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The Quarrel Between Thunder and Wind, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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8. The Quarrel Between Thunder and Wind as told by Lawrence Mithlo

8.1.

Now this [is] another of the things that happened long ago when they were creating the earth.

8.2.

The Wind and the Thunder were to work together.

8.3.

The reason that they separated [and] got angry at each other [was that] the Thunder spoke thus to the Wind:

8.4.

Then the Wind spoke thus to him:

8.5.

Then the Wind went far away from him to the end of the earth.

8.6.

Then the Thunder, he who had said: "I alone do good," caused much rain but it was always very hot.

8.7.

Then he continually set up feathers.

8.8.

Then he did not feel right about it.

8.9.

Then the Wind came back to him.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

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The Quarrel Between Thunder and Wind, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938