FROST AND THUNDER (YAHYÁHAÄS).

This is the only myth in the collection in which Frost is a known

character. Wus steals Gowwá’s wife, Gowwá gets her back, then the Lok

people (clouds) steal her, Gowwá kills the Loks and rescues his wife

only to have her stolen by Yahyáhaäs, who carries her to his home under

the rocks. All the strong people in the world assemble to aid Gowwá,

but they cannot break the rocks. Then Tckumhûs, or Tsasgips, as he is

familiarly called,—a little man who looks puny and powerless,—says that

he can break the rocks. He blows on them and they fall apart.

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