mission to the fraternity of the Calako. The Calako is a trinity of
two women and a man from whom the Hopi obtained the first corn, and of
whom the following legend is told:

"In the early days, before houses were built, the earth was
devastated by a whirlwind. There was then neither springs nor
streams, although water was so near the surface that it could
be found by pulling up a tuft of grass. The people had but
little food, however, and they besought Masauwuh to help
them, but he could not.

"There came a little old man, a dwarf, who said that he had
two sisters who were the wives of Calako, and it might be
well to petition them. So they prepared an altar, every man
making a _paho_, and these were set in the ground so as to
encircle a sand hillock, for this occurred before houses were
known.

"Masauwuh's brother came and told them that when Calako came
to the earth's surface wherever he placed his foot a deep
chasm was made; then they brought to the altar a huge rock,
on which Calako might stand, and they set it between the two
pahos placed for his wives.

"Then the people got their rattles and stood around the
altar, each man in front of his own paho; but they stood in
silence, for they knew no song with which to invoke this
strange god. They stood there for a long while, for they were
afraid to begin the ceremonies until a young lad, selecting
the largest rattle, began to shake it and sing. Presently a
sound like rushing water was heard, but no water was seen; a
sound also like great winds, but the air was perfectly still,
and it was seen that the rock was pierced with a great hole
through the center. The people were frightened and ran away,
all save the young lad who had sung the invocation.

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"The lad soon afterward rejoined them, and they saw that his
back was cut and bleeding and covered with splinters of yucca
and willow. The flagellation, he told them, had been
administered by Calako, who told him that he must endure this
laceration before he could look upon the beings he had
invoked; that only to those who passed through his ordeals
could Calako become visible; and, as the lad had braved the
test so well, he should thenceforth be chief