They made the Sun of fire with a rainbow around it, and put the Turquoise man into it as spirit. They put the Fall and the Winter in the West and North, and the Spring and Summer in the South and East; the month of October was claimed by Coyote, it is half summer and half winter and called the changing month.

Then all the spirits went to the places where they belonged, and they raised Sun and Moon, Stars and Winds. The Fire God placed the North Star, and other first Gods placed other constellations, the women placing the Milky Way and other stars. Coyote chose two fighting stars and Anteres in the South. They put the forty-eight cyclones under the edges of the world in the four directions to hold it up, and sent other winds to hold up the sky and stars.

Begochiddy then took the Ethkay-nah-ashi: the mysterious transmitters of life; and motioned to all creation and it came to life and moved at different speeds.

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--HASTEEN KLAH

[Photograph:  Pictographs at Standing Cow Ruin, Canyon del Muerto]