Note 4 — STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS

Before this,4 whenever many shamans were gathered together, they made fun of him. Afterward, he had his nephews sink him in the ocean. They went out to let him down. And they let him down. They tied a rope to him, and they floated above him for a long space of time. They were right over the deep place waiting for him to jerk the rope. By and by, when he jerked the rope, they pulled him up. At this time he saw the bottom of the Tlingits’ island. He was under water there for many nights. He saw of the shamans’ houses, the one that lay deepest. At this time he came to have more shamanistic power.