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Show 48 IV. ASDZiV NAADLEEHI BIDINE'E each other. They completed the restoration at his heart. Gila Monster then called on Thunder. With a crash of Lightning, he restored movement to the body. While the Small Deer People prepared a stretcher, the Winds rushed through Elder Brother's body, restoring movement to its interior. Some of the Spider and Weaver People helped with the stretcher, while others knitted together the pieces of Elder Brother's body. Finally, the Small Deer People presented the completed stretcher to Gila Monster. He carefully placed Elder Brother on it and said a long pollen prayer over him. Elder Brother returned home on the stretcher, but his recovery was incomplete. All agreed that another ceremony was needed. They asked Gila Monster if he would sing over Elder Brother again. Gila Monster said that all the Holy People should come for a Dark Circle of Flints or Flint Way ceremony. They all assembled. Then they painted Elder Brother with red clay and marked his chin with charcoal. Gila Monster ordered a circle-spiraling dance to bring back Elder Brother's life force to the present world. He concluded by telling all present that Abalone Woman and Horned Chief had power over the medicines of Flint Way. Then he announced that Elder Brother was completely restored. He also warned Elder Brother that Thunder still planned to harm him. But when the People saw the Cranes walking unharmed on the circle of flints, they knew Elder Brother would be safe, for they knew the Cranes had power over Water and Thunder. Shortly after Elder Brother resumed his adventures, a severe thunderstorm threatened him. But this time, when the Lightning struck, it did not shatter him. Instead it carried him to a lake in the sky home of the Thunders. Elder Brother saw the sandpainting of the Home of the Thunders open up. It uncovered a deep hole guarded by Zigzag and Straight Lightning and by Sunray and Rainbow. At the bottom sat White Thunder. "The fact is," White Thunder told Elder Brother, "you have disobeyed again. You have been sent here for further instruction." But White Thunder's People soon lost interest in Elder Brother, for Dark Thunder was coming toward the place where they were seated, and he was ready for war. It seems that Behwochidii had gathered together his Dark Thunders of Summer and armed them with arrows and shields. He hoped to free Elder Brother from White Thunder. At the |