Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-03-10

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exasp>rated BY the want Of Christiani-
~, as exhibit2-l too often IN the lives
OF those -, 20 teach NJ the frontier.
Among the cold snow-touehed sum-
rns.s Of the san Juan mountains. where
the peaks spread their white wells for
ever - the sky, there lies with up
TUNED eve . lake. bounded by precip-
itous walls Al the center 81 this lake
there i an island with hole in H. II
1. an extinct crater Something has
been left by the stone carving ages
sticking up. slant height perpendicular
Ike the top Of n ladder, out Of this hole.
Tho superstitious <avajos never APP
proach near 20 IL. bat stand on high
SUBMITS all around IL and view from
sfar their natal waters, and reverently
chant their songs on solemn birthdays
a. the spo, through which their ances-
tors emerged from out the fourth
world
The myth that lies below this huge
rock hole II this.
On the fifth day after they came %
this world the sua arose. climbed 10 the
zrrrith and stopped The day grew
hot. They ionged for the night 10
come. but the sun moved not Then
the wise coyote ssid: The sun stops
because no has not been paid for his
work; no demar Is human life for
every day that be labors: he will not
move again till somebody dies" At
length n woman. the wife Of great
chief. ceased 70 breathe aud grew cold.
aud. while they all drew around in
wonder. the sun was observed u move
again, and he travelled down the sky.
and went behind the mountains. And
now ne never stops and we know that
every day some one must die.
They laid the dead body 20 rrst among
the rocks and all wondered where the
living part had gone; and they searched
every whittier, but found her not, Till
one. drawer than all the rest, ventured
10 look down into the hole through
which she had fed frpN the lower
world. There he saw her seated by the
side Of the river. combing her hair
Seeing that a shadow was thrown from
above she looked mp. saw the Indian
pceping through the hole and invited
- tDAttC tttft IL tst itt At%&ftt4 ~ w
so Then she said 20 him: ''Hithcr
have come and hishcr all our people
mus, come when they die" He re-
turned and told wha, he had seen and
heard. Soon he fell sick
That night the moon stopped In the
zenith as the sun had done during the
DAY The wise coyote told the people
that tho moon also demanded pay and
would not move until il was given. lie
hal scarcely spoken when the man who
had seen the departed woman ia the
neither world died. Then the moon
with satisfied smile moved 20 the
west Thus il il that some one must
ne every night or the moon would not
move across the sky. And because ne
who Qazet upon the death met death s.
coon after. il is not well 90 look upon
the body after II has been buried. aud
80 with strange mortal dread no Savato
has ever dared to look down into the
hole through which they caEne 10 This
rurid
Thus spoke Ie-len-cha. the old singer
~ Navajo songs and teller Of stories
This old indian Is Upward If one hun
t,ed year, % as~. bat he -till remcfn-
berE all the unwritsen lore Of has legend
AIRY rae.
The Indian mythology has 40 grca;
first canse Ihrv begin their eosmo1urv
with AT already existing world In the
dim twilight - time anil - on with 4.
- th~ th9ther shorr ~ time Z<-ola'rv
= ~ the bottom q IL all n climbs up
into anthro nnorphic forms aud person.
frs - goss in living. breathing
prophets ia she religious dances AL
thr creatures In ne ar-, world arr able
- 81 awaF on wings from The rising
waters - the foot. IN tho third and
fourth world they se-k pros..ction Ia
ihe h.,Iin~ q great rel which grows
higher ~ fast as ~ rising hood nd
vznces ADD hears she fngifiv4s upward
ard o.t = danger Arrived GA this.
th~ 8fth e~ovid men multiplied. races
farrred and vars arose. Trib.s Do
voa-rd ehch other over and over arain
Then esrDe thr Tr-st hero 81 Sazeu.
e7esui And KILLED the dernors Af,er
IBIS ~ true mortal fniian came npon
the esrsh
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