{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/ca/dow/dow28.htm","path":"nam/ca/dow/dow28.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/dow/dow28.htm","text":"The Dawn of the World, by C. Hart Merriam, [1910]\nA TALE OF THE OLAMENTKO INDIANS OF BODEGA BAY\nPERSONAGES\nO'-ye the Coyote-man\nCh\u0101'-k\u0101 the Tule-wren, a poor orphan boy\nKoo-loo'-pe the Humming-bird\nCHA'-KA the Tule-wren was a poor worthless boy. He had no father and no mother and went from house to house begging, and the people gave him food to eat. Nobody liked him, and finally they tired of feeding him. One day he told them that if they did not give him food he would shoot out the Sun. Then everybody laughed. Again he said he surely would shoot it out. They said, \"Go ahead and shoot.\"\nSo he did; he sent his arrow right up into the Sun and let the light out and the whole world became dark. There was no Sun, no Moon, no Stars, no Fire-everything was dark. It was dark for years and years and the people could not see to find food, and everybody was starving.\nAll this time O'-ye the Coyote-man was thinking how he could get the Sun and light back again. At length he saw just a little light a long way off. He sent Koo-loo'-pe the Humming-bird to steal it.\nKoo-loo'-pe set out on the long journey and finally came to the fire and stole a little piece and\nbrought it back under his chin--you can see the blaze there to this day.\nWhen he was bringing it somebody chased him, but he was so small and flew so swiftly they could not see which way he went and could not catch him. So he escaped with the fire and brought it back to O'-ye the Coyote-man, and the people had light again.","title":"The Dawn of the World: Part I: Ancient Myths: How Cha'-ka the Tule-wren Shot out the Sun","type":"page"}