“Then Sas put his hand in his bosom and took out a kolchi bisi [sky cap], gave it to me, and said, ‘Take this to Norwanchakus, and tell him to give it to Tsiwihl for his trouble.’ Sas gave me also a piece of the sky. ‘This is for Tsiwihl, too,’ said he; ‘let him wear it on his breast for a blue facing.’”
Norwanchakus gave these to Tsiwihl, and then made him a blanket of oak leaves. He wears all these things to this day.
“My cousin, are you sure that Sas said this?” asked Norwanchakus.
“I am sure. Sas told me all this.”
“Wait now, my cousin.” Norwanchakus went northeast, stretched his hand out; an armful of kúruti (silkweed which grows at the end of the world) came on it. “Now, my cousin,” said he, “I will pay you well for your trouble. All your life you can make as much rope as you like of this kúruti, and you can go up on it anywhere,—north, south, east, or west.”
Norwanchakus started at midnight, and went westward quickly. He knew the way well. He crossed ridges and valleys, passed places where he had found tracks of Keriha and lost them, went to the bridge of one hair, sprang from the bank to the middle of the bridge. The bridge swayed and swayed. Underneath was a wide, rushing river, but Norwanchakus did not fall. With one spring more he touched the other bank, ran swiftly till he reached the big village beyond the sky. He saw the chief house, ran in through its door at the east, went to the little room, and found Keriha with his head on the palm of the Supchit woman’s hand. He caught his brother and rushed out, shot past all the people, and stopped only when he was far outside the village.
“Now, my brother,” said he, “you told me always that you knew something great, that you wanted to do something great, that you wanted to be something great. What have you been doing here thirty years? I have looked for you everywhere. You never let me know where you were.”
“Oh, my brother,” said Keriha, “I am so drowsy, I was sleeping, I didn’t know where I was.”
Norwanchakus crossed the river at a bound, without touching the bridge of one hair. He went on then, never stopped till he reached Keri Buli.
Next morning at daybreak Keriha heard a voice from above. The voice said,—