“His arms looked like wings, for plumed prayer-sticks were fastened to them in the Butterfly’s lodge.
“The young man was no longer tired. He was strong again, and like a white butterfly in beauty. Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water. He slept in the house of the Butterfly.
“In the morning the young Navajo stepped on the white sand. The wife of the Butterfly put two burning lines of white lightning before his feet. He stepped upon these, and his white moccasins fastened to the lightning.
“ ‘Now,’ said the Butterfly, ‘the lightning is yours; follow where it leads.’
“With one step he stood on a high hill. He saw a flash of lightning fill the valley.
“ ‘It is the trail I must follow,’ said the young Navajo. Across the valley, on the trail of the lightning, he ran to the mountains; and now, pure in face, in heart, and with white feet, the lightning led him home.”
Adapted from Powell’s Report. [[72]]
HOW THE CAVE PEOPLE FOUND DRY LAND ON THE EARTH
(Zuñi Chant)