There's a god on each side.
Now the Holy Young Man
Is the god on top of the black mountain,
With his black notched stick,
The implement of his dance, his magic wand.
There's a god on each side.
Now the Holy Young Woman
Is the god on top of the blue mountain,
With her blue notched stick,
The implement of her dance, her magic wand.
226. This song is said to refer to that part of the myth where it is
related that the prophet, flying from the Ute, climbed a hill which was
transformed into a mountain. (Paragraph 38.) Each mountain was supposed
to have a holy one on it, who could, by means of his notched stick,
produce the metamorphosis. The mountains were not necessarily colored
black and blue, but are thus described to indicate that they lay north
and south of the prophet's path. (Paragraph 171.)