The baby’s head, as she raised him to the surface, was to the east, his feet to the west; underground his head was to the south, and his feet to the north.
“Tsok tso, tsok tso!” (good baby, good baby), said the old woman, fondling him in her arms. She took the buckskin apron from her back, laid it on the ground, put the little boy on it, and wrapped him up carefully. Then she fondled him again, saying, “Tsok tso, tsok tso!” and said, “I am old, I am your grandmother;” and she carried him to her house. She took water and washed him, washed all his body. Every morning she washed him. She could not sleep at night, she was so anxious. She watched him all the time. All night, all day she watched, never put him on the ground, but washed him much, saying,—
“I wish you to grow quickly. You are the only person seen here. I wish you to walk soon.”
In five weeks after she had found him he could walk a little and talk some. When he was able to talk well, the old woman said,—
“Now, my grandson, I will tell you a thing which you must remember. When you play around outside the house, never go to the east, never go toward Saskewil, where Sas lives. Play in the north or the south or the west, but never go east.”
The boy grew fast and was able to play. As his grandmother was telling him always not to go east, he said to himself,—
“I wonder why my grandmother tells me not to go east. I’d like to know why.”
One morning the boy went to play, went south from the house a short distance, and heard a voice, heard some one shouting, calling from some place, he didn’t know where this voice was. He listened, and soon heard it a second time. It came from above, from the sky. He saw no one, but the voice said,—
“Little boy, your name is Tulchuherris. I know you, Tulchuherris. You are the first person in this place, the greatest. You must do what you can to live. You must do your best to conquer. You are Tulchuherris.”
The boy heard and understood. He went home, but said nothing to his grandmother, said nothing of that voice in the sky that had called him.