F

Farming myths and songs, 42 –43, 75 –77, 111 , 190 , 305 n4, 305 –307n6, 308 nn10, 12

Fasting, for purification, 174

Father of Tobacco, 98 , 99 , 101

Feather Braided Chief, 154 –156

"Feather Braided Chief and the Gambler," 124

Feather-corn gruel, 155 , 160

Feeler Mountain. See Ta:tkam Mountain

Fenton, William, 296 n18

Fewkes, J. W., 9 , 291 n3, 296 n18

Fighting weapons, 208

Fire, creation by man-gods, 53

First Born, 58 –62, 302 n9. See also Earth Doctor

"First Creation," 46 –53

"First Creation" (Thin Leather), 53 –58

First creation, fate of, 75

First day, events of, 49

Fish, creation of, 79

Flat-headed corn, 89

"Floating gap," as feature of oral histories, 3 , 5

Flood, 67 –74

as caused by baby tears, 67

cause of, 303 n4

destruction by, 72

myth of, 139

rebirth of gods after, 67 –68

Flood water, turning into ocean, 73 c

Flute Lure myth, 312 n6, 319 n7

Fog

creation of, 223

god of, 259

role in irrigation, 136

Folktale, The (Thompson), 17

Font, Pedro, 31

Font text, 31 –43

"The Bitter Man" (Governor of Uturituc), 33 –36

"The Bitter Man" (Manje's Guides), 37 –38

"The Drinker" (Governor of Uturituc), 39 –43

Fontana, Bernard, 304 n1

Food, creation of, 48

Four, significance of the number, 84 c

Frog, 322 n23

Frog Mountain, 231 , 322 n23

Fruit picking, dream sign about, 82

Future, Siuuhu's predictions about, 93