The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

WHO BUILT THE S UN?
As the birds and beasts came forth, they at once betook
themselves to the woods or to the plains, and there made
their abode. The Great Spirit, in pity for their helplessness, gave them the domestic animals, and these have
always remained with them as their servants.
At the time the earth was first peopled, it was very
small, and there existed neither sun, moon, nor stars. As
the light was quite insufficient for the needs of the inhabitants, a council of all the old men was held to ascertain
if something could not be done to remedy this most serious
inconvenience, and they finally decided that it was necessary, not only to have a sun, moon, and stars, but also a
firmament in which to place them.
This decision having been arrived at, each nation was
allotted its share of the work of construction.
The Navajoes preferred their claim for the first choice, as
they were the most daring, and were the first to take the
risk of venturing forth from the cave.
The old men recognized the justice of their claim, and
to them was assigned the task of building the sun; but as
the Navajoes knew nothing of the art of house-building,
the Zunis volunteered to help, to the extent of erecting
for them a building of sufficient size to serve for a workshop. This being completed, the Navajoes shut themselves
up with the materials they had gathered together for tools,
and went to work at their task.
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