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Cahuilla (Agua Caliente or Palm Springs Indian) Creation Myth from Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs IndiansNote: Creation myth as providing
- Explanations for the nature of the world today, e.g., geographic features, animals, diversity in human appearance
- charter for human institutions: laws, customs, proper ways to doing things
- description of time of creation--sacred time-- when deities (animals, celestial beings, primal elements) had human-like characteristics as kindred and spoke to one another
- entertainment
- practical instruction
- moral instruction: how not to behave (Coyote)
- philosophical messages/guidance for understanding the human condition: What do the actions of twin creator god's teach the people about human existence?
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PART ONE: THE CREATION In the beginning there was nothing but nights, and other Indian words call them the two nights—man and woman. They tried to create, to produce a child, but the child was lost before time for its birth. For four times the same happened. Then with a flash of lightning (num yum a wit) came strong twin boys.
The name of the first one was Mo-Cot, and the name of the second was Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit, meaning creator. These were the first people. They were sitting in the air. There was no earth, no water, no light, nothing but darkness; so they could not see each other, but they could hear each other. They did not call each other “brother,” but “my man.”
Now this Mo-Cot, he asked, “What are we going to do, my man ?“
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit answered, “You should know, my man.”
Mo-Cot said, “We must create now.”
Then Mo-Cot created first tobacco. And Mo-Cot-tern-ma-ya-wit invented the pipe and gave it two names: man and woman. This pipe they filled with the tobacco, and not having light of fire or anything of that kind, they drew on the pipe with their mouths, and fire and smoke came into it.
Then Mo-Cot asked Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit, “Which are we going to have the oldest direction ?“
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit answered, “North.”
Mo-Cot said, “I am sitting on the north side, so I am the oldest.” But Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said, “No, I am oldest.”
Now when Mo-Cot blew the smoke of the tobacco first toward the north, then west, then south, Mo-Cot and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya wit were sitting close together in the air, and Mo-Cot, holding the pipe high above his head, said, “The pipe is low, my man.”
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit believed that the pipe was held low, and groped for it. Not finding it he reached up and discovered that his brother Mo-Cot was holding it high.
Then Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit smoked the pipe. He blew the smoke to the north, the west and the south. When he had finished he handed the pipe back to Mo-Cot and said, “I am up, my man.” But Mo-Cot did not believe him, and putting his hand low, he took the pipe.
Together they made a who ya no hut. This is like a bishop’s staff, which is carried in the church today. This they tried to stand up, but it could not stand, because there was nothing for it to stand on. So they put a tem em la wit (bedrock) to steady the who ya no hut, and yet it would not be steady, for it was growing up all of the time.
Now this was the first beginning of the earth. It was the foundation-stone, and is in the middle of the world today. Then they created two kinds of snakes to hold it, but they could not hold it.
They made a big pile of stones and put them around the who-ya-no-hut, and yet it was not steady; so they created great spiders, black ones and white ones (not the spiders of today, but the ones that live in the ends of the world), to weave threads to help hold it steady.
The men climbed up on the who ya no hut to reach the point at the top, and half-way up Mo-Cot.tem-ma-ya-wit saw smoke and steam coming up from below, and he asked Mo-Cot, “What is that, my man ?“
And Mo-Cot answered, “You ought to know, my man. That is what is left from our birth, the sack we were in, and from that will come sickness, disease and death.” So they went on up to the top.
Then Mo-Cot said they were going to make the earth. So they made the earth, but it would not hold together. Then the two kinds of spiders wove their webs among the earth, and caused it to hold together.
The earth first made grew so fast that it ran to the north like water. Then it went west and south and east, but yet it weaved backward and forward and would not stay still, because of nothing holding it.
Then they made two winds—one a whirlwind and one a cyclone, to blow and smooth and level the earth. At the same time they went north to turn up the end of the earth, and they stood up on the end of the earth to help steady it; also the west, the south and the east.
