanchakus and Keriha were on this earth before any place or thing had a name. When Olelbis took the sky pole and made a deep furrow from the foot of Bohem Puyuk to the lower valley, and a river came, the two brothers were at the end of the furrow and started toward the north. Norwanchakus was the elder; Keriha was very small.
When the brothers started, they could not see well. There was no sun then; there was only a kind of dim twilight. Waida Werris was in the sky, and saw the brothers. Fish had got into all rivers now from the southern pond, where Kuntihle Herit had caught the first fish.
“There are fish in the river,” said Keriha; “let us catch some. Let us take a net up the river and come down with it.”
“We have no net, and there is no light; we cannot see anything,” said the elder brother.
“Go, my brother,” said Keriha, “to where the sky comes down on the northwest; go out under it. You will find there the plant kúruti; bring it.”