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     “She lived alone in her sweat-house, which was called Norwan Buli Hlut, remained in the house and danced during daylight. 

    “Olelbis looked down at this woman and said,--

     "’This is my sister, who has come up before the new people on earth. I don't know what she will do yet.’

     “When Olelbis was building his sweat-house in Olelpanti, he cut a piece from a white-oak tree, and this piece rolled down outside the sky to the lower world, where it became a people in Nor Puiken, in the southeast, and that people were those before the present Wintus came out of the ground at Tsarau-Heril."

 

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The following appears on pages 151-152 of Hartley Burr Alexander's book, "THE WORLD'S RIM":

 

     "The origin of the Sun Dance, in Cheyenne mythology, is ascribed to a certain medicine man, known from his buffalo headdress as ‘Erect Horns’, who in a time of famine finds his way into the interior of a mountain, the Medicine Lodge of the Manitos, where from the gods themselves he learns the rites which will restore the buffalo and other game so that the people may have food. This release of the animals from a great cavern in order that the food supply may be replenished is a repeated theme of Indian myth, and it is obvious that it is seasonal in intent, the cavern being the hollow hill of Winter whence the Sun hero releases the spring-renewed animal life as (for example, in the Pueblo legends of Montezuma) he returns from the South and mounts to his zenith, leaving his blessings with mankind..."

 

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The following comes from page 58 of "NAVAJO CREATION MYTH", by Hasteen Klah: