The hero is Rain. He drowns his mother, then sends his sister to Kówe,
who in other myths is described as having control of all the springs in
the world: “She lives under the water, she is in every spring. She is
our grandmother. If she gets mad she can dry up the deepest water.” The
sister marries Djáudjau. Djáudjau visits his brother-in-law, and on
leaving he gets green twigs, rubs himself with them, then rubs the
twigs on the ground, and says: “I have brought away some of my
brother-in-law’s bad thoughts; now, Earth, take them all.” He talks to
the mountains and forgets his brother-in-law. A description of a
similar act appears in several Modoc myths.