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Like many other missions, Rainy Mountain helped to foster a Christian identity that incorporated Kiowa culture. Most notably, Rainy Mountain was the place where Gotebo composed the first Kiowa hymn. The congregation celebrated its centennial in , and it remains an active and important church in Kiowa country. Mary G. Burdette, ed. Donnelley and Sons, Copyright to all of these materials is protected under United States and International law.

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There the sun is waiting to make her his wife. The girl weds the sun and has a child. Later, after arguing with her husband, the woman lowers a rope and climbs down, trying to reach her people. The angry sun throws a ring and kills his wife, leaving the child alone. He tosses the ring toward the sky. The ring falls on him and splits him in two. Now grandmother spider must raise twins. She teaches them a sacred word that helps them escape evil giants.

Then the twins kill a snake without realizing he is their grandfather. Heartbroken, the grandmother spider dies, but the twins live on for a long time. The Kiowas suffer hard times, when food is scarce. A man is out looking for food when Tai-me the sacred Sun Dance doll appears, covered with feathers. She promises to give the Kiowas whatever they want.

From this time on she will belong to the Kiowas. Another legend tells of two brothers who receive a mysterious gift of meat during a hungry winter. While one brother feels afraid of the meat, the other brother eats it and is transformed into a water beast. Kiowa storytellers recite newer legends about their forebears and their life on the plains.

They tell of a woman who saves her family by throwing hot grease at her enemies and of a skilled arrow maker who shoots his enemy right in the heart. They speak of how horses came to be and of terrible winds and storms.

The elders relive the love story of the great warrior Quoetotai and one of the wives of Many Bears. They celebrate a buffalo with horns of steel—and the hunter who kills him with one last perfect shot. One tale relates what happens to a wife who abandons her husband.

Another tale tells of some young men who ride south to find the homeland of the sun and of the spooky events that made them return to their homes and their life of hunting buffalo. The Kiowas also tell of two brothers who are captured by the Utes.

The Ute chief offers freedom if one brother can carry the other over a path of greased buffalo heads.