{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/sw/ain/ain24.htm","path":"nam/sw/ain/ain24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/sw/ain/ain24.htm","text":"The hot arrows of Ee-ee-toy, that withered the crops, remind us of Apollo.\nThe idea often comes up in these stories that a person possessing the powers of a mahkai was hard to kill, having as many lives as a cat. It would also appear that there was a confusion as to what constituted killing, anyway, They perhaps regarded mere unconsciousness as death. Both Ee-ee-toy and Nooee are \"killed,\" but after an interval are alive again. And Whittemore relates: \"An Apache, seeing Louis, the Pima interpreter, came to him in high glee. Taking his hand, he said: 'You are the Pima who killed me years ago.' Louis then recognized him as the man to whom he had dealt a heavy blow with a warclub, and then left him for dead on the battle-field.\"\nIs there any connection between the fact that when Nooee wore a nose-ring of turquoise the earth looked green, and that when he wore a nose-ring of glittering she'll the earth looked dry to him?\nCould this whole story have been a myth of some great drouth?","title":"Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights (Myths and Legends of the Pimas): Stories of the Second Night: Notes on How Nooee Killed Ee-Ee-Toy","type":"page"}