Myths and Legends of California, This Zuni myth typifies the Indian tribes of the southwest in the beauty of their language and their insight. "In the beginning of the New-making, the ancient fathers lived successively in four caves in the Four fold-containing-earth. The first was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time; the second, dark as the night in the stormy season; the third, like a valley in starlight; the fourth, with a light like the dawning. Then they came up in the night-shine into the World of Knowing and Seeing." Some of the myths included are The Gods and the Six Regions, How Old Man Above Created the World- Shastika (Cal.), The Course of the Sun--Sia (New Mexico), The Foxes and the Sun--Yurok (near Klamath River, Cal.), The Cloud People--Sia (New Mexico), Rain Song--Sia (New Mexico), and The Boy and the Beast--Pima (Arizona)