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entryContent[0] = " Link. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912).
Sample Story: Old Mole's Creation.
Long, long ago, before there was any earth, Old Mole burrowed underneath Somewhere, and threw up the earth which forms the world. Then Great Man created the people. But the Indians were cold. Now in the cast gleamed the white Fire Stone. Therefore Coyote journeyed eastward, and brought back the Fire Stone for the Indians. So people had fire. In the beginning, Sun had nine brothers, all flaming hot like himself. But Coyote killed the nine brothers... (read more)
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entryContent[1] = " Link. Indian Myths of South Central California by A.L. Kroeber (1907).
Sample Story: The Visit to the Dead.
A woman died. Her husband went to where she was buried. At night he slept there. The next night he went and slept there. The next night he slept there again. Then in the middle of the night his wife came out of the grave. She stood tip and brushed the earth from herself. She faced north, not looking at him, and brushed herself entirely clean. She brushed her hair clean. Then she went north. Her husband followed her ... (read more) "
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entryContent[2] = " Link. Miwok Myths by E.W. Gifford (1917).
Sample Story: The Repeopling of the World.
Chief Eagle said, \"Where is Coyote? Where is Coyote? He must try to resurrect the people. Where is Coyote? He must try to resurrect the people. What shall we do about our dead people? Who is going to help us? Tell Coyote to think.\" Thus spoke the chief. \"Tell Coyote to think intently. All human beings are dead.\" ... (read more) "
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entryContent[3] = " Link. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan [Miwok] Indians of California by C. Hart Merriam (1910).
Sample Story: The Bear and the Fawns.
Oo-soo'-ma-te the Grizzly Bear had a sister-in-law whose name was O-woo'-yah the Deer. Oo-soo'-ma-te took her to a place in the woods to show her a good kind of clover. When they found it O-woo'-yah began to scratch her head. Oo-soo'-ma-te said, \"Let me look in your head,\" and seized her by the neck and killed her, and took her liver out and put it in a basket and carried it home. ... (read more)
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entryContent[4] = " Link. Creation Myths of Primitive America by Jeremiah Curtin (1898).
Sample Story: The Finding of Fire.
In the beginning Au Mujaupa had fire very far down south on the other side of a big river. The people in this country had no real fire; they had a kind of fire, but it wasn't good. It just warmed a little; it wouldn't cook like the fire which we have now. People killed deer and fished, but they had to eat fish and venison raw. In the west people had fire, but it wouldn't cook. In the north there were many people, and in the east; but they had no fire that would cook. \"There must be fire in some place,\" said the people at Pawi; \"how can we find it?\"... (read more) "
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entryContent[5] = " Link. Maidu Texts by R.B. Dixon (1912).
Sample Story: Sun Man and Frog Woman .
Long ago Sun-Man lived, they say, in a sweat-house. From Honey-Lake Valley, looking straight to the north, it was. He went stealing, stole and carried off children. The Sun lived there, together with his sister. Their house was covered all over with ice. And when he stole children from all about, and brought them thither, no one could do anything to him. They were unable to crawl inside, could not crawl up to the smoke-hole, could do nothing to him. So, when they could do nothing to him, he became more arrogant. And the people from all countries were seeking to catch him and kill him, but they couldn't kill him. And he went to the north, going off again to steal. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[6] = " Link. Yana Texts by Edward Sapir (1910).
Sample Story: Loon Woman.
At a lake near Hat creek, lived Loon Woman. She had no husband. Every man that came along she killed; she would tell them, \"I love you.\" The man would stay with her, then she would cut out his heart, dry it, and tie a string on it. She had treated ten people thus, had made beads out of their hearts, and wore them as a necklace. She was a nice-looking woman, living all alone. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[7] = " Link. Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales by R.B. Dixon (1908-9).
Sample Story: Search for Fire .
After Hawk had been killed, and the flood had subsided, people found that all fires were put out all over the world. Nothing could be cooked, but for a time people did not trouble about it. Then after a few days they began to talk about it, and sent Owl to Mount Shasta to look all over the world and see if he could find any trace of fire. Owl took a feather blanket and went. Lizard watched him go, and told the people how he was getting on. After a while, when Owl did not come back, people thought he was dead. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[8] = " Link. Some Western Shoshoni Myths by Julian H. Steward (1943).