Yet they could not make it stand still, it was so strong. So they created two kinds of ants--un wit em (red ants) and kao wit em (black ants); but not like the ants of today. Then they went all over the earth, but they could not steady it.
So then they made pal no cit, the water ocean. Then they turned up the edges of the earth, so the water could not run over, and the earth became steady, as we see it today.
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit asked Mo-Cot, “How are we going to make no cot em (people) like ourselves?”
Mo-Cot answered, We have made the earth, two kinds: fam av sil (meaning moist earth) and pal lis ma wit (meaning damp earth). Also the u le wit (meaning the white clay and also the black clay, the yellow clay and the red clay). Of this earth which we have made will we make the people.'
Then round and about them came a humming and a singing to soothe them, by the Two Nights their parents. This humming and soothing is around and about us in the night forever, to make sleep in the all the earth's children.
They smoked the tobacco and created Ow il (a dog). they gave him some tobacco also, but the smoke hurt his eyes, and he has never been able to see so well by day as at night since.
Then they created is el (the coyote), meaning 'quick and selfish.' Then they made Moot (the owl), and so soon as he was finished he could see in the dark, and he said 'o--o--0.' The coyote jumped quick and took it and set it aside.
Coyote became very busy, helping with all of the created animals, and though he was one of the older brothers, he always told everyone that he was the youngest brother.
So of this earth they began to fashion people, but because of the darkness Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit began making them too fast. Mo-Cot could not see either, but he could feel, and worked carefully, and he made people in the shape they are today.
Then they stopped making people, and wanted to see what they looked like--they needed light. So they blew with their lips and blew some stars into the sky, but there was so little light from the stars that they could not see well enough; so then they tried to make more light, but could not. They called on all the animals they had created to come and help, and yet there was no more light.
Then Mo-Cot and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit put their mouths together and blew out the sun, but it bobbed uyp and down and all around. They tried to grasp and hold it, so that they could see, but they could not catch it. Then it sank into the earth. Next morning the sun came up from the earth and went back into the night, and all the days afterward.
Then Mo-Cot and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit saw all the people that they had made, and they called them No cot em and Ta ba tem, which mean, “those that have been created.”
Now, after they had looked well at their creations, Mo-Cot said to his brother Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit, “My oldest man, your work is an no com,” which meant that his creation was not good. Which was because some of the faces were double, looking both ways at once, one on the back of the head as well as on the front; and the hands and feet were all webbed, like ducks’; and so Mo-Cot told him.
But Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said it was all right, for in going they could look forward and backward at the same time, without -having to turn around—that there was no use to turn around, it took too much time.
Mo-Cot said, “See, my creations look better with one face, and if anything happens they can turn around and look. Any of mine can lie to sleep three ways, but yours have only one place to lie. And another thing, the hands and feet look very bad with a web across them, that they have no way to split.”
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said his hands were better, because in holding them together they could scoop up with one hand more than Mo-Cot’s could with both. And Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said too that there should be no sickness among them, that there would be no oldest, for if they got old they could go into the water and come out young again.
Mo-Cot said, “There will be sickness come, they will die, and they will get old, and young ones will come, but when sickness comes we will have those among them to cure sickness.”
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said, “There will be no sickness among them. If you do not believe my words, I will go back to where I came from, and take all the creation with me.”
Mo-Cot answered that if there were no sickness or death among the people, the earth, being small, would soon be filled up with too many of them, because of more being raised all the time. And another thing, what are they going to eat?
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said that it would be growing all the time, and that they were going to eat that; that it would sprout up as they were eating it.
And so the first brothers quarrelled, and all brothers have quarrelled ever since.
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said that there should be no sickness or death or he would go down where he came from and take with him all that had been made.
Mo-Cot told him, “You can take along with you all that you have made, but of mine you are not to take it.”
Then Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit was thinking to destroy the world, the earth, the sky, the water, and every thing, by taking it along with him; but Mo-Cot said, “No, you won’t. You take along what you have made, what belongs to you, but not anything that I have made will you take with you.”
