Coyote returned to the camp and reported to the hunter that he had seen young eagles in a nest. Saying he wished some good feathers for feathering arrows, he asked the other man to lower him from the top of the cliff to the nest. When they had come to the place, Coyote asked the other man to allow himself to be lowered and to throw the feathers down for him. Coyote lowered him, asking if he had come to the young eagles. The reply was, “Not yet.” A little later, the same question was repeated and the answer this time was, “Yes.” Coyote then let the rope fall on the man saying, “Cousin, she who was your wife will be mine.”
The man then sat with the young eagles. He asked what sort of weather prevailed when their father returned. They replied that a “male” rain fell.[[60]] Soon a “male” rain fell and the father of the young eagles flew back in the rain. When he came where the man was sitting with the young eagles, he asked who was there. The man replied that Coyote had lowered him and that he was hovering his children for him. The male bird told him he might remain there and flew off.
The man then asked the young birds in what sort of weather their mother came back. They said she returned when a “female” rain was falling. Soon a “female” rain fell and the eagle's wife returned. She asked the man who he was; he told her that Coyote had lowered him down there and that he was staying with her children. Now she told him he might remain there and departed.
The male bird came back accompanied by a “male” rain. He brought with him a water vessel made of turquoise and bade the man drink. He drank and the water was not exhausted although the vessel of turquoise was very small.[[61]]
Accompanied by a “female” rain the female bird returned and perched nearby. She put down a horn vessel of boiled corn and invited the man to eat it. It was a small vessel, but it was not empty when he had finished his meal.
She flew away again and after four days the eagle people all assembled. They gave him an eagle shirt and instructed him to do as they did. He put on the shirt and flew a little way with it. He put on one shirt after another and flew farther and farther each time, four times. He was a man but he became an eagle.
“Where am I going?” he asked.
“Where the black mirage is located at the center of the sky, I go up.
In the shadow of his dark wings, I come.
“Where the blue mirage is located at the center of the sky, I go up.