Sample Story: Coyote and the Bear Cubs.
One day Wolf said to his brother, Coyote. \"I would like some seeds. I like them better than meat. Go to your aunt's place and get some for me.\" Coyote said, \"We have no relatives.\" Wolf said, \"Yes; we have. You go over there and see.\" Coyote went out to find the seeds and met two girl cousins, two bear cubs. They looked like twins. They were gathering seeds. Coyote talked to them for a little while. Then he choked both of them; they died. He laid them side by side and covered them up with a rabbit-skin blanket. Then he started to gather seeds. About sundown, Coyote's aunt, Bear, came to where the girls were. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[9] = " Link. The Eskimo of Siberia by Waldemar Bogoras (1913).
Sample Story: The One Without Arms.
A man who had no food lived by angling. One time he went to the sea to catch some vakhna fish. He threw his fish-line into the water and drew out a small Fish-Woman no longer than a finger. He was much frightened. \"Oh,\" said he, \"it is something evil! I will throw it back into the water.\" - \"Do not throw me back!\" said Fish-Woman, \"rather take me for your wife!\" - \"How can I take you for my wife, when you are so small?\" ... (read more) "
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entryContent[10] = " Link. Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo by Henry Rink (1875).
Sample Story: Katerparsuk.
Katerparsuk was a poor orphan boy. When he grew up he was anxious to get on in the world, because nobody wanted to take care of him and help him along. At length he resolved, by his own efforts, to try to make himself a kayak; but, nobody being willing to lend him a knife, he first tried to work with stone tools, and later on with shells. In the same place there happened to live a wicked man, who, instead of pitying the poor boy, took delight in annoying and terrifying him. For this purpose he disguised himself in a bearskin, and stole up behind Katerparsuk, growling like a bear. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[11] = " Link. Eskimo Folk-Tales by Knud Rasmussen (1921).
Sample Story: Imarasugssuag, Who Ate His Wives.
It is said that the great Ímarasugssuaq was wont to eat his wives. He fattened them up, giving them nothing but salmon to eat, and nothing at all to drink. Once when he had just lost his wife in the usual way, he took to wife the sister of many brothers, and her name was Misána. And after having taken her to wife, he began fattening her up as usual. One day her husband was out in his kayak. And she had grown so fat that she could hardly move, but now she managed with difficulty to tumble down from the bench to the floor, crawled to the entrance, dropped down into the passage way, and began licking the snow which had drifted in. ... (read more)
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entryContent[12] = " Link. Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell (1892).
Sample Story: The Bad Wife.
There was once a man who had but one wife. He was not a chief, but a very brave warrior. He was rich, too, so he could have had plenty of wives if he wished; but he loved his wife very much, and did not want any more. He was very good to this woman. She always wore the best clothes that could be found. If any other woman had a fine buckskin dress, or something very pretty, the man would buy it for her. It was summer. The berries were ripe, and the woman kept saying to her husband, \"Let us go and pick some berries for winter.\" \"No,\" replied the man. \"It is dangerous now. The enemy is travelling all around.\" ... (read more) "
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entryContent[13] = " Link. The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell (1901).
Sample Story: The First Corn.
A long time ago there lived in the Pawnee village a young man who was a great gambler. Every day he played at sticks, and he was almost always unlucky. Sometimes he would lose everything that he had, and would even lose things belonging to his father. His father had often scolded him about gambling, and had told him that he ought to stop it. There were two things that he never staked; these two things were his shield and his lance. One day he played sticks for a long time, and when he got through he had lost everything that he had except these two things. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[14] = " Link. Jicarilla Apache Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard (1911).
Sample Story: The Man Who Helped The Eagles.
An Apache was very poor and went about among the Pueblo Indians picking up the food they threw away. That was all he had to eat. Over by the river there was an eagle nest on top of a sheer cliff. The Pueblo Indians treated the Apache well giving him plenty of food. He went with them to the eagle's nest. They tied a rope to him and lowered him down where the two little eagles were sitting. He took off the rope and stayed there with the eagles. Those above pulled up the rope just by itself. In vain, they let down the rope to him. He remained with the eagles. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[15] = " Link. Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa (1901).
Sample Story: Inktomi and the Muskrat.
