ABSTRACTS OF MYTHS (continued 2)
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After this the six brothers were sent back to Copper river for a certain copper plate that had been left there, and they went and came in twenty days each way, half the time it had taken the whole band to come out. Then the people all set out for Yakutat, where they were at first received in a hostile manner by the Koskǃēˊdî and ʟǃuqǃoeˊdî living there, until they purchased a creek from them with the copper plate and settled upon it. This was Kâckǃ, from which they obtained their name. By and by the six brothers went hunting, and one of them became so lazy that the others left him for some time. Then a mountain being came to him and helped him to become a great hunter. Finally he sent him home in a canoe which was really a grizzly bear. This bear turned around to be fed when it was hungry, and that is what made the turns in the river. After a time the brothers went up to a glacier at the head of Kâckǃ to hunt, but their canoe was carried away by a swell raised by falling ice. After waiting in vain for succor, they started to cross the glacier, but one of them became dizzy and was carried away by the Wolf people. The others got across and were in a starving condition, when the youngest discovered a mountain sheep with very large horns, that was really “the mother of the bears.” After that they reached home.
By and by the six brothers started south with their brother-in-law. They tried to cross from Kᴀstaxēˊxda-ān to Auk, but were delayed for months by storms. Finally Heavy-wings, their brother-in-law, discovered that this was caused by North Wind, who was in love with his daughter, and he gave her to him. After that Heavy-wings saw and caught the ʟǃêˊnᴀxx̣īˊdᴀq and became wealthy, but because he did not use exactly the right words at that time he was killed by a copper falling upon him and cutting him open. His nephew also saw the ʟǃêˊnᴀxx̣īˊdᴀq, used the right words toward it, and became very wealthy.
106. Origin of a Low-caste Name
Some people found a rock man’s son on some rocks and adopted him, but he got them into so much trouble that they carried him back there. Then the weather, which had been bad, immediately cleared. Since that time a low-caste person has been called a “man of the rocks.”