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“Yes, Once in the not-so-distant past, beauty. There he learned the language and caverns could open there, being hidden by but yet many generations before the com- _ the history of the mysterious people, giving the lights and shadows of the rocks? How ing of the Spanish, a Paiute chief lost his them in turn the language and legends of many could open outward or inward and bride by sudden death. In his great and the Paiutes. He said that he would have never be seen behind the arrow-like pinna- overwhelming grief, he thought of the Hav- liked to remain there forever in the peace cles before them? How many ships could musuvs and their long tube of death. He and beauty of their life, but they bade him swoop down like an eagle from the beyond wished to join her, so he bade farewell to return and use his new knowledge for his on summer nights when the fires of the fur- his sorrowing people and set off to find the _ people.’ nace-sands have closed away the valley Hav-musuvs. None appeared until the "I could not help but ask the inevitable. from the eyes of the white man? How chief began to climb the almost unscaleable "Do you believe this story of the chief?’ | many Hav-musuvs could live in their eter- Panamints. Then one of the men in white "His eyes studied the wisps of smoke for nal peace away from the noise of white appeared suddenly before him with the some minutes before he answered. man's guns in their unscaleable stronghold? long tube, and motioned him back. The "T do not know. When a man is lost in “This has always been a land of mystery. chief made signs that he wished to die, and Tomesha, and the Fire God is walking Nothing can change that. Not cven white came on. The man in white made a long across the salt crust, strange dreams like man with his flying engines, for should singing whistle, and other Hav-musuvs clouds fog through his mind. No man can they come too close to the wall of the appeared. They spoke together in a strange breathe the hot breath of the Fire God and Panamints, a sharp wind like the flying tongue and then regarded the chief thought- long remain sane. Of course, the Paiutes arrow can sheer off a wing. Tomesha hides fully. Finally they made signs to him, have thought of this. No people knows the _ its secrets well even in winter, but no man making him understand that they would moods of Tomesha better than they. can pry into them when the Fire God draws take him with them. "You asked me to tell you the legend of _ the hot veil of his breath across the passes. ""Many weeks after his people had the flying ships. I have told you what the "'T must still answer your question with mourned him for dead, the Paiute chief young men of the tribe do not know, for my mind in doubt, for we speak of a weird came back to his camp. He said he had they no longer listen to the stories of the land. White man does not yet know it as been in the giant underground valley of the past. Now you ask me if I believe. I well as the Paiutes, and we have ever held Hav-musuvs, where white lights, which answer this. it in awe. It is still the forbidden Tomesha, burn night and day and never go out or “Turn around. Look behind you at that Land of the Flaming Earth.”" need any fuel, lit an ancient city of marble wall of the Panamints. How many giant (Source: FATE magazin “-ntember 1949) 50 ¢ NEXUS FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996