Beside a white lake, beneath a large grown willow tree, sat Iktomi on the bare ground. The heap of smouldering ashes told of a recent open fire. With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over some delicious boiled fish. Fast he dipped his black horn spoon into the soup, for he was ravenous. Iktomi had no regular meal times. Often when he was hungry he went without food. Well hid between the lake and the wild rice, he looked nowhere save into the pot of fish. Not knowing when the next meal would be, he meant to eat enough now to last some time. \"How, how, my friend!\" said a voice out of the wild rice. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[16] = " Link. Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin (1916).
Sample Story: The Forgotten Ear of Corn.
An Arikara woman was once gathering corn from the field to store away for winter use. She passed from stalk to stalk, tearing off the ears and dropping them into her folded robe. When all was gathered she started to go, when she heard a faint voice, like a child's, weeping and calling: \"Oh, do not leave me! Do not go away without me.\" The woman was astonished. \"What child can that be?\" she asked herself. \"What babe can be lost in the cornfield?\" ... (read more) "
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entryContent[17] = " Link. The Algonquin Legends of New England by C.G. Leland (1884).
Sample Story: Of Glooskap's Birth and of his Brother Malsum the Wolf.
Now the great lord Glooskap, who was worshiped in after-days by all the Wabanaki, or children of light, was a twin with a brother. As he was good, this brother, whose name was Malsumsis, or Wolf the younger, was bad. Before they were born, the babes consulted to consider how they had best enter the world. And Glooskap said, \"I will be born as others are.\" But the evil Malsumsis thought himself too great to be brought forth in such a manner, and declared that he would burst through his mother's side. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[18] = " Link. Seneca Indian Myths by Jeremiah Curtin (1922).
Sample Story: The Adventures of Wolf-Marked.
A brother and sister lived together. The brother loved his sister so well that he did not want her to work; he did all the work himself. Each morning when he was starting off to hunt he said to her. \"You mustn't go out,\" and he fastened the door. When he came home in the evening he cooked and after they had eaten he said to his sister, \"Lie down and sleep, I am going to a council.\" The sister never knew when her brother came home, but when she wakened in the morning he was cooking. The girl didn't like to be fastened in, she said nothing, but all the time she was thinking how she could get out of the house. At last a night came when her brother started off forgetting to fasten the door, then she determined to follow him to the council. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[19] = " Link. Coos Texts by Leo J. Frachtenberg (1913).
Sample Story: The Revenge of the Sky People.
A man lived in Kiweet. He had an elder brother, who was always building canoes. Once he was working on a canoe, when a man came there to him. \"What do you do with your canoe after you finish it?\" \"I always sell my canoes.\" He kept on working, with his head bent down, while the man was talking to him. Alongside the man who was building lay his dog. All at once he hit the neck of the man who was building, and cut off his head. He took his head home. The man who was building did not come home, and they were looking for him. He lay in the canoe dead, without a head. The little dog was barking alongside of the canoe. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[20] = " Link. Chinook Texts by Franz Boas (1894).
Sample Story: The Elk Hunter.
A youth was in the habit of setting traps. He always killed bears. One year he had set his traps as usual, and when he went to look after them he heard a woman crying in a trap. He reached her. Her hand was caught in the trap. She was a pretty woman. Her hair was brown, her feet and her hands were tattooed. He opened the trap and took her hand out of it. She said to him: \"You will excel all the people. You have caught even me in your trap. You will be a great hunter.\" The youth said: \"I shall carry you to our town.\" ... (read more) "
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entryContent[21] = " Link. Kwakiutl Tales by Franz Boas (1910).
Sample Story: The Mink Legend.
The future mother of Born-to-be-the-Sun was weaving wool, facing the rear of the house. Then the sun was in the sky, and--the sun was shining through the holes in the house; and the rays struck her back while she sat facing the rear of the house, on her bed. Thus she became pregnant. There was no husband of this woman. She gave birth, and Born-to-be-the-Sun (Mink) became a child. Therefore it had immediately the name Born-to-be-the-Sun, because it was known that its mother became pregnant by the sun shining on her back. Then Born-to-be-the-Sun was fighting with his friend Bluebird. Then Bluebird made fun of Born-to-be-the-Sun because he had no father. Then Born-to-be-the-Sun cried in the house to his mother, telling his mother that he was called an orphan because he had no father. Therefore his mother said to him that his father was the Sun. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[22] = " Link. Tsimshian Texts by Franz Boas (1902).
