MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA
They became birds. He took a stick and broke it into
pieces. Out of the small end he made fishes and placed
them in the mountain streams. Of the middle of the
stick, he made all the animals except the grizzly bear.
Frem the big end of the stick came the grizzly bear,
who was made master of all. Grizzly was large and
strong and cunning. When the earth was new he
walked upon two feet and carried a large club. So
strong was Grizzly that Old Man Above feared the
creature he had made. Therefore, so that he might be
safe, Chareya hollowed out the pyramid of ice and
snow as a tepee. There he lived for thousands of snows.
The Indians knew he lived there because they could
see the smoke curling from the smoke hole of his tepee.
When the pale-face came, Old Man Above went away.
There is no longer any smoke from the smoke hole.
White men call the tepee Mount Shasta.
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