Now the earth was smooth and level, and so they quarrelled, and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit went down with all his creations.
Then there came an awful time. The sky blackened, and fire flew, and lightning. The earth rocked and rumbled. Earth quakes split the earth every way: Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit trying to destroy it, and Mc-Cot holding, holding down hard as he could, trying to save and protect it and his creations. Then came some thing worse than all: the smooth land was no more, the earth broke all in pieces, when up rose the mountains, which are here today.
But, try as he could, Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit could not overpower his brother Mo-Cot, who held fast one place and then another, and pushed hard until Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit gave it up.
Now, after every thing had settled and become quiet again, the people could see well, and they saw that they were of different color. For the white clay had made white people, and the black clay had made black people, and the yellow clay had made yellow people, and the red clay had made red people, and each color of people went together.
Then it was that the white-clay people were not pleased about being the only ones without color. They cried to be dark, like the rest. They put different clay on themselves, but it was no good. It came right off after a while.
Then the people called to Mo-Cot that the people were going away. The white people went first, and Mo-Cot said, “Let them go. They are different. They will always be different.”
Then Mo-Cot saw in the daylight that the colored people were fast going from him. He reached quickly behind him and grasped the red people. These were the people that he kept with him. His creation children left him, and so it has been to this day, that the children go on away, instead of staying with the parents. As things were done in the first beginning, so they have done ever since.
The name of the first one was Mo-Cot, and the name of the second was Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit, meaning creator. These were the first people. They were sitting in the air. There was no earth, no water, no light, nothing but darkness; so they could not see each other, but they could hear each other. They did not call each other “brother,” but “my man.”
Now this Mo-Cot, he asked, “What are we going to do, my man ?“
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit answered, “You should know, my man.”
Mo-Cot said, “We must create now.”
Then Mo-Cot created first tobacco. And Mo-Cot-tern-ma-ya-wit invented the pipe and gave it two names: man and woman. This pipe they filled with the tobacco, and not having light of fire or anything of that kind, they drew on the pipe with their mouths, and fire and smoke came into it.
Then Mo-Cot asked Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit, “Which are we going to have the oldest direction ?“
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit answered, “North.”
Mo-Cot said, “I am sitting on the north side, so I am the oldest.” But Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said, “No, I am oldest.”
Now when Mo-Cot blew the smoke of the tobacco first toward the north, then west, then south, Mo-Cot and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya wit were sitting close together in the air, and Mo-Cot, holding the pipe high above his head, said, “The pipe is low, my man.”
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit believed that the pipe was held low, and groped for it. Not finding it he reached up and discovered that his brother Mo-Cot was holding it high.
Then Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit smoked the pipe. He blew the smoke to the north, the west and the south. When he had finished he handed the pipe back to Mo-Cot and said, “I am up, my man.” But Mo-Cot did not believe him, and putting his hand low, he took the pipe.
Together they made a who ya no hut. This is like a bishop’s staff, which is carried in the church today. This they tried to stand up, but it could not stand, because there was nothing for it to stand on. So they put a tem em la wit (bedrock) to steady the who ya no hut, and yet it would not be steady, for it was growing up all of the time.
Now this was the first beginning of the earth. It was the foundation-stone, and is in the middle of the world today. Then they created two kinds of snakes to hold it, but they could not hold it.
They made a big pile of stones and put them around the who-ya-no-hut, and yet it was not steady; so they created great spiders, black ones and white ones (not the spiders of today, but the ones that live in the ends of the world), to weave threads to help hold it steady.
The men climbed up on the who ya no hut to reach the point at the top, and half-way up Mo-Cot.tem-ma-ya-wit saw smoke and steam coming up from below, and he asked Mo-Cot, “What is that, my man ?“
And Mo-Cot answered, “You ought to know, my man. That is what is left from our birth, the sack we were in, and from that will come sickness, disease and death.” So they went on up to the top.