Sample Story: Squirrel.
There were four children who were always shooting squirrels. They killed them all the time. Then they dried their skins and put away their meat. They did so at the foot of a large spruce tree--they did so for a long time all the year round. Then they had killed all the squirrels. Only the chief of the squirrels and his daughter were left. She was very white. Now, a boy went out and came to the foot of the great spruce tree. He looked upward, and saw a little white squirrel running round the tree. When it had gotten to the other side of the tree, behold, he saw that she was a young woman. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[23] = " Link. Tlingit Myths and Texts by John R. Swanton (1909).
Sample Story: Raven.
No one knows just how the story of Raven really begins, so each starts from the point where he does know it. Here it was always begun in this way. Raven was first called Kit-ka'ositiyi-qâ-yît (\"Son of Kit-ka'ositiyi-qâ\"). When his son was born, Kit-ka'ositiyi-qâ tried to instruct him and train him in every way and, after he grew up, told him he would give him strength to make a world. After trying in all sorts of ways Raven finally succeeded. Then there was no light in this world, but it was told him that far up the Nass was a large house in which some one kept light just for himself. Raven thought over all kinds of plans for getting this light into the world and finally he hit on a good one. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[24] = " Link. Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians by John R. Swanton (1929).
Sample Story: A Strange Turkey.
A Turkey used to catch men and carry them up to the sky. When they discovered this, many people gathered at the busk ground to find someone who could kill the Turkey when it came. Black Snake was present, and they said to him, \"You might do it.\" \"All right,\" he answered. Then they deliberated to find another whom they might ask. A Puppy was there, and they said, \"You might try this.\" He, too, said, \"All right.\" So these two were chosen to kill the Turkey.... (read more) "
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entryContent[25] = " Link. When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends by Florence Stratton (1936).
Sample Story: The Plant That Grows in Trees.
The mistletoe is a strange little plant. It does not live on the ground with other plants, but always is found growing up in the limbs of trees by itself. Only the birds can reach the little white berries which appear both in summer and winter. That is why the mistletoe plant is found only in trees. And a bird once put it there because it had pity on the mistletoe. There was a time when the mistletoe plant did grow on the ground as a small bushy plant. One day when it was growing on the ground a bird called by Indians the thunder bird, which they thought caused the thunder, lit on the mistletoe. The thunder bird was hungry because it could find no berries on other plants. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[26] = " Link. Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney (1900).
Sample Story: The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting.
The Rabbit was so boastful that he would claim to do whatever he saw anyone else do, and so tricky that he could usually make the other animals believe it all. Once he pretended that he could swim in the water and eat fish just as the Otter did, and when the others told him to prove it he fixed up a plan so that the Otter himself was deceived. Soon afterward they met again and the Otter said, \"I eat ducks sometimes.\" Said the Rabbit, \"Well, I eat ducks too.\" The Otter challenged him to try it; so they went up along the river until they saw several ducks in the water and managed to get near without being seen. The Rabbit told the Otter to go first. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[27] = " Link. Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories by Charles Lummis (1910).
Sample Story: The Coyote and the Thunder-Knife.
Once upon a time an old Coyote-father took a walk away from home; for in that season of the year his babies were so peevish they would not let him sleep. It happened that a Locust was making pottery, under a tree; and every time she moved the molding-spoon around the soft clay jar, she sang a song. The Coyote, coming near and hearing, thought: \"Now that is the very song I need to put my óo-un to sleep.\" And following the sound he came to the tree, and found Cheech-wée-deh at work. But she had stopped singing. \"Locust-friend,\" said he, \"come teach me that song, so that I can soothe my children to sleep.\" ... (read more) "
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entryContent[28] = " Link. Tales of the Cochiti Indians by Ruth Benedict (1932).
Sample Story: The Sun's Children.
