There was his fire still burning near the heart and now the monster began to writhe in pain and Iceye'ye began cutting away on the heart, whereupon very shortly he broke the stone knife.
And now Iceye'ye started a fire with his flint, and smoke drifted up through the monster’s openings. Presently Iceye'ye arrived at the heart and cut off slabs of fat and threw them to the people. Thus he dashed right into the monster’s mouth.įrom there he walked along down the throat of the monster. Then Iceye'ye said, “Now you inhale me, for already you have swallowed all the people, so swallow me too lest I become lonely.” Now the Monster inhaled like a mighty wind. Presently Iceye'ye shook the grass to and fro and shouted again, “Monster! We are going to inhale each other.” Powerfully and noisily he drew in his first breath and the great monster just swayed and quivered. Iceye'ye had on his back a pack consisting of five stone knives, some pure pitch, and a flint fire making set. Iceye'ye shouted to him, “Oh Monster we are going to inhale each other!” The big eyes of the monster roved around looking all over for Iceye'ye but did not find him, because Iceye'ye’s body was painted with clay to achieve a perfect protective coloring in the grass. Never before in his life had he seen anything like it never such a large thing – away off somewhere melting into the horizon was its gigantic body. He quickly hid himself in the grass and gazed at it. From there he came along up and over the ridges. There he tied himself with rope to three mountains. Along the way he took a good bath saying to himself, “Lest I make myself repulsive to his taste,” and then dressed himself all up, “Lest he will vomit me up or spit me out.” He was busy at this when someone shouted to him, “Why are you bothering with that? All of the people are gone” “Well,” said Iceye'ye to himself, “then I’ll stop doing this because I was doing it for the people, and now I’ll go along too.įrom there he went along upstream, by way of the Salmon River country. Iceye'ye (pronounced 'it-see-yi-yi') was building a fish ladder at Celilo.
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