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He was very thirsty. He heard someone laugh here below. He jumped up to
him. The person said to him, "You have been taking care of the children.
Drink this," and gave him a piece of ice about so large (forefinger).
"This will not be enough to satisfy me," he thought. He drank it and was
satisfied. He lay down beside the little eagles.
The father of the eagles came home. "DagônadeL, you are staying with my
children. I thank you," he said. Then he opened the house and they went
in. (His house was behind the solid rock.) He gave him some food in a very
small clay dish. "That is not enough for me," he thought. The man took off
his coat and hung it on the wall. Then he was like any other man. He gave
his coat to the man. "Run around with my children for me," he said. He
flew across to a stone standing on the other side and back again. He flew
way off and came back. He was strong.
The man who lived there called and from the center of the sky a large
number of them came down. Some of them wished to carry him on their
interwoven wings while some of them wished him to fly and others did not
want him to. They put wings on him that were stretched out long and
started out with him, up into the sky. The eagles flew under him carrying
him up. When he was near the sky hole he began to fall he was so tired.
The others got under him carrying him up. Then Panther let down his tail
through the sky hole. The man seized it and he was pulled up. Panther had
his home there.
They had enemies there with whom they fought. The hornets were their
enemies. Some of them were black, some of them were yellow. The yellow
ones had yellow houses; the black ones had black houses. Panther had much
buckskin from which he made him shirts of many thicknesses. There were
holes just for the eyes. The man went with the eagles to find the enemy.
They camped close by them. He was carrying a quirt in his hand. Early the
next morning when they went after wood they met the enemy and began to
fight with them. The hornets were killing them. The man put on the shirt
Panther had made for him and began whipping around with the quirt. He
strung the bodies of those he had killed on a stick. He had two sticks of
them. The eagles came back to their home. One of them said, "DagônadeL was
killed first of all." Panther said, "My grandchild is very brave. Watch
for the men he has killed." When he came back there from fighting the
enemy, they commenced dancing around in a circle. Meadowlark danced around
sunwise. "You had better go down, you say bad words against the people,"
they told him.
Added July,
2007
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