Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-10

drew an arrcu from his bait and sbos |
khs youuz man thfo1Rh the heart; and |
xs be feb face d0znvard on tbs sand, . !
raven rose upward and winged it, way
ever the oesas 70 the spirits home N /
sas sky.
Tben the shamin Of the otter said:
She 10 q witch; By the torture Of nrs
she nust die
And then they rushed 20 the lodge Of |
YsnsI and seized the queen and bound
hsE and dragged her to the pyre. She
did not resist them. bat Vas as one IN
dream, whose so1l Is With their friends
in the land Of the hereafter 50 s0me
cried, az they locked upon her:
Do not harm the daughter Of the
sFiTits.r
As thew stood undecided, the sun sank
behind the mountain and the children
Of earth SAG the stars for the FIRST time.
As they ga1sd in UondeFneDt on the
spar king lights that gemmed the sky.
the spirit Of fear chilled their hearts.
and they thought they would see she sun
no more.
Then the shaIEiA Of the otter said:
IF the witch queen lives. We viii
never see the sun again. She IL the evil
one of earth. First she removed the
great Iehal from orr village, and now
ne wAnders thro1Rh the seadoEy land
Of spirits alone and signs for slave to
bear kim coDpany. Now shall We not
s1rp the erael witch that killed our
chief and made the sun to mourn 30
mzeh that ne mas hidden his face be-
hind the mountain, SO that the children
Of men may not behold his grief!'
And then the q1een said;
Al q fknsanS from rrrfofa md
let me stand and speak as becomes q
queen, and not bound with thongs as q
wild creature of the mountain
Then the shsmin uniooaed her and
she stood up in their midst. A mist
yelled her beautiful eyes and her voice
trembled a. she spoke TO them these
words.
"Frora my home in the stars, among
the spirits beautiful aRd good, | was
sent TO earth BY my father, the spirit OF
light, TO be tae queen of men and t.
keep and guard them from the spirits
of evil, the spirits of darkness and the
spirits Of pestlience. He told ne Of the
herbs 30 DO found on the moantain that
voald cure the suffering and OF the
charms that would keep the evil spirits
away; AID vhea had lived to be the
queen of tbs greatest nation on the
earth, and when the sun sank in dark
ness behind the mountain, thai he and
ali my kindred spirits would come and
bring all the glories OF the land Of the
hereafter TO light me home" 4
When she ceased speaking a deep ST.
lence fell upon all: the stiffness was that
Of death, bai at last tue shamiu cried:
"Shs is witch; she must die toe fiery
death! The great fehal from the here
after calls for bis slave. Let her burn,
and then the sun, released from Der
charms, will come out of the cave where
she has hidden him by her Witehoraft.
She is not the daughter of the spirit of
light, bat Of the spirit Of darkness"
Then they seized the queen and bouad
her, aud laid her on the pyie, and the
flames lit mp the darkness. and the sha
min gave a cry Of triumph. A strange
light comes over the faca of tie stars
and spreads over the sky. Il assms that
all the flowers Of earth we're blooming
in the sky, and that all the TINS of the
dawn aud the eunset and the rainbow
are flashing and alsnciRg through the
air Ia wreaths of color and glory, but
they see Eiothine, for their eyes are fixed
upon the queen, whose limbs have been
released from their bonds by the flames,
and in that fierce fire she stands and,
With q look of heaven on her face,
Smiles upon the cruel mortais tEat have
caused her all the Suffering that pain
can give.
There comes = rashing sound over
head, and two great white eagles come
sweeping down through the rosy sky,
and with one watt Of their wings the
fire Is swept into the SEA. Then one of
them takes the queen In its beak and
places her at the side of the dead sha-
min; the other seizes the shamin of the
otter in its claws and flies upward. A
rear OF thunder shakes the earth; the
mountain KliDquan opens and huge
flames stream skyward; then the eagle
burls the ehamin down into the iefy
depths, and then darts downward and
alighis beside the queen.
Then the eagles change into men and
the people see the face OF Yehal once
more, and that the other is the spirit of
light. All CRY out Yehaii Yehalr' but
Yehal answered not Q word. A frown
resEs upon the face Of the spirit, and
be speaks 10 them In q voice like the
rumbling of thunder, which re echoed
over the world when tae mountain open
cd b receive the wirksd shamin:
aCruel, ungratefai ones Of earthl
When ! sent the kiusiest and fairest Of
all my children to rule over you and 10
guard you from the powers Of the spirits
Of darkness, and to shield you from the
wiies Of the spirit Of evil and his slave
pestilenee, ard after she had done this
for 50 many years faithfully and well,
though longing to be with her kindred
spirits, she kept your welfare In her
heart and fingered here. thought you
would be grateful for the gift Of the
spirit queen, the daughter OF hght, and
when the spirit Of the great shamtn the
raven came and Told ct the great wrong
You had done him, and Of the cruel tor
lures you had inflicted upon her, I and
all the other spirits Of air came and
brought the lights Of heaven 70 light
ner home. Nov l leave you 70 the pow
es Of darkness and evil, and whsa they
have punished you, then shall you ace
the spirit queen once na0re."
Then Yehai stopped and lifted the
dead shamin 10 his arms, and the spirit
of light breathed Hpoa him and he lived
once more. Borne upward By some IN
seen power, she four then vanished 10
the glorious light that covered the shy,
and the last the people saw vas tue
sweet face of their spirit queen, looking
doun upon then with look Of forgive
ness and pity. Then the bright colors
faded from the sky and dark clond
settled like pail over the earth; wind
came roaring down from the mountain
and rain fell in torrents
For many moons did the storm con-
ainue, and the waters rose and covered
the face Of the earth. and the spirit Of
frost came from his ice cavern Ia the
north and bfoaght toe bitter wiud and
the binding snow With him. The pee
pie made RATS with the great cedar logs
aud went drifting on the bosom Of the
hood. Huneer and pestilencs abode !
with them, aud In the bitterness Of their |
hearta they oarssd the spirit OF evil and |
the false shamin thai had caused them
all this soFrow.
Az lAss there we're bui few left living, |
and they were scattered far and seAr On |
the wide world Of ocean, and longed for |
death, as comfort aud jog uere not IN |
the world, and no one hoped 10 see the |
san agAin. Than she rosy liQht ores |
more covered the SKY, and the spirit |
queen came hoAtinx on Q cioad Of /
brightness. and the kindly smile of old |
vas On her face, and her voice vas - l
swees ~ the day when they first found 1
her on the beach AZ Kiinonan. and she !