[84.] Goddard, Pliny Earle. Gotal—a Mescalero Apache Ceremony, Putnam Anniversary Volume, pp. 385-394. This is the fifty-third song, sung at sunrise on the last morning of the ceremony.
[85.] Matthews, Washington. The Mountain Chant, p. 463. Bur. of Amer. Eth. Washington. 1887.
[86.] Matthews, Washington. Navaho Myths, Prayers, and Songs, pp. 27-28. University of California Publications, vol. V, no. 2. Beauty is synonymous with happiness in the Navaho songs.
[87.] Fletcher, Alice C. The Hako, p. 323.
[88.] Ibid., p. 324.
[89.] Ibid., pp. 322-323.
[91.] Ibid., p. 330.
[92.] Leland, Charles G. The Algonquin Legends of New England, p. 379.
[93.] Barbeau, C. M. Huron and Wyandot Mythology, pp. 318-321. Dept. of Mines. Geological Survey, Ottawa, Canada. 1915.
This song-sequence begins with the death of Mah-oh-rah. Seeking to bring her back from the spirit world, her father rides in pursuit across the sky. The Grandmother, guardian deity of the Wyandots, transforms the flying group into stars, Dehn-dek’s three stags becoming the stars in the Belt of Orion.