Note 8 — III. NYOHAIVA

This insect, of which Nyohaiva is so to speak the impersonation, is described as being red-spotted and as coming out of the ground when this is dry. Hence no doubt the allusion to Nyohaiva's place of birth being the first to become dry. The Mohave call yanaθa-kwe-'atāye a "spider," but it spins no web. The element -ataye means many, atai-k; yanaθa-, the narrator suggested, was from δanuθa, tears, alluding to the spotted appearance of the animal.