Once a girl went out from Cochiti to pick up piñons. She stayed several days and gathered a great many. One day the Sun said, \"I want this girl for myself. I wish to possess her. I will go and speak to her.\" She was a very fine looking girl and she wore big buckskin puttees and a manta and belt, and a white manta over her shoulders, and carried a little basket for piñons on her arm. So the Sun came down to speak to her. He was a handsome man ... (read more) "
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entryContent[29] = " Link. Yaqui Myths and Legends by Ruth Warner Giddings (1959).
Sample Story: The Walking Stone.
There was a beautiful young woman by the name of Sawali Wiikit, or, \"Little Yellow Bird,\" who had lovely, long hair, and eyes as shining as a star. But there was one thing about her that was bad. She was disobedient, and she liked to walk about with her friends at night without asking permission of either her father or her mother. She would walk about until dawn and then come home to sleep. One day, very early in the morning, Sawali Wiikit came into the house to sleep. But before she could lie down her mother spoke to her, \"Listen to me, Sawali Wiikit, I don't want you to walk about like this either in the nighttime or in the daytime. I want to you to help me with the things of the household. It would be well for you to stop walking about day and night.\" Sawali Wiikit did not reply, but she planned in her heart to continue on her midnight walks... (read more) "
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entryContent[30] = " Link. In the Beginning: A Navaho Creation Myth by Frank Goldtooth (1953).
Sample Story: The Man With Four Names.
Once there was a man with four names. His first name was Looking-for-Favors or náxodidáhí. His second name was One-Who-Goes-Back-to-Look-at-Fish or ’adáńł’íní. His third name was Home-Made-of-Down (Feathers) or ’ac’ os be·be yaní. His fourth and last name was Chap-all-Over-His-Skin or Rough-Surface, ká·dič’iží. This man with four names was wandering around with nothing to do for he had no home and no friends, except his turkey. The Wind People and some others who were wandering around said, “We will help him. He is a wanderer with no home.” ... (read more) "
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entryContent[31] = " Link. Zuñi Folk Tales by F.H. Cushing (1901).
Sample Story: How the Coyote Danced with the Blackbirds.
One late autumn day in the times of the ancients, a large council of Blackbirds were gathered, fluttering and chattering, on the smooth, rocky slopes of Gorge Mountain, northwest of Zuñi. Like ourselves, these birds, as you are well aware, congregate together in autumn time, when the harvests are ripe, to indulge in their festivities before going into winter quarters; only we do not move away, while they, on strong wings and swift, retreat for a time to the Land of Everlasting Summer. Well, on this particular morning they were making a great noise and having a grand dance, and this was the way of it: They would gather in one vast flock, somewhat orderly in its disposition, on the sloping face of Gorge Mountain,--the older birds in front, the younger ones behind,--and down the slope, chirping and fluttering, they would hop, hop, hop, singing:... (read more) "
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entryContent[32] = " Link. The Traditions of the Hopi by H.R. Voth (1905).
Sample Story: How Tatcioqto Wedded an Oraibi Maiden.
In Oraíbi the people were living. At the place where Tuwá-mana now lives, right east of the public plaza, lived a maiden who persistently refused to marry any of the young men of the village, although many of them were wooing her. North of the village at Achámali, lived an old woman with her grandson. \"My grandmother,\" he said to her one time. \"What is it?\" she answered. \"Yes,\" he said, \"I am going to visit that maiden there in the village, and see whether she will not marry me.\" \"Alas!\" she replied, \"she will not want you,\" \"I am going to try it anyhow,\" he answered. So one evening, after they had eaten, he put his wildcat robe on, of which at that time nearly every young man had one, and proceeded to the village. It was moonlight. ... (read more) "
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entryContent[33] = " Link. Tales of the North American Indians by Sith Thompson (1929).
Sample Story: The Star Husband.
At the time of which my story speaks people were camping just as we are here. In the winter time they used birch bark wigwams. All the animals could then. talk together. Two girls, who were very foolish, talked foolishly and were in no respect like the other girls of their tribe, made their bed out-of-doors, and slept right out under the stars. The very fact that they slept outside during the winter proves how foolish they were. One of these girls asked the other, \"With what star would you like to sleep, the white one or the red one?\" The other girl answered, \"I'd like to sleep with the red star.\" \"Oh, that's all right,\" said the first one, \"I would like to sleep with the white star. He's the younger; the red is the older.\" Then the two girls fell asleep. When they awoke, they found themselves in another world, the star world. ... (read more) "
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