{"id":1743,"date":"2023-02-11T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T15:19:54","slug":"a-bet-between-the-cooyoko-and-the-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/hopi\/a-bet-between-the-cooyoko-and-the-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bet Between The C\u00f3oyoko And The Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Al\u00edksai! In Shupa\u00falavi, north of the village, is a bluff where there is a place called C\u00f3oyoko House (C\u00f3oyok-ki). Here the C\u00f3oyoko lived. One time a Fox, who was very handsome, came along, and the C\u00f3oyoko Uncle (T\u00e1haam) was sitting on the edge of the bluff when the Fox came along. The sun had not yet risen, and the C\u00f3oyoko was sitting and waiting to watch the sunrise. “Come here,” he said to the Fox, “come to me here.” “All right,” the Fox said. and came. “Sit down, sit down with me,” the C\u00f3oyoko said, which the Fox did. Now,” the C\u00f3oyoko continued, “let<\/em> us have a contest and see upon whose song the sun will rise. The one that loses shall be killed with this knife here,” which the C\u00f3oyoko had, the Fox said. “Yes,” the C\u00f3oyoko said, “let us have a contest.” “All right,” the Fox said, “be it so. You sing first.” So the C\u00f3oyoko sang the following little song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To — ishkakolitai to – ishkakolitai
Aaaha, iiihi–
and then said to the Fox: “Now, you sing, too,” whereupon the Fox sang the following song:
Ishka! Ishka!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hereupon the C\u00f3oyoko repeated his song. The sun by this time was just about to loom up. “Now you sing again,” he said to the Fox, whereupon the latter repeated his song, and when he was singing, the sun loomed upon the horizon. So he had won the contest. “Alas!” the C\u00f3oyoko said, “well now, I have wanted it this way and you have beaten me. Be it so then.” The knife was lying by their side, so the Fox took it, approached the C\u00f3oyoko, and cut the latter’s throat. And so the latter died over a bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Al\u00edksai! In Shupa\u00falavi, north of the village, is a bluff where there is a place called C\u00f3oyoko House (C\u00f3oyok-ki). Here the C\u00f3oyoko lived. One time a Fox, who was very handsome, came along, and the C\u00f3oyoko Uncle (T\u00e1haam) was sitting on the edge of the bluff when the Fox came along. The sun had not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,376],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hopi","category-hopi-stories","tag-hopi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}