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Show CHANGING WOMAN'S PEOPLE 51 stands you in position, when he causes you to walk, when he slows you down? . . . Now dark medicine, when this he eats, living medicine, when this he eats . . . Now long life, happiness, when this he eats, getting up is to be, getting up is to be, halagai. . . .13 This restored the dead Buffalo, who turned out to be Buffalo Woman. Because of Elder Brother's favor, she promised, the Buffalo would always return. He stayed with the Buffalo People for some time. As they were about to cross Wide River into their homeland, however, Little Wind warned him not to stay with them. If he did, he would always have to keep the buffalo form he then wore. So Elder Brother started back toward his home. While he was on the way to Black Mountain, Talking God appeared and restored his human form. Then Elder Brother went to the canyon where Talking God lived, returned the prayer plume he had been given for protection, and headed home. Younger Brother's Adventures beneath the Waters From Male Shooting Way (Na'atbii Biky'ji) and Feather Way (Atsos) While Elder Brother had been away among the Thunders and the Buffalo People, Younger Brother had stayed at home. Each day he would go to the edge of the river, where he had burned down a cottonwood tree. There he worked to hollow out the tree so that he could lie within it. On the thirteenth day, the day when he saw his Elder Brother taken into the sky by the Thunders, Younger Brother did not return home in the evening. Four days later, Talking God came and took Younger Brother to the river. He was placed in the log, and then Monster Slayer, Born For Water, Shooting Yei'ii, and Water Sprinkler prayed over him. Two Calling Gods, two Mountain Sheep Yei'ii (Gh^'ask'idii) and two Fringe Mouth Yei'ii (Dzahodoolzhahii) were to guide him on a journey. Then he set out to float down the river. The first obstacle he encountered was a dam, where he was required to make an offering before he could pass. Then a number of Water Creatures held up the log until offerings had been made and Talking God and Water Sprinkler pleaded for him. Once the hollow log stuck in the rocks at the brink of a waterfall. The Thunders were called for help, and they freed the |