They started in the night, and early the next morning they came to a swimming place on top of a high mountain. Djáudjau got some green twigs, rubbed himself all over with them, then he rubbed the twigs on the ground, and said: “I have been to see my bad brother-in-law; I have brought away some of his bad thoughts. Now, earth, take them all.” Then he swam in the pond and talked to the mountain. The mountain talked to him like a living person, and he forgot his brother-in-law.
When they got home, the five Wûlkûtska brothers were there. They all claimed the child.
Old woman Djáudjau said: “It isn’t right for you to take my daughter-in-law’s child away from her.”
The young woman said: “You didn’t care for me. You thought you were better than I was, because you could travel on trees and I had to travel on the ground. Now you want my baby. Hereafter you will travel slow, and it will make you sweat; you will no longer be persons.”
The brothers said: “Hereafter you and your husband and his kin will be Djáudjaus and roam around in the mountains.”
And so it was. [[284]]
KÓWAM AND GÁHGA
CHARACTERS
| Gáhga | Heron |
| Kówam | Red-billed Duck |
| Lok | Bear |