The Dawn of the World: Page Index

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Note

Stories of the First People--People Who Lived Before Real People Were Created

How Wit'-tab-bah the Robin Got His Red Breast

How Ah-ha'-le Stole the Sun For the Valley People

How Ah-ha'-le Stole The Morning

How Tol'-le-loo got the Fire for the Mountain People

Why the Lizard Man did not Restore Dead People to Life

The Coyote and the Lizard

How the People Got Five Fingers; How they Obtained Fire; and How They Broke up into Tribes

The Birth of Wek'-wek and the Creation of Man

Ke'-lok and his Han-na'-boo

The Creation of Man

How they got the Fire

How Kah'-kool the Raven Became a Great Hunter

How Kah'-kah-loo The Ravens Became People

The Bear and the Fawns

The Bear and the Fawns

How the Children of He-le'-jah Became People

The Greed of His'-sik the Skunk

Nek'-na-ka'-tah The Rock Maiden

The Jealousy of Wek'-wek and the Death of Lo'-wut

The Defeat of O-la'-nah the Coyote-Man

How Sah'-te Set The World On Fire

How Cha'-ka the Tule-wren Shot out the Sun

How Wek'-wek Was Saved From the Flood

Why the Bodega Bay Indians can not Stand Cold

Yel'-lo-kin And Oo-wel'-lin, The Man-eating Giants

O-wel'-lin the Rock Giant

Tim-me-la'-le the Thunder

Wek'-wek's Search for his Father

Wek-wek's Search for his Sister

Wek'-wek's Visit to the Underworld People

Tah'-low The Thunder And Tah'-kip' The Lightning

He'-koo-lās The Sun-Woman

How O'-ye The Coyote-Man Discovered His Wife

Bears Resemble People and Like to Dance

How He-le'-jah the Cougar Hunts Deer

The First Teeth go to Soo-wah-tah, the Gopher

Soo-koo'-me The Great Horned Owl

The Meadowlark, a Gossip and Troublemaker

Where the Ducks and Geese go to Breed

Po'-ko-moo The Poison Spider

Ghosts Follow the Pathway of the Wind

Three Birds Scream to Frighten the Ghosts

A Hole in the Nose Saves Turning into a Fish

What Good and Bad Ghosts Turn into

Ghosts Hunt for a Big Animal in the Ocean

Wah-tib'-sah the Sign of Death

Thunder

The Earthquake

The Echo

How Witches Kill People

Ho-hā'-pe the River Mermaid

Che-ha-lum'-che The Rock Giant Of Calaveras County

Loo'-poo-oi'-yes The Rock Giant of Tamalpais

Kā'-lum-me the Rock Giant of Wennok Valley

Scientific Names of the Animals

Scientific Names of the Trees and other Plants

Bibliography of California Mythology