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#12 --- (continued from Hewett's book) ...In varying forms, the name of the place of emergence appears in other Pueblo languages. The Tewa say that the Keres did not enter this world from the dune lake, but from two caves, "Keres holes," near La Cueva, in Taos County, New Mexico. The cliff in which these caves are situated is about twenty-five feet high. They (the caves) are tunnel-shaped, have a level floor, and are high enough for a man to stand erect in them; the openings are a few feet above the bottom of Oja Caliente creek. The northern cave extends "into the cliff some seventy-five to one hundred feet; its innermost recesses are dark owing to the curvature which the cave makes. Interior surfaces of the chambers are smooth and flesh-colored. From these two caves, the Keres people are said to have come forth when they first emerged into this world."

 

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#13 --- Page 13 of the September, 1978 issue of "THE NEW ATLANTEAN JOURNAL" contains the following legend, which comes from an article in that magazine, titled "The Hidden Secrets of the Southwest", by Tal Levesque, the (former) "Inner-Earth" consultant for that publication:

   "...Further research here may reveal something even more extraordinary. 40 miles NE of Mt. Tayler (in N.M.), is a sacred Cabezon Peak -- Head of the Giant - Ye-Itso... the Navajos claim they killed a giant who lived inside this ancient volcanic core, when he came out and tried to steal their women and food."

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#14 --- The next legend was told by an old Indian man to Grenville Goodwin. Goodwin, an ethnologist, was the author of the book "MYTHS AND TALES