{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/nav/nmps/nmps07.htm","path":"nam/nav/nmps/nmps07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/nav/nmps/nmps07.htm","text":"B\u00e9kots\u00efdi and Sun Bearer (Ts\u00ednihanoai) made all the animals while they were sitting together in the same room,-- B\u00e9kots\u00efdi in the north, Ts\u00ednihanoai in the south. While the former was making a horse, the latter was making an antelope, and this is why the antelope is so much like a horse. It has a mane and no small back toes as the deer has.\nBoth of the gods sang while they were at work, and this was the song that B\u00e9kots\u00efdi sang to bless all that he was making. It was the first song which he sang at this work.\n1. Now B\u00e9kots\u00efdi, that am I. For them I make.\n 2. Now child of Day Bearer am I. For them I make.\n 3. Now Day Bearer's beam of blue. For them I make.\n 4. Shines on my feet and your feet too. For them I make.\n 5. Horses of all kinds now increase. For them I make.\n 6. At my finger's tips and yours. For them I make.\n 7. Beasts of all kinds now increase. For them I make.\n S. The bluebirds now increase. For them I make.\n 9. Soft goods of all kinds now increase. For them I make.\n 10. Now with the pollen they increase. For them I make.\n 11. Increasing now, they will last forever. For them I make.\n 12. In old age wandering on the trail of beauty. For them I make.\n 13. To form them fair, for them I labor. For them I make.\nAfter he had made the animals, he sang another song the refrain of which is \"Kat hadz\u00eddila`, now they are made.\" As the animals began to breed, he sang another song appropriate to this, and when they were multiplying abundantly, he sang a fourth song, the burden of which was Kean\u00e1dildz\u00efsi, which means, they are multiplying.\nWhile Day Bearer was making the horse and domestic sheep, B\u00e9kots\u00efdi was making antelope and bighorn. While Day Bearer was making a goat, B\u00e9kots\u00efdi was making a cow. While the former was making a deer, the latter was making an elk. Then Day Bearer began to make a mule and Bekotsidi began to make a donkey, and the former said: \"I shall stop with this; I shall make no more.\" But B\u00e9kots\u00efdi said, \"I shall continue my work.\" Then he made the jack-rabbit, the small rabbit, the prairie-dog, the wood-rat, and many more animals. 25\nNo pictures were drawn of Bekotsidi and no one masquerades in his form. His appearance is not known. 26\nFour songs and no more belong to this tale. If you want a fine horse, sing the second and third songs, say a prayer, and you will get the horse. In your prayer specify the color and kind of a horse you desire., It will come to you from the house of Day Bearer.\nThe name B\u00e9kots\u00efdi signifies \"He tries to catch it.\" He got his name while he was out hunting. An indecent story is told to account for this.\nThe first iron-gray horse was made of turquoise, the first red (sorrel) horse of red stone (carnelian ?), the first black horse of cannel coal, the first white horse of white shell, and the first piebald horse of haliotis shell. So horses are now, according to their color, called after the different substances of which the first horses were made, Thus the Navahoes speak of dol\u00ef'zi lin. (turquoise or gray horse), b\u00e1sts\u00efli lin (red stone or sorrel hors e), b\u00e1sz\u00efni lin (cannel coal or black horse), yolka\u00ed lin (haliotis or spotted horse).\nThe hoofs of the first horse were made of tse`had\u00e1honige, or mirage stone, a stone on which paints are ground. Such stones\nare added to earth from six sacred mountains to form their most potent medicine. A shaman will not treat a diseased horse without this. It is used, too, when they pray for increase of stock and increase of wealth.\nE'ya a\u00edya \u00e9ya a\u00edya ai eena\nE'ya a\u00edya \u00e9ya a\u00edya ai Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n | | | | | For them I make.\n1. Kat B\u00e9kots\u00efdi kat si n\u00efsl\u00edn Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Now | B\u00e9kots\u00efdi | now | I | am. | For them I make.\n2. Kat Ts\u00ednihanoai big\u00e9 kat si n\u00efslin'go Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Now | Day Bearer | his son | now | I | am. | For them I make.\n3. Kat Ts\u00ednihanoai bitl\u00f3l(el) dol\u00ef'zigo Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Now | Day Bearer | his beams | blue. | For them I make.\n4. S\u00efk\u00e9 lat\u00e1 kat nik\u00e9 n\u00edti Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n My feet | ends of | now | | your feet run into. | For them I make.\n5. Lin altasa\u00ed kat la nad\u00efldz\u00ef'si Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Horses | of all kinds | now | | are increasing. | For them I make.\n6. S\u00efla lat\u00e1 kat n\u00efl\u00e1 n\u00edti Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n My hands | ends of | now | your hands | run into. | For them I make.\n7. D\u00edni altasa\u00ed kat la nad\u00efldz\u00ef'si Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Animals | of all kinds | now | | are increasing. | For them I make.\n8. Kat ay\u00e1s dol\u00ef'zi kat la nad\u00efldz\u00ef'si Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Now | birds | blue | now | | are increasing. | For them I make.\n9. Y\u00fadi altasa\u00ed kat la nad\u00efldz\u00ef'si Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Soft goods | of all kinds | now | | are increasing. | For them I make.\n10. Kat b\u00eftad\u00eftd\u00edn b\u00efl la nad\u00efldz\u00ef'si Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Now | its pollen | with | | are increasing. | For them I make.\n11. K\u00e9a` nad\u00efldz\u00ef'si kat d\u00f3ni`d\u00efn\u00ebs Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n More and more | are increasing | now | they will last forever. | For them I make.\n12. Kat s\u00e1an naga\u00ed kat bike hoz\u00f3ni. Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n Now | in old age | wandering | now | its trail | beautiful. | For them I make.\n13. Tent\u00edngo\u00a027 la` baan\u00efsl\u00e9 Bahatsid\u00efl\u00e9s\n To make them well | | for them I do it. | For them I make.\nREFRAIN.\nBaanasl\u00e9si en an etc.\n For them I make. | | \n59:25 Hat\u00e1li Natl\u00f3i does not know in what order these small animals were made, and does not know if Bekotsidi made snakes and fish.\n59:26 Hat\u00e1li Natl\u00f3i does not know where he lives; but thinks he dwells either in the sky or in Ests\u00e1natlehi's house in the western ocean.\n60:27 The author was uncertain about this word. An informant has suggested dantingo, \"several paths.\"","title":"The Story of Bekotsidi.","type":"page"}