Then Mo-Cot said they were going to make the earth. So they made the earth, but it would not hold together. Then the two kinds of spiders wove their webs among the earth, and caused it to hold together.
The earth first made grew so fast that it ran to the north like water. Then it went west and south and east, but yet it weaved backward and forward and would not stay still, because of nothing holding it.
Then they made two winds—one a whirlwind and one a cyclone, to blow and smooth and level the earth. At the same time they went north to turn up the end of the earth, and they stood up on the end of the earth to help steady it; also the west, the south and the east.
Yet they could not make it stand still, it was so strong. So they created two kinds of ants--un wit em (red ants) and kao wit em (black ants); but not like the ants of today. Then they went all over the earth, but they could not steady it.
So then they made pal no cit, the water ocean. Then they turned up the edges of the earth, so the water could not run over, and the earth became steady, as we see it today.
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit asked Mo-Cot, “How are we going to make no cot em (people) like ourselves?”
Mo-Cot answered, We have made the earth, two kinds: fam av sil (meaning moist earth) and pal lis ma wit (meaning damp earth). Also the u le wit (meaning the white clay and also the black clay, the yellow clay and the red clay). Of this earth which we have made will we make the people.'
Then round and about them came a humming and a singing to soothe them, by the Two Nights their parents. This humming and soothing is around and about us in the night forever, to make sleep in the all the earth's children.
They smoked the tobacco and created Ow il (a dog). they gave him some tobacco also, but the smoke hurt his eyes, and he has never been able to see so well by day as at night since.
Then they created is el (the coyote), meaning 'quick and selfish.' Then they made Moot (the owl), and so soon as he was finished he could see in the dark, and he said 'o--o--0.' The coyote jumped quick and took it and set it aside.
Coyote became very busy, helping with all of the created animals, and though he was one of the older brothers, he always told everyone that he was the youngest brother.
So of this earth they began to fashion people, but because of the darkness Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit began making them too fast. Mo-Cot could not see either, but he could feel, and worked carefully, and he made people in the shape they are today.
Then they stopped making people, and wanted to see what they looked like--they needed light. So they blew with their lips and blew some stars into the sky, but there was so little light from the stars that they could not see well enough; so then they tried to make more light, but could not. They called on all the animals they had created to come and help, and yet there was no more light.
Then Mo-Cot and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit put their mouths together and blew out the sun, but it bobbed uyp and down and all around. They tried to grasp and hold it, so that they could see, but they could not catch it. Then it sank into the earth. Next morning the sun came up from the earth and went back into the night, and all the days afterward.
Then Mo-Cot and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit saw all the people that they had made, and they called them No cot em and Ta ba tem, which mean, “those that have been created.”
Now, after they had looked well at their creations, Mo-Cot said to his brother Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit, “My oldest man, your work is an no com,” which meant that his creation was not good. Which was because some of the faces were double, looking both ways at once, one on the back of the head as well as on the front; and the hands and feet were all webbed, like ducks’; and so Mo-Cot told him.
But Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said it was all right, for in going they could look forward and backward at the same time, without -having to turn around—that there was no use to turn around, it took too much time.
Mo-Cot said, “See, my creations look better with one face, and if anything happens they can turn around and look. Any of mine can lie to sleep three ways, but yours have only one place to lie. And another thing, the hands and feet look very bad with a web across them, that they have no way to split.”
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said his hands were better, because in holding them together they could scoop up with one hand more than Mo-Cot’s could with both. And Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said too that there should be no sickness among them, that there would be no oldest, for if they got old they could go into the water and come out young again.
Mo-Cot said, “There will be sickness come, they will die, and they will get old, and young ones will come, but when sickness comes we will have those among them to cure sickness.”
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said, “There will be no sickness among them. If you do not believe my words, I will go back to where I came from, and take all the creation with me.”
