She
wrapped it carefully in cotton cloth and went to sleep with it in her
arms. In the morning, the mother, wondering at her daughter's absence,
sent a second daughter to call her. Upon entering the room where the
girl had gone to sleep she was found with a great serpent coiled round
and round her body. The parents were summoned, and they said, "This is
some god, my daughter; you must take him back to his waters," and the
maiden followed the serpent to the hot spring, sprinkling him all the
while with sacred meal. Upon reaching the spring the serpent
entered it, the maiden following, and she became the wife of the
K[=o]-l[=o]-oo-w[)i]t-si.
The K[=o]-l[=o]-oo-w[)i]t-si soon appeared with the two Soot-[=i]ke
who had been dispatched for him. They did not travel upon the earth,
but by the underground waters that pass from the spring to the spirit
lake. Upon the arrival of the K[=o]-l[=o]-oo-w[)i]t-si, the Kaek-l[=o]
issued to this assemblage his commands, for he is the great father
of the K[=o]k-k[=o]. Those who were to go to the North, West, South,
East, to the Heavens, and to the Earth to procure cereals for the
[=A]h-shi-wi he designated as the Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya. Previous to
this time the [=A]h-shi-wi had subsisted on seeds of a grass. "When
the seeds are gathered," he said, addressing the serpent, "you will
carry them with water to the [=A]h-shi-wi and tell them what to
do with the seeds. I will go in advance and prepare them for your
coming.
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