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Show 54 IV. ASDZ^V NAADLEEHI BIDINE'E Its silk, I have planted, Its pollen, I have planted, Its tassel, I have planted, Its dew, I have planted, The tips of its leaves, I have planted, Its roots, I have planted.15 After that he cultivated the farm carefully, and four days later he gathered the first fruits. Water Sprinkler appeared and told him how to cook these vegetable foods. He also showed him how to smoke tobacco and how to pick the corn when the first Lightning appeared. Later, Talking God and Calling God came to visit Younger Brother's farm. Each brought with him a son and a daughter. When their visit was about to end, Talking God's son could not be found. He had fallen ill in the cornfield. Talking God offered to show Younger Brother how to make sacred prayer sticks if Younger Brother would find and cure the boy. Younger Brother found Talking God's son, laid him on the ground, placed four ears of corn around him, and applied cornstalks to the boy. After Younger Brother gave the boy a medicine of corn to drink, the youth recovered. The next day all the crops were harvested with the help of the Yei'ii, who guessed that Turkey was responsible for the bountiful harvest. They asked Younger Brother if this were so. "It is true," he said. "He carries the white corn in his tail feathers and the blue corn about his neck. The yellow corn he hides in the small feathers above the tail and the mixed corn is on his wings. The squash he keeps under his right wing and the melons under his left wing. The tobacco is under his tail. The bean is kept in this little piece of flesh that stands on the top of his beak." The Holy People were much impressed with Younger Brother's pet. The next day the Holy People returned to help with the husking. They built a harvest hogan for Younger Brother, and that night they held a Corn Vigil. They laid four whole stalks of different colored corn, complete with roots and ears, in the center of the hogan. Corn, they said, needs to be fed, just like man. But Corn should not be given human foods, such as corn; instead, it should be fed meat. Likewise, masks should not be fed flesh, but corn. To do otherwise would create cannibals. Indeed, just such a \ |