Mo-Cot answered that if there were no sickness or death among the people, the earth, being small, would soon be filled up with too many of them, because of more being raised all the time. And another thing, what are they going to eat?
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said that it would be growing all the time, and that they were going to eat that; that it would sprout up as they were eating it.
And so the first brothers quarrelled, and all brothers have quarrelled ever since.
Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit said that there should be no sickness or death or he would go down where he came from and take with him all that had been made.
Mo-Cot told him, “You can take along with you all that you have made, but of mine you are not to take it.”
Then Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit was thinking to destroy the world, the earth, the sky, the water, and every thing, by taking it along with him; but Mo-Cot said, “No, you won’t. You take along what you have made, what belongs to you, but not anything that I have made will you take with you.”
Now the earth was smooth and level, and so they quarrelled, and Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit went down with all his creations.
Then there came an awful time. The sky blackened, and fire flew, and lightning. The earth rocked and rumbled. Earth quakes split the earth every way: Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit trying to destroy it, and Mc-Cot holding, holding down hard as he could, trying to save and protect it and his creations. Then came some thing worse than all: the smooth land was no more, the earth broke all in pieces, when up rose the mountains, which are here today.
But, try as he could, Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit could not overpower his brother Mo-Cot, who held fast one place and then another, and pushed hard until Mo-Cot-tem-ma-ya-wit gave it up.
Now, after every thing had settled and become quiet again, the people could see well, and they saw that they were of different color. For the white clay had made white people, and the black clay had made black people, and the yellow clay had made yellow people, and the red clay had made red people, and each color of people went together.
Then it was that the white-clay people were not pleased about being the only ones without color. They cried to be dark, like the rest. They put different clay on themselves, but it was no good. It came right off after a while.
Then the people called to Mo-Cot that the people were going away. The white people went first, and Mo-Cot said, “Let them go. They are different. They will always be different.”
Then Mo-Cot saw in the daylight that the colored people were fast going from him. He reached quickly behind him and grasped the red people. These were the people that he kept with him. His creation children left him, and so it has been to this day, that the children go on away, instead of staying with the parents. As things were done in the first beginning, so they have done ever since.
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THE MOON MAIDEN
Now Man el the moon maiden was el ka men el, a very fine young growing young woman, el ka he wit a very beautiful, intelligent young woman, such as all Indian girls have hoped to be, and she was teaching no cot em (the people, but especially the girls).
She took the young people to a place of water, and taught them to dance and run and jump and wrestle and play games; different for the boys, and different for the girls. She taught them songs and foot-racing; taught the girls and women to rise and bathe in the pool before the men got up. Then, just as the sun came up, she taught them to shake out their hair backward and forward, to thoroughly untangle it, and then as the sun shone on it, it would never turn grey, nor get blossoms (split ends) at the ends. She taught them how to laugh and play and be merry.
Now this is a song that she taught them, all about the funny faces of the animals: the coyote, who was the youngest of them all, was the most teased of them all, so they sang the song about his long nose and his long tail, and the color of his eyes and his hide; and about the wild-cat the same way: all about his short nose and his short tail, and his bright eyes.
The coyote represents a tribe of people of his name, and the wild-cat represents a tribe of people of his name; and she taught them that coyote must never marry with coyote, or wild-cat must never marry with wild-cat. [Coyote and Wild Cat 'moieties' among the Cahuilla]
Wolf and bear and birds and the Siou were all brothers to the wild-cat and coyote. Wolf, coyote, bear and wild turkey were all on one side, with wild-cat, lion, fox and crow on the other, and one side must not marry with each another, but the other side.[Clans or kindreds with totemic affiliations, eg. 'wolf']
This was what the moon was teaching them, because if they should marry with their own side, the children would not be good, the people of their own side would be against them, then songs (laws) would be against them, too. [incest taboos]
When the moon was teaching the no cot em (people) by the water, they saw a female spirit, and in the night time the spirit saw the moon, too, but she did not know about it, and the people did not know what was going to happen either.
