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Shatata and Tata were always saved in the flood and fire. Once Marumda destroyed all the people he created and something wrong and he destroyed them. He saw that the people he made first in bird form obeyed his orders and he gave them the power to judge, and he called all the birds to speak the language that they would be almost as birds. That is  why they say that once the blue jay did this and that and the coyote did this and that, and at that time people did not die. Then he destroyed them by fire and then after that he created more and gave these two people only power to change their forms, and the birds were the people and occupied the world, that was the time when the Tata was the first man and the dragon killed him. First he was killed and afterwards cremated. But he was recreated again and the lark-man- was a particular fellow and he did not like the scent of it and of course he removed it. He destroyed this generation but always kept the Shatata and Tata. 
The Indians thought the spirit of the dead goes to some other country and that it becomes in the name form, and after they die they think they will meet the one who has died before and always it in the cry songs.
After he had destroyed them he made another set of people. These are the people who have been destroyed- Came to some kind of decidion and it seems that he would show the people what he could do if they do not do right. He saved the Tatan - he created the people 4 times. He said this will be the last and he took the Tatas away, and the ones he created did not do as he wanted them to, and, as the Tatas he took across- away south- where he split himself. 
Took the largest bones left after cremating and placed them in a Basket like this  [[image]] or nice round gum-u-ta