Native American Legends
Big Head and Goat Horn
A Hopi Legend
Halíksai! In Oraíbi they were living. East of the
Kwan kiva a youth lived, by the name of Big Head (Wuyákqötö).
Away south are the Hopi Buttes, and on the westernmost butte lived
Goat Horn (Chiwákala). These two were friends, but as they
lived so far apart they did not visit each other often; but one
time Goat Horn visited his friend in Oraíbi. After they had
eaten and talked together, towards evening Goat Horn wanted to return
home. "My friend," he said to Big Head. "What is
it?" the latter replied. "You must come and visit me sometime,
too," Goat Horn said; whereupon he went home.
After a while Big Head visited his friend, and stayed all night
there. In the morning Goat Horn killed a goat for his friend, cut
it in two, and gave him one-half, which Big Head took with him to
the village; and that is the reason why Hopi, when they kill a goat,
cut it up.
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