Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE OLD SOUTHWEST By Various Compiled and Edited by Katharine Berry Judson Author of "Myths and Legends of Alaska", "Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest", and "Montana." Illustrated Second Edition Preface In the beginning of the New-making, the ancient fathers lived successively in four caves in the Four fold-containing-earth. The first was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time; the second, dark as the night in the stormy season; the third, like a valley in starlight; the fourth, with a light like the dawning. Then they came up in the night-shine into the World of Knowing and Seeing. So runs the Zuni myth, and it typifies well the men…

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