Now when the moon came home, bringing the young people, all laughing and dancing, they stepped all over a huge rattle-snake that liked to curl himself up in the doorway in the sun. They danced on his head and on his nose, and the snake felt very badly, badly treated.
At this time Mo-Cot was lying in his house, and he saw them running over the snake, and as the snake was harmless and could not defend itself, Mo-Cot was sorry for it. So, as they went away next morning, he got up and put two cactus thorns in the snake’s mouth; if they stepped on him again, some one would be stung. When they came back in the evening the snake was watching to sting any one who stepped on him. They came as usual, walking all over him, and he bit one, but there was no harm done at all.
The next day Mo-Cot got mesquite thorns and put them in the snake’s mouth and said, “Try it with this.” The snake was ready for them when they came home in the evening. He bit the first one that walked on him, but it was just the same as before— no harm done at all.
Mo-Cot said the next morning that he was going to try again, “and if it comes out right, you can run under the rocks or into a hole (how y at) or brush.” Mo-Cot took two hairs from his beard and put them into the mouth of the snake. Now, when the young people came, happy and dancing, they did it again, just the same as before.
The first one that danced on the snake, he bit. Then he started to run under the rocks. They chased him to kill him, but he ran too fast, and the one that was bitten died.
To va vish niks chum al mi ik was the name of the one that died (meaning, a bright shining light). He was always the first to come running and laughing and dancing on the snake. No cot em (the people) they knew what Mo-Cot had done. Often at night they saw a spirit, and heard acorns and cane rattling, but they did not know what it meant.
One night Mo-Cot caused a deep sleep to come upon no cot em. Then he made trouble to the moon maiden, because she had no one to protect her. Next morning she told some of the people what had happened to her, and they decided that they were not satisfied to have this Mo-Cot stay any longer among their brothers and sisters.
When the moon maiden went back to the pool, the place of dancing, she was not happy like herself. She was pale and sick, and thinking that she did not want to stay at that place any more. Her brothers and sisters were asking what was the matter. She did not tell them anything, but she made a song, and then every body understood what had happened to her.
After that she became quite happy again, and all the people were glad, but they did not know what was going to happen. That night she caused them to sleep deep. They did not see or hear anything, and that night she went up into the sky.
Next morning, all her brothers and sisters could not find her anywhere. There was no track of which way she went. They looked everywhere, but they could not find her. They went to coyote, the youngest brother, and said, “You have done good things for all of us, and now you had better go all around the world and look for our sister.”
So he did. He went all over the world, but he could not find a trace of where she went.
Then one evening they saw her in the pool, looking up and laughing at them. She was in the sky, in the West, but they were seeing her in the water. They were so happy to see her again, they all yelled, “Here is our sister in the water,” and they all came and begged her to come out. But she would not come out.
They called coyote. “Our brother, you better come and drink this water, and let our sister come out.”
Coyote began to drink the water. He could not drink it all, it was too much, but he made it much lower. And yet the moon laughed and did not come up from the pool. Then they looked up and saw her in the sky. This was the first time of the new moon.
When the moon was among the people she had taught them to bathe, and ever after when they saw the first quarter of the new moon, they plunged into the water of the pool.
They were sad and lonely when they came home, for they missed their sister and teacher who was away up in the sky. They went to bed early, to forget. In the morning they went back to the pool of water where she had been teaching them, but they were feeling no better, for they missed their sister.
She took the young people to a place of water, and taught them to dance and run and jump and wrestle and play games; different for the boys, and different for the girls. She taught them songs and foot-racing; taught the girls and women to rise and bathe in the pool before the men got up. Then, just as the sun came up, she taught them to shake out their hair backward and forward, to thoroughly untangle it, and then as the sun shone on it, it would never turn grey, nor get blossoms (split ends) at the ends. She taught them how to laugh and play and be merry.
