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When all were quiet and at rest, he began to speak

"Hu-ah Hu-ah Letto She-Who-Creates In those days, we called ourselves The-Ones-Who-Have-Understanding Our people became alive in the place known as Gold-Is-Everywhere We were the children of the Fourth Sun, which was born after the waters flooded the world and destroyed the Third Sun In that place known as Gold-Is-Everywhere, we built cities and gave offerings to the gods But He-Who-Burns becary with our people He sent forth his sons and they burned the cities with their fire After this, there was no peace a the tribes

"Thirteen of the clans built ships and sailed boldly west over the great water The hted Here they found oats and the pale ones who looked like people but acted like dogs

"‘This is not a good country,’ said The-One-Who-Counts The council listened to her words, and they left that place

"After , the thirteen clans came to the middle sea Here, also, the pale ones lived, but these pale ones acted like people, not beasts The council met, and The-One-Who-Counts said to them: ‘This is a better country’

"They made a harbor there and built cities in the place known after that as Abundance-Is-Ours-If-The-Gods-Do-Not-Change-Their-Minds Into this land the clans settled and otten, and in this way rain fell at the proper time and sun shone at the proper time There were many children In this land, the people called themselves The-Ones-Who-Have-Made-A-New-Home

"Some of the pale ones, who called themselves humankind, came as friends to our people Others came from the south, who had skin as black as charcoal, and so huether with our people and painted the clan marks on their bodies In this way, they became part of the clans, and their blood and our blood -wo of the stars At the end of every four Long Years, which marks a Great Year, they ascended the Hill of the Star and watched to see if the Six-Women-Who-Live-Upriver would pass the zenith In this way, the counting-women would know that the movements of the heavens had not ceased and that the world would not come to an end

"Hu-ah Hu-ah Let She-Who-Creates be pleased as an in the year of 1-Mountain In the season of Dry Light, the people saw a strange wonder A colureat wound, it bled fire onto the earth, drop by drop The people cried out all together in wonder and in dread, and as was the custoainst their -wo-woreat cataclys of the Fifth Sun, under which the whole world would suffer That year, there were ods

"In the year of 12-Sky, fire ran like a river through the sky at daybreak It split into three parts and the three parts became wind One part of wind rose up to the Hill of the Stars and smashed the House of Authority The other two parts lashed the waters of the Lake of Gold until the waters boiled Half of the houses of the city fell into the boiling waves Then the waters sank back to their rightful place

"In the year of 9-Sky, a ind of dust rose from the earth until it touched the sky Out of the ind ca woman, and she cried, ‘We are lost! Let us flee the city’ After that, the sky inhaled the ind, but the crying woman was left behind, and she would often be heard in the le-Seat sent out the , but everywhere they went their hureeted them with stones and spears, violence and battle Thehumankind, but they were killed

"The shana-ret’zeri were on the move, and they had allied with the huht and taken into our ons turned against us The long enmity between our peoples could not be healed At this ti-wos Thirteen times had the full count of Great Years run to co Count had coer, for at the end of each Long Count, the gods gained the power to destroy the sun

"It came to pass that on the two hundredth day of 1-Sky, two of the fisherfolk captured a heron in the waters of the lake The bird was so e that none of them could describe it, so they took it to The-One-Who-Sits-In-The-Eagle-Seat She had gone already to the Hall of Night to celebrate the evening banquet