e with one another.
On his dying day, Suha gathered his people and foretold:
"If you ever grow arrogant with wealth, if you ever become
covetous of others' lands, if you ever make war for gain, if you
ever disgrace yourselves before Chief of the Sky Spirits--another
flood will come upon you.
"If that happens again, bad persons will never be saved; only
good persons will eventually live with the Sun-God."
Since that time, Pimas have believed Suha's prophecies; and they
never, never go onto Superstition Mountain.
But their people love to tell the story of why and how the gum-
ball ark landed on Superstition Mountain, saving Suha and his good
wife, who became the beloved ancestors of their large and important
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