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Show WITH THE HOLY PEOPLE 43 The Twins' Earth-Surface Adventures From Water Way (Toji), Excess Way (Azilniiji), and Navajo Wind Way (Dine Binilch 'iji) After he had repaid Coyote for his trickery, Younger Brother set out to find his Elder Brother. Because of the knowledge he had gained among the birds, Younger Brother soon became an excellent bird trapper. He always used down to line his sleeping place. Eventually he wandered to Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil), where a new ceremony was being held. The people laughed at him and called him "Hogan of Down Man" (Atsos Bee Hoghani). Down seemed to cling to everything about him. "Make fun," Younger Brother said, but tomorrow I will go to Aztec. There I will take for my wives two beautiful virgins who have never been touched by Sunlight (Doo Bik'i'diidladii)." At this everyone laughed even harder. No matter how beautiful such girls were known to be, taking one for a wife, let alone two, was an impossible task. Nevertheless the next morning Younger Brother left the medicine hogan and went to the top of Mount Taylor. There he dressed himself in the plumage of Woodpecker (Tsin yilkalii). On his way down the mountain, he took the forms of many different kinds of birds. In the form of a Rock Wren, he flew to the house of the girls in Aztec and sat on their windowsill. As they looked up from weaving to admire him, he changed into a beautiful butterfly (k'alogii). Then he enchanted them by changing from a black and yellow butterfly into a black and white one. Then he became a yellow and red one. As they were standing in awe, he flew over their heads and sprinkled many different pollens, which cast a spell on them. Then he changed to an entirely red butterfly and flew out the window. Entranced by the colors and the pollen, the girls followed him out to a cornfield. There they found him in his human form as Younger Brother. Together the three started back toward his camp. The people of the Pueblo, who were angry at him for what he had done, set out after them. Younger Brother then escaped with the two girls to the Sky World. The Lightning People (Ii'ni'Dine'e) taught him ceremonies and gave him the name Lightning Boy (li'ni ashkii), but he and the girls soon grew homesick. So the three went back to his camp. But the girls soon complained about his camp, too, saying that they did not like the food of birds or the down, which |