Native American Legends
The Spirit Land
A Gallinomero Legend
When the flames burn low on the funeral pyres of the Gallinomero,
Indian mourners gather up handfuls of ashes and scatter them high
in air. Thus the good mount up into the air, or go to the Happy
Western Land beyond the Big Water.
But the bad Indians go to an island in the Bitter Waters, an island
naked and barren and desolate, covered only with brine-spattered
stone, swept with cold winds and the biting sea-spray.
Here they live always, breaking stone upon one another, with no
food but the broken stones and no drink but the salt sea water.
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