Now this is a song that she taught them, all about the funny faces of the animals: the coyote, who was the youngest of them all, was the most teased of them all, so they sang the song about his long nose and his long tail, and the color of his eyes and his hide; and about the wild-cat the same way: all about his short nose and his short tail, and his bright eyes.
The coyote represents a tribe of people of his name, and the wild-cat represents a tribe of people of his name; and she taught them that coyote must never marry with coyote, or wild-cat must never marry with wild-cat. [Coyote and Wild Cat 'moieties' among the Cahuilla]
Wolf and bear and birds and the Siou were all brothers to the wild-cat and coyote. Wolf, coyote, bear and wild turkey were all on one side, with wild-cat, lion, fox and crow on the other, and one side must not marry with each another, but the other side.[Clans or kindreds with totemic affiliations, eg. 'wolf']
This was what the moon was teaching them, because if they should marry with their own side, the children would not be good, the people of their own side would be against them, then songs (laws) would be against them, too. [incest taboos]
When the moon was teaching the no cot em (people) by the water, they saw a female spirit, and in the night time the spirit saw the moon, too, but she did not know about it, and the people did not know what was going to happen either.
Now when the moon came home, bringing the young people, all laughing and dancing, they stepped all over a huge rattle-snake that liked to curl himself up in the doorway in the sun. They danced on his head and on his nose, and the snake felt very badly, badly treated.
At this time Mo-Cot was lying in his house, and he saw them running over the snake, and as the snake was harmless and could not defend itself, Mo-Cot was sorry for it. So, as they went away next morning, he got up and put two cactus thorns in the snake’s mouth; if they stepped on him again, some one would be stung. When they came back in the evening the snake was watching to sting any one who stepped on him. They came as usual, walking all over him, and he bit one, but there was no harm done at all.
The next day Mo-Cot got mesquite thorns and put them in the snake’s mouth and said, “Try it with this.” The snake was ready for them when they came home in the evening. He bit the first one that walked on him, but it was just the same as before— no harm done at all.
Mo-Cot said the next morning that he was going to try again, “and if it comes out right, you can run under the rocks or into a hole (how y at) or brush.” Mo-Cot took two hairs from his beard and put them into the mouth of the snake. Now, when the young people came, happy and dancing, they did it again, just the same as before.
The first one that danced on the snake, he bit. Then he started to run under the rocks. They chased him to kill him, but he ran too fast, and the one that was bitten died.
To va vish niks chum al mi ik was the name of the one that died (meaning, a bright shining light). He was always the first to come running and laughing and dancing on the snake. No cot em (the people) they knew what Mo-Cot had done. Often at night they saw a spirit, and heard acorns and cane rattling, but they did not know what it meant.
One night Mo-Cot caused a deep sleep to come upon no cot em. Then he made trouble to the moon maiden, because she had no one to protect her. Next morning she told some of the people what had happened to her, and they decided that they were not satisfied to have this Mo-Cot stay any longer among their brothers and sisters.
When the moon maiden went back to the pool, the place of dancing, she was not happy like herself. She was pale and sick, and thinking that she did not want to stay at that place any more. Her brothers and sisters were asking what was the matter. She did not tell them anything, but she made a song, and then every body understood what had happened to her.
After that she became quite happy again, and all the people were glad, but they did not know what was going to happen. That night she caused them to sleep deep. They did not see or hear anything, and that night she went up into the sky.
Next morning, all her brothers and sisters could not find her anywhere. There was no track of which way she went. They looked everywhere, but they could not find her. They went to coyote, the youngest brother, and said, “You have done good things for all of us, and now you had better go all around the world and look for our sister.”
So he did. He went all over the world, but he could not find a trace of where she went.
Then one evening they saw her in the pool, looking up and laughing at them. She was in the sky, in the West, but they were seeing her in the water. They were so happy to see her again, they all yelled, “Here is our sister in the water,” and they all came and begged her to come out. But she would not come out.
