From Wasivori (near Cusarare) came giants to Nararachic to ask alms.  Tesvino they liked very much.  They worked very fast, and the Tarahumares put them to hoe and weed the corn, and gave them food and tesvino.  But the giants were fierce, and ravished the women while the latter were under the influence of the Moon; therefore the Tarahumares got very angry and they mixed a decoction made from the chilicote-tree with the corn that they gave the giants to eat, and the giants died.

Tata Dios and the Devil—­The Sheep and the Deer—­Why the Cocks Crow in the Morning [6]

Tata Dios came down into the world, and he had in his house many large jars filled with strong tesvino.  On the other side of the river Huerachic, in the big arroyos, lived the Devil.  He was very poor, and he had only one small jar with tesvino, and that was bad.  The Devil and his brother invited Tata Dios to come and drink tesvino with them.  Tata Dios went to the Devil’s house, and they gave him the jar and the drinking-gourd, and he sat down to drink; but he did not get intoxicated because there was not enough tesvino.  When he had emptied the jar, Tata Dios said:  “Now we will go to my house and drink tesvino; I have some, too.”  They accepted the invitation, and all went away together, and Tata Dios gave them a large jar full of tesvino and the drinking-gourd.  They drank much, and the Devil and his brother sang like the Mexicans, until they lay down on the ground completely overcome.  Later in the night the Devil rose, and he went to the wife of Tata Dios.  And when she awoke, she was very angry, and roused her husband, and he fought with the Devil, until Tata Dios got killed.  But after a while he rose and said to the Devil, “Now go away, go below.”  “I am going home to get my weapons,” said the Devil.  But first he went into the house of Tata Dios and robbed him of his money, and [noticing the reporter’s book] of his books and everything.  He hid all the things in his house and Tara Dios came to look for them.  Tata Dios again was very angry, and they fought until he was killed.  But this time, too, he rose and said to the Devil, “Go below,” and the Devil went below and remained there, and Tata Dios went home.

One day at dawn the people saw the lands full with sheep everywhere.  On a flat stone Tata Dios drew figures like the tracks of the deer, and from them all the deer originated.

When Tata Dios returned to heaven, he carried in his right hand a rooster, which he placed on top of a palm-tree.  The cock crowed three times while Tata Dios ascended to heaven.  After this, whenever the sun rises in the morning, the cocks on earth respond when they hear the cocks in heaven crow.

After Tata Dios had gone to heaven he never came back.  He is angry with the Tarahumares, and he wants to destroy the world, but the Virgin says:  “Let the people alone; I pity the family we left behind.”  This is the reason why the world stands.