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                                                                    myth 10
        24. Now Marumda walked around all over
the earth. He walks around: "Here will be a mountain, 
here will be rocks, thre will be clover, here will 
be a valley, there will be a lake, there will be crops, 
here will be a playground, there will be crops, here 
will be a clover flat, there will be a grain valley,
on this mountain there will be acorns, on that one
manzanita, juniper, cherries; on this mountain there
will be potatoes, deer, [[?]] hare, rabbits; on that
mountain there will be bear, puma, cougar, fisher, coon,
wolf, coyote, fox, skunk; on this mountain there will be
rattlesnake, king-snake, gopher-snake, red-striped snake,
mountain garter-snake, blue snake, big gopher-snake."
        25. [Marumda then] walked over the hill; on the
other side it was dark; he sat down; there was no light.
He went on. Up in the sky there was light. Then he rolled
the earth over, it turned over, he pushed it over: "This
is the way you will perform," said the Marumda, "now it is
dark, and now it is light, and now it is sunlight. [Thus]
now it performed