They called coyote. “Our brother, you better come and drink this water, and let our sister come out.”
Coyote began to drink the water. He could not drink it all, it was too much, but he made it much lower. And yet the moon laughed and did not come up from the pool. Then they looked up and saw her in the sky. This was the first time of the new moon.
When the moon was among the people she had taught them to bathe, and ever after when they saw the first quarter of the new moon, they plunged into the water of the pool.
They were sad and lonely when they came home, for they missed their sister and teacher who was away up in the sky. They went to bed early, to forget. In the morning they went back to the pool of water where she had been teaching them, but they were feeling no better, for they missed their sister.
BEGINNING OF WAR AND DEATH OF MO-COT THE CREATOR
After the moon had gone away, Mo-Cot began teaching the people. He taught them to shoot rocks from split sticks toward each other, by snapping the stones from the sticks. Then he made the pa hal, a cane, to grow. This is what he made the arrow sticks from. It was cut while somewhat green, then they dried it. Some dried crooked, and then they took a certain dark stone and cut straight grooves in it.
This stone is called in Indian Ya na pish. It was used for straightening the arrow sticks. It was heated red hot; they wet the arrow with saliva from the mouth; then, by twisting and turning and pulling the arrow through the slots, it became perfectly straight.
This that they made became known as arrows, Hoo yel; the plain stick, Hoo 1 —the stick and point altogether complete. The Hoo l was used for war, to kill by being poisoned; the Hoo yet was not poisoned, but used to kill for food.
When the arrow was finished, Mo-Cot made the arrowhead, or point. It was made in his lungs, and came out of his mouth. When he was making the arrowheads they were heard rattling in his lungs—this in Indian is called S i vat.
There were all kinds of arrow heads—white, red, pink, blue, black, yellow, all kinds of colors and shades, hundreds of them. They were heated in the fire red hot, to make the shapes. There were two shapes, one for food and one for war. The one used for food could be pulled out, but the one used for war could not be pulled out, or had to go through, or be taken out.
When this was all finished, the arrowheads were fastened on the arrow sticks.
Mo-Cot called for is baw al (redwood) to make the bows. It is strong and hard to split, it is very strong and shoots the arrow a long way.
Now that everything was complete, Mo-Cot began teaching ... [The narrative continues with a how Mo-cot, having become a danger to the people, is poisened by his own creations, ending sacred time. Mo-Cot gives extensive instruction on mortuary ceremonialism as his final teachings to the people before he expires.]
This stone is called in Indian Ya na pish. It was used for straightening the arrow sticks. It was heated red hot; they wet the arrow with saliva from the mouth; then, by twisting and turning and pulling the arrow through the slots, it became perfectly straight.
This that they made became known as arrows, Hoo yel; the plain stick, Hoo 1 —the stick and point altogether complete. The Hoo l was used for war, to kill by being poisoned; the Hoo yet was not poisoned, but used to kill for food.
When the arrow was finished, Mo-Cot made the arrowhead, or point. It was made in his lungs, and came out of his mouth. When he was making the arrowheads they were heard rattling in his lungs—this in Indian is called S i vat.
There were all kinds of arrow heads—white, red, pink, blue, black, yellow, all kinds of colors and shades, hundreds of them. They were heated in the fire red hot, to make the shapes. There were two shapes, one for food and one for war. The one used for food could be pulled out, but the one used for war could not be pulled out, or had to go through, or be taken out.
When this was all finished, the arrowheads were fastened on the arrow sticks.
Mo-Cot called for is baw al (redwood) to make the bows. It is strong and hard to split, it is very strong and shoots the arrow a long way.
Now that everything was complete, Mo-Cot began teaching ... [The narrative continues with a how Mo-cot, having become a danger to the people, is poisened by his own creations, ending sacred time. Mo-Cot gives extensive instruction on mortuary ceremonialism as his final teachings